July 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Discovery Channel’s Pitchmen, the 12-part series that featured the late Billy Mays Jr and his business partner, Anthony ‘Sully’ Sullivan, will be back for a second season. Because of the success of the series first season, and as a tribute to Mays’ legacy, the show will continue. Pitchmen took viewers behind the curtain into the billion dollar infomercial industry, as Mays and Sullivan helped everyday men and women bring their inventions to the masses.
Discovery Channel is developing the format of season two with Mays’ son, Billy Mays III, Anthony Sullivan and Thom Beers, CEO of Original Productions. More information will be announced as it becomes available. A premiere date for season two of Pitchmen has not yet been set.
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June 29th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Billy Mays, the television pitchman whose boisterous pitching of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50. Mays’ wife found him unresponsive Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 am. The initial autopsy indicated that Mays died due to heart disease.
“Although Billy lived a public life, we don’t anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days,” Deborah Mays said in a statement. “Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times.”
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June 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Discovery Channel has greenlit the series Garage Wars, which pits mechanics against one another to find the best fix-it shop in America. The series has been given a 10-episode order by Discovery.
Garage Wars will follow garages in three different cities as they compete in a bracketed competition. Each week, the two teams will be given a box filled with identical parts – such as motors, pieces to a hovercraft or other items. Their challenge is to build a vehicle better than their competitor’s in just four days. At the end of the episode, the machines will be put to the test and judged by a panel of experts.
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June 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Discovery Channel is bringing back Monster Garage. The new show version of Monster Garage will move the production to Detroit and rename the series MG: Motor City. The show will feature two bike designers and builders leading a team of fabricators, mechanics and welders who, with only seven days and $3,000, have to turn average vehicles into outrageous contraptions of fantasy and function.
The first episode in the new MG: Motor City will feature an antique Model T being transformed into a “Gasser,” a term coined in the 1950s when people modified their cars. It will premiere in the fall.
April 7th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Welcome to TV On DVD. This week’s releases include the third volume of Ben 10 Alien Force’s first season, the seventh season of Beverly Hills 90210, Discovery’s fourth season of Deadliest Catch, the first volume of Dynasty’s fourth season, Davey and Goliath: the Lost Episodes and Peanuts: Snoopy’s Reunion. You can pick up all of this week’s releases and more at The TV Remote’s TV Show Shop.
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March 27th, 2009 | 5 Comments
The guys behind Mighty Putty, the Big City Slider Station, the Swivel Sweeper and the FoodSaver now have their own Thom Beers-produced reality show, and it’s not an infomercial.
Discovery is set to air the 13-part series Pitchmen on April 15. It will feature infomercial mavens Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan taking “miracle-product” pitches from inventors all over the world. The series is produced by Original Productions, with Beers, Mays, Sullivan, Philip D. Segal and Chris Wilson serving as executive producers. Chris Rantamaki will handle executive producing duties for Discovery.
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