If you’re familiar with “Pawn Stars” – HISTORY’s highest rated show – then you’re familiar with shop owner Rick Harrison and his quirky family. You’re familiar with them, but you don’t really know who they are yet. If you read … Read More +
Tag Archives: Auction Hunters
Caroline Ashleigh Blog: Cash ‘n’ Cari ‘repurposing’ HGTV
In early 2010, TV talent scouts were looking for a female estate liquidator for a reality television show. One of those executives happened to land on Cari Cucksey’s website, called her, and the rest, shall we say, is Her-story… Soon … Read More +
Caroline Ashleigh Blog: Welcome to Reality TV in Detroit City
If you haven’t figured out by now, I’m fascinated with reality TV shows that feature buying and selling of art and antiques, from reluctant estate sellers, to hard core pawn brokers. Especially ones in Detroit, Michigan. This business is known … Read More +
Antiques Roadshow Announces Six New 2011 Tour Cities
This summer, Antiques Roadshow will once again crisscross the country in search of new treasures for Season 16 of PBS’s most watched show.The 2011 Tour stops are: Eugene, Ore. …………. June 4, 2011El Paso, Texas ……….. June 18, 2011Minneapolis, Minn. ….. July … Read More +
Enter to win one of two American Pickers Season One DVD sets
Starting Jan. 1, we’re giving contestants of the Antique Trader Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes a chance to win one of two copies of American Pickers: The Complete Season 1 DVD set Join Frank and Mike on their cross-country adventures with your … Read More +
Asheford Institute of Antiques films TV pilot for fall 2011
The field of antiques-related television shows will add at least one more in the fall as experts from the Asheford Institute of Antiques (AIA) team up to roll-out a half-hour pilot TV show tentatively scheduled for release in the fall … Read More +
Caroline Ashleigh Blog – This Isn’t Your Grandmother’s Antiquing…
Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are once again searching the back roads, junkyards, and filled-to-the-brim barns in America for “rusty gold.” American Pickers, the No. 1 new cable series of 2010, returned for new episodes of its second season earlier … Read More +
Caroline Ashleigh Blog: “Cash ‘n’ Cari” Premiering in January on HGTV
Adding to the new reality television shows aimed to please antiques and collectibles enthusiasts that I have been writing about in my former blogs, Cash ‘n’ Cari, premiers on HGTV January 2nd from 10:00 to 10:30 p.m. Read the full … Read More +
Your guide to all next gen antiques-themed TV shows
The following two items complimented a longer article in the Dec. 22 edition on SPIKE-TV’s new hit show Auction Hunters. Billed as the West coast’s answer to American Pickers, Auction Hunters follows the exploits of California’s Allen Haff and Ton … Read More +
‘Auctioneers’ will expose the auction business and teach you something too
Eric Bradley Auctioneers, the new reality TV series debuting Saturday on The Learning Channel (from the folks who brought you Jon & Kate Plus 8 and Mythbusters) is set to expose the auction business in a way few outsiders have … Read More +