HEY, TV Production Companies! How about a change?
Posted by Barry Flett on 9th Aug 2023
Reality TV has touched on the antiques and collectibles business, but TV production companies are missing a huge market that they should have long since realized exists.
There is obviously a large market for vintage themed reality TV shows such as American Pickers, Storage Wars, and a long list of vintage related shows that are running on assorted networks, not to mention another long list of shows which have come and gone (though some have reached temporary immortality by way of re-runs).
But, we are growing tired of all this "reality"...
Now, it has been established that a substantial market for a vintage themed shows exists, that is obvious.
But we vintage loving folks also enjoy more than "reality" themed shows.
We all watch fictional productions, from legal dramas, assorted romantic comedies, other dramas of all sorts, action shows, and on and on...
We are part of the general viewing public, after all.
So, I pose a question to TV production companies out there....
How about a FICTIONAL show about the antiques business?
Or are we stuck with trying to find and watch reruns of Lovejoy ?
And while we are on the topic of Lovejoy...
Being the writer and general creative sort I am, I have several ideas, including a fairly fleshed out one that is essentially a modernized cross between (now imagine this).....
It would be good my friends, very good...just like the antiques business itself, it would have unique characters galore, twists, turns, shocks, and surprises, not to mention inside information, jokes, etc, geared to those in the world of vintage.
It will be one of those shows where there are times you want to turn away, but just can't.
So how about it, all you TV execs out there? When do we get our own truly fictional shows?