There was a second sort of Hoarders and Antiques Roadshow crossover that piloted on A&E a while back called Dirty Money. It even starred Matt Paxton of Hoarders fame, so not surprisingly it was closer to Hoarders than Antiques Roadshow.
In it, the Paxinator went to a hoarder’s house to see what kind of salvageable and sellable antiques he could find in it. There was a beautiful Persian rug in one room…but it was all but destroyed by cat pee so it was worthless. (Choice line from Matt: “This smells like urine. And I work with urine every day.”) An apparently valuable wine collection hadn’t been stored properly so it was junk too. IIRC he did find a stash of designer dresses from the 1960’s that eventually sold for thousands; somehow those did not get moldy or shredded.
I think the pilot is somewhere on the A&E site. Matt says that he doesn’t know if A&E is going to pick up the show yet, although they seemed positive about it. (Matt and I are Facebook friends for what it’s worth, so that’s where I’m getting that info.) The pilot is certainly worth checking out if you’re a Hoarders fan.
Oh jeez. I can totally see how that would make a great show. But it would feed into the desperate dreams of hoarders everywhere and greatly increase their difficulty letting go. I hope it never sees the light of day.
I love Matt, but is he an antiques expert? I hope he brings one along. I’d love to see his partner a Franklin Pangborn type who swoons dead away when entering a hoarder’s house and stepping on a sailcat.
Oh, I forgot to mention the sneaky part of the show. The hoarder didn’t get to keep the money. The deal was that Matt cleaned the house for free, then sold anything he could find in there for expenses and to pay his crew. It was kind of like Clean House on overdrive.
Eve, I can’t remember if he had an antiques expert on-site. He took the dresses and some other items to an appraiser, although they didn’t show that on camera. I think if A&E picks up the show, that part might shown in future episodes. I’ll have to ask Matt next time he joins our live-blogging crew how the negotiations are going. I’ll also have to pitch my show idea to him: Heavy Hoardervention Wars, where overweight drug-addicted hoarders battle to win the contents of dead people’s storage lockers.
Make the host Michael Galanes from “Little Miss Perfect” and we can put GLBT equality back 20 years with just one season!
ETA: I agree with you about the Kenos. Not my usual type, but there’s just something so engaging about their almost breathless excitement when they spy out a really good piece of furniture on Roadshow…
This show demands to be watched on DVR. Fox shows like this are damn near ruined by the CONSTANT suspense-to-commercial moments. Every time they get ready to say anything substantial they cut to commercial. I realize they are trying to trap you into watching through the commercials but do Americans really need to have false drama injected into interesting shows in order to get them (us) to watch?
The show is interesting but I can’t watch it live ever again. There is only MAYBE 30-35 minutes of content here stretched out into an hour long show. It’s horrible.
Oh, Rembrandt guy and his wife had to be faking their relationship dynamic for television. There is no way a guy is going to put up with a wife that acts like such a raging c**t all the time.
Those dudes from Metropolis came across as total douchebags and struck me as completely unprofessional with all their sighing and moaning because the guy didn’t want to sell his super rare comics for, what I believe to be, lowball offers. Professionals don’t behave like that.
I felt like there was something amiss with that entire scene though. I have a REALLY hard time believing that a guy who works in the comic book industry is just going to have Amazing Fantasy 15 lying around in a neoprene sleeve in his apt. Same for the Hulk #1 (which, contrary to the Keno Bros was NOT the 1st appearance of the Hulk). A real Hulk collector would have paid far more than those douches were offering, even with the restoration job. Same for the AF 15. Something seemed off about the whole thing.
Additionally, what was with that jacket he was wearing throughout the episode?
It came off to me as the guy has his own crap comic that he was using the show to try and pimp out. The jacket looked like it was based on the costume of the character he created which, again, looked like some 90’s Image crap.
Next up, collectors who gather more useless stuff through sexual favors: Whoring Hoarders
And don’t miss the Swedish version: Whoring Hoarders Börk, börk, börk
I finally saw it. I found the brother’s resemblance to Data from STNG very distracting.
I disagree completely. Every time I watch hoarders I wonder why nobody in their family has stood up to them.
Sure, he paid $3,000 for a painting which turned out to be worth $10,000. But their total for worthwhile goods was what, $30,000? Do you really think he hasn’t secretly spent more than that? And if my spouse was sneaking around making $3,000 purchases, I’d be a whole lot worse than she was.
I felt really sorry for horse farm lady. She ahd already lost so much, and as much as she wanted to save the farm, she seemed really sorry to have to lose her family heirlooms.
I hope success comes back her way. I’m afraid the horse market may not be what it was for some time to come.
What an apt description, Eve! I finally watched this show .. saw Sparky’s Rembrandt and the distressed horse lady.
I noticed the Keno’s dramatic hand waving going on whilst trying to state the antique’s dollar value .. “Ten .. Thousand .. Dollars!!!” A real Rembrandt sketch? 400 years old, signed .. and only worth $10,000? I’d expect a higher value, but I’m not an antique expert.
Same story with Horse Lady’s furniture: the table could bring $70,000, but that huge
cabinet was only valued at $1500 due to the top being changed. $1500 just seemed so low in my opinion.
The third ep., last night at 8:00, was much better, I think I will keep watching. They had two stories instead of three, and there wasn’t *quite *so much hysteria and manufactured melodrama. Maybe someone slipped the Streep Bros. some valium.
Was the third episode the family selling artifacts to send their son to medical school? How did that Chinese burial bowl come into their possession … she asked suspiciously?
