Storage Wars (franchise)

Storage Wars is an American reality TV franchise on the A&E Network. The original series, Storage Wars, debuted on December 1, 2010, and has so far run for four seasons, with a fifth currently airing. The success of Storage Wars led to A&E commissioning a spin-off series, Storage Wars: Texas, which has run for two seasons. A&E announced that a second spin-off was in production,[1] Storage Wars: New York was scheduled to air on December 11, 2012 but was pushed back to January 1, 2013.[2] A third spin-off, Storage Wars: Canada, is expected to be released on the Canadian OLN network.

Series

Storage Wars

Main article: Storage Wars

The original Storage Wars (also known as Storage Wars: California) premiered on December 1, 2010. The main setting is in the southern cities of California. There were also two episodes in the first season that had auctions taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada. This show has a total of five seasons, airing 114 regular episodes and two specials.

Storage Wars: Texas

Main article: Storage Wars: Texas

Storage Wars: Texas is the first spin-off show from the original series. This series premiered on December 6, 2011. This series has three seasons, the current season debuting August 27, 2013.

Storage Wars: New York

Storage Wars: New York is the second spin-off series. This show premiered on January 1, 2013. As of the end of November 2013, the series has aired 26 episodes over two seasons.

Storage Wars: Canada

Main article: Storage Wars: Canada

Storage Wars: Canada was the third spin-off series.[3] The series airs on OLN and premiered on August 29, 2013. The show is also seen locally on CITY-TV in Toronto.

Buyers

Below is a list of auction goers featured on the series, divided by series they appear on.

Storage Wars

Past main buyers

Other featured buyers

These buyers aren't main cast members of the show, they show up frequently.

Storage Wars: Texas

Other featured Storage Wars: Texas buyers

Storage Wars: New York

Storage Wars: Canada

Auctioneers

Thom Beers

Thom Beers is the executive producer and narrator for all the shows, and so is the only person to be heard in every series.

Opening titles

On all three series every episode opens with narrator Thom Beer setting the scene for the shows, "When storage units are abandoned, the treasures within are put up for auction." In Texas a line is added after the word abandoned to say in the great state of Texas and then continues to say the rest of the line, the same happens in New York except the line added after abandoned is in the Big Apple.

A song was created especially for Storage Wars called Money Owns this Town. The same theme is used for Texas but is slightly remixed with a western style form. For New York a [rock] version of the theme is played over the opening titles.

Spin Off

When Barry Weiss left Storage Wars he retired from storage hunting and was given his own show, Barry'd Treasure in which he goes around America collecting antiques and selling them at auctions. He is joined along the way by friends of his, some who appeared in episodes of Storage Wars with him. Thom Beers executively produces the series.

See also

References

  1. "Producer Thom Beers talks "Storage Wars: Texas"". Channel Guide Magazine. 2011-12-20. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  2. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2012/12/07/aande-bumps-storage-wars-new-york-to-january-1-be-the-boss-to-late-night-550311/10102/
  3. "Storage Wars Canada". OLN Canada. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  4. Hudak, Joseph (October 22, 2010). "Storage Wars' Greatest Finds". tvguide.com. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  5. "'Storage Wars': Darrell Sheets Gets Biggest Payout In Show's History". huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
  6. "Storage Wars - Meet Jarrod Schulz". aetv.com. 2011. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
  7. Venezia, Barbara (February 4, 2011). "Venezia: Dave Hester of 'Storage Wars' has O.C. connection". Orange County Register. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  8. Gary Levin (December 11, 2012). "'Storage Wars' star says A&E series is faked". USA Today.
  9. "Fired ‘Storage Wars’ Star Scores A Win Over A&E In Lawsuit". http://tv.yahoo.com/. 2013-09-03. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  10. "'Storage Wars' Star Barry Weiss Talks About Being a 'Produce' Man & His Female Fans". Aoltv.com. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  11. Berry's Departure after season four Retrieved July 13, 2013
  12. "Mark Balelo found dead". foxnews.com.
  13. "Hilton vs. Persa". citmedialaw.org. 2008. Retrieved December 14, 2011.
  14. http://www.aetv.com/storage-wars/episode-guide/season-4/auctioning-for-dummies-79#80
  15. "Mary Padian". AETV. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  16. "Roy Williams".
  17. "Candy Olsen and Courtney Wagner".
  18. "Dan Dotson and Laura Dotson".
  19. http://www.aetv.com/new-auctioneers. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. "Walt Cade".
  21. "John Luke".

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