TV Series - Looking for Hosts

Heather-

Hello there. I live in a Chicago IL suburb and have been detecting for six about years now. I am fortunate to have a very good job and I live in an affluent historic neighborhood (Winnetka,IL), so literally I am usually the only guy out there (in my area) detecting. My friends and neighbors are out golfing, playing tennis or at their country clubs,...not me, I'm out there detecting in my free time. I am smitten with this hobby and probably not your average metal detector (if there is such a thing). However, what I do know about most detectors though is that it's not about money, rather it's about the thrill of the hunt. It's the feeling one gets when they've done their homework and have found an old map of an old fairground site, or old homestead or tavern. The chills a detector gets when his favorite trusty machine reads something at +90 is lying 8 inches below the surface... or the moment one sees that beautiful unmistakable glint of silver down in the hole.... That's what we live for. For me personally, I strive for that feeling every day I'm at the office, so I get out when I can, weekends, holidays, and even some nights using a REI headlamp for light. 

Heather, thanks for taking a look and best of luck with the show!

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john

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Hello Heather,
Sounds like there are quite a few of us hermits to choose from. You can see a resume and some headshots of me at my website,

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. I'm a SAG eligible actor with decades of experience in front of and behind the camera. I've been a producer, director , and talent. I live in Alaska, which is the most vastly beautiful place on the planet (yes I am a little biased). And short of some good ground penetrating radar I run the finest metal detector made, the Minelab GPX 5000. If you need locations I have quite a few friends who are professional miners with claims in a number of different areas. I'm sure we could access a number of those if necessary.
Call me and we can talk.

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Heather,

I don't know if your plans for the show are "relic hunting", "metal detecting", "beach hunting", or whatever. When I see the term "Treasure Hunting" in the same sentence as "TV Show" it makes me cringe a little.

I have been at this for about fifteen years. In all that time, I can count the number of Treasure Hunters that have actually found treasure on two hands. The problem with a series about treasure hunting is that each week your team would need to come up with something. The people I know that have made big finds in many cases searched for decades before finding anything of consequence. This may lead to faking finds to keep the show interesting (as in some of the ghost hunting shows).

There are also legal ramifications regarding REAL treasure hunting. If what your team is searching for falls on any sort of government land (which is almost everything that's not developed now), Treasure Trove Permits will have to be approved (this is a long and tedious process that must ultimately be negotiated with the GSA "General Services Administration" of the US Government).

REAL treasure hunters hold certain knowledge. They would be loathe to make that knowledge public on television. There are a lot of pitfalls in serializing a treasure hunting show. Mainly that the greatest majority of people who claim to know the secrets of the Jesuits, or the Spanish, actually know diddly squat. Those people are also the self aggrandizing types that would jump to host a TV Show like the one you are pitching. Your best hope for success in this is to get the best technical advisor you can. The people that REALLY know this obsession are a small family. One of them could guide you past the wanna-be's.

Best of luck in your endeavour,

Mike McChesney

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Heather:

My name is Les.  I enjoy treasure hunting as I find the hunt is just as exciting as finding things, whether it is the target I am looking for or not.  The tools I use are dowsing rods and metal detectors.  I hunt for coins in city parks, school grounds etc and hidden outlaw loot out in the wilds. 

I do most of my hunting during the summer time as that's when I am off work from driving a school bus and have time to devote to my hobby.

I've never done any kind of TV work at all.

Thanks for the notice.

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	Heather, I am perfect for your show, short, fat, ugly and I hate being in front of a camera. I may even shave if I get the part. I only hunt for big gold nuggets so it might be boring to watch. Great idea, much hope for success.

Are you already on TV? American Pickers?

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