It’s hosted by Beth Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern, so this show is bound to be funny. Beth travels the country to meet people who see nothing strange about taking their pets to day spas, performing wedding ceremonies for their animals, walking their ducks on leashes…you name it. The show was released in 2013 and had one season.
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The show “Ax Men” on The History Channel followed the dangerous lives of logging crews through several southern and Midwestern states. If you liked the show, you’ll remember Shelby “Swamp Man” Stanga, who stood out for his resistance to wearing clothes, his general carefree — and at times rebellious attitude — and a Louisiana accent so thick nobody could understand him. And it’s just that sort of attitude that landed him this spin-off show. The show was released in 2013 and has had one season.
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CBS dropped 40 children off on an abandoned ranch with very little supervision and asked them to develop a functioning society in 40 days, with no more than the tools real pioneers would have had. We try not to think of “Lord of the Flies” here but it’s hard not to. The show was released in 2007 and lasted one season.
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Amish country isn’t all peaceful farmers and happy shoe makers. Somebody has to keep that peace. Cue the “Amish Mafia.” This show follows the unofficial law enforcers of an Amish community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as they mediate power struggles and investigate rumors of demonic possession. The show was released in 2012 and has had three seasons.
Source: Discovery.com
In 2003, FOX took eight women who claimed they were considered unattractive and gave them extreme makeovers, which included everything from spray tans to plastic surgery. The producers didn’t allow the women to see their own reflections for three months, until the transformation was complete. The show was released in 2004 and lasted two seasons.
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Next time you’re visiting San Francisco, skip Union Square and visit Loved to Death, a store that features everything, well, death… . We’re talking mummified cats, exorcism kits, skulls of different species and ages, and much more. “Oddities: San Francisco” follows the grind of the staff at this store, which you can imagine involves tracking down and handling some rather gruesome merchandise! The show was released in 2013 and has had two seasons.
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For some, cosplay isn’t just a playful hobby: it’s how they make some extra cash! Cosplay is the practice of dressing up as a character from a video game, movie or book –especially one from the Japanese genres of anime and manga. This show follows serious cosplayers who create elaborate, expensive outfits, travel far and wide to cosplay conventions, master poses, and try to win cash prizes for their renditions of cosplay characters. The show was released in 2013 and has had two seasons.
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If you’ve ever heard rumors that retirement communities are actually pretty wild places, “Sunset Daze” will confirm them! This show followed the residents of a luxury retirement community in Arizona while they partied, went skydiving, got tattoos and much more. The show was released in 2010 and lasted only one season.
After losing everything in the 2008 real estate crash, George Wright and Scott Lomu were sitting around trying to figure out how to make a comeback and they thought, “gold mining in Ghana.” This show follows them as they try to join the African gold rush, using some local manpower and excavators, and are met by resistance — sometimes as strong as the local armed militia. In fact, season two was cut short when an associate producer was injured during an attack by a local militia. The show was released in 2012 and has had two seasons.
Source: Discovery.com
This is a spin-off show from “Moonshiners,” a Discovery Channel docudrama that follows the lives of people who illegally produce moonshine in the Appalachian Mountains. One of the characters from that show, “Tickle,” found an enormous stash of moonshine in the woods and is trying to sneakily profit from it, without alerting the locals to what he’s doing. This is his spinoff show. The show was released in 2013 and has had one season.
Source: Discovery.com
