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'PitchMen' Returning to Discovery in August
- If you've ever wondered how Discovery could carry on the highly entertaining reality series 'PitchMen' without the highly electric personality of the late Billy Mays, yo...
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Gilbert Gottfried: Comedian, Actor and ... Pitchman?!?
- Does it ever feel like your TV is screaming at you? This ad is actually yelling at you. No, you're not high on drugs. For some reason, the people behind Shoedini, the...
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Why no love for Billy Mays, Emmys?
- I'm not saying that I necessarily think Billy Mays should have won a posthumous Emmy, or even that his show Pitchmen should have been included in their "The Year in Real...
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Discovery renews Pitchmen
- When Billy Mays died a couple of weeks ago, we were trying to figure out what exactly Discovery was going to do about their show Pitchmen. Would they cancel the show? Re...
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Pitchmen pays teary tribute to Billy Mays
- I don't know how true this axiom is, since I just made it up out of thin air. But it seems to me that, in the world of reality TV, you can edit a nice person to look lik...
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Blue shirts honor Billy Mays
- This isn't usually a blog with photos from funeral services, but I thought this one was appropriate for TV fans to see. Pallbearers at Billy Mays funeral the other day a...
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We're going to keep seeing Billy Mays in commercials
- First off, everyone keeps using the word "infomercial" when describing the ads that Billy Mays did, including this piece at TampaBay.com. Actually, infomercials are long...
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What should happen to Pitchmen now?
- The season finale of Discovery Channel's Pitchmen airs tomorrow night at 10PM (after a day-long marathon of the show). But now that Billy Mays has passed away suddenly, w...
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Billy Mays died of heart disease, says autopsy
- If you're wearing blue to pay tribute Billy Mays, you were probably as shocked by the pitchman's death as I was. Heck, I was even more surprised by Billy's passing than ...
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Today is "Wear Blue for Billy" day
- News of someone's death always implants a little sadness in my brain, whether its the passing of a major celebrity or some innocent bystander who happened to be in the w...
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The pitch for this series was obviously persuasive: a behind-the-scenes peek into the imaginative world of infomercial-product inventors and the man who tries to sell them, noted pitchman Anthony Sullivan, from the initial boardroom meeting to the filming of the infomercial. Sullivan's longtime business partner Billy Mays, who took part in the first season of ``Pitchmen,'' passed away suddenly in June 2009.