Baggage Battles is an American docu-reality, produced by The Travel Channel from 2012. The first episode of the show was aired on April 11, 2012. Season 5 was produced in Canada for Travel Channel International and Canada's CMT Network.
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Format
The program is related to lost baggage auctions, police auctions, and estate auctions. Season 5 features professional buyers Billy Leroy (an antique dealer), Val (a production designer and online store owner) and Mark Meyer (an eCommerce expert) traveling around North America searching for amazing finds to resell. Previous seasons of the series featured other buyers such as Laurence and Sally Martin, and Traci Lombardo. They often call experts/appraisers to evaluate the objects they have bought.
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Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Critical reaction
The show is well received by the critics. The show has received 6.2/10 ratings on IMDb. It has received 7.4/10 ratings on TV.com and has received 2.3/10 ratings on TVGuide.co.uk. AV Club found it derivative of Storage Wars, but more positively said that the travel angle did add some local color and occasionally it did surprise with what the participants found.
International distribution
- Albania: On Travel Channel Albania HD
- Australia: On A&E Australia and 7mate
- Brazil: On Travel & Living Channel
- Bulgaria : On Travel Channel Bulgaria and Discovery Channel Bulgaria
- Canada: OLN, DTour, CMT Canada
- Croatia: On Discovery Channel Croatia
- France: On Discovery Channel France
- Germany: On DMAX Germany and TLC Germany
- Hong Kong: On Lifetime (South East Asia), under the name "????(Baggage Wars)"
- India: On History TV18
- Italy: On DMAX Italia and Fine Living, under the name Affari in valigia
- Ireland: on Travel Channel Ireland and Discovery Channel Ireland
- Taiwan: On Travel Channel HD (Asia), under the name "????(Baggage Wars)"
- Malaysia: On Lifetime Channel
- Malta: On Discovery Channel Malta and Travel Channel Malta
- Norway: On Discovery Channel Norway
- Poland: On Discovery Channel Poland, under the name Walka o Baga?.
- Serbia: On Travel Channel Serbia
- Spain: On Discovery Channel Spain under the name "Perdido, Vendido"
- Sweden: On Discovery Channel Sweden
- Switzerland: On SRF zwei
- The Netherlands: On Discovery Channel Netherlands
- United Kingdom: On Travel Channel UK and Discovery Channel UK
References
External links
- Baggage Battles on The Travel Channel site
- Baggage Battles on IMDb
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