Hosted by Ed Huffman
Using metal detectors, contestants compete to find buried objects within a wide range of challenging environments.
Hour-long Series | Reality Show
Think of Master Chef
meets American Pickers.
Synopsis
The rewards are right below your feet!
Host Ed Huffman leads contestants competing in various environments: a beach, ghost town, military base, riverbed, city park, construction site, meadow, forest, and more. Each location presents its own set of unique challenges for the metal detectors. On a beach, the competitors will be looking for watches, rings, and car keys that have been buried ahead of time by the producers. In the ghost town, the contestants will seek spurs, bullets, and silver buttons that have been salted in the ground prior to their visit.
An episode within a location such as the famous aircraft “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Force (in the Sonora Desert near Tucson, Arizona) would feature a simulated aircraft crash. The competitors would be looking for debris in the same manner that FAA inspectors would do after an actual downed plane event. Scoring would be based upon the quality and quantity of items each competitor can unearth.
Additional excitement is added to the mix by having special buried “Find It!” tokens that give an advantage to the competitor who discovers them. These tokens may add more points to the discoverer, offer immunity, or cause other diggers to take a “time out.”
Each episode would eliminate some of the competition, with the idea that by the end of the season, a single contestant is identified, and that person wins a cash award. During each episode, the lowest scoring diggers for that show would go into a head-to-head face-off with the loser going home.
To keep the competition fair, all contestants will use identical state-of-the-art metal detectors supplied by the show.
Bible