Five Year Pitch
Once Mike Wolfe realized he had the idea for a potentially popular show, he went about his search for interested network executives. After five long years, he did not find any success. Wolfe was speaking with anyone in the industry he may want to talk. Fortunately, a contact gave him critical feedback on changing his format. After doing this, he pitched the idea to the History Channel. They bought the show in 2009, and the rest was well, quite literally history.
Five Year Pitch
He Turned Down Offers
During those five long years of searching for a network, Mike Wolfe did get some offers. Unfortunately, none of those offers really appealed to him. Once, he was approached by a man that worked for PBS. This particular person wanted to shape the show into something Mike was uncomfortable with. Thus, Mike said in his Script interview, “I was excited someone was interested. He started editing some of it. But it wasn’t my vision, and when I was completely honest with him about that, he got really mad at me, saying, ‘What do you know…I’ve been in television for 25 years?’ I said, ‘Well, I know this isn’t what I want.’ I had to physically throw him out of my house. It was crazy…and then I was all by myself again.”
He Turned Down Offers