NEW YORK – Anaïd Productions’ The Liquidator has been picked up in the U.S. by A+E’s FYI TV. The half-hour series, which has been broadcast for four seasons in Canada on Rogers Media’s OLN and in over 100 countries, will start airing this Friday December 6, at 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
The “King of Deals”, liquidation master Jeff Schwarz (pictured), is the star of the series where viewers are taken inside his unpredictable and unconventional buy-and-sell deals. His is the owner of Direct Liquidation, one of the biggest liquidation houses west of the Rockies.
He’s a flea market haggler, storage locker trader and pawnshop owner, says the press release and has over 30,000 square feet of warehouse space full of ever-changing oddities, household goods and urban artifacts. “For Jeff, every day is a gamble. Sometimes he wins big. Sometimes he gets swindled. Sometimes the negotiation goes sour. There’s no security in his world except to chase the next deal,” reads the release.
The series is produced by Anaïd Productions executive producers Margaret Mardirossian and Helen Schmidt, in association with Rogers Media, with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, Rogers Cable Network Fund, Rogers Telefund, and the province of British Columbia, and with the assistance of the government of Alberta, Alberta Media Fund, and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.
