Beyond Oak Island

THEIR business plan. Not YOURs. On paper this makes sense.What started as a simple search for treasure on Oak Island, supposed to last a season or two, has become a multi-year never-ending story. In the BUSINESS of syndicated TV, the only way to cash in on that is to spin-off something with the same actors, crew, producers etc. Big bucks. As long as the customers ... err ... viewers ... go for it ....?

Anclote island is NOT in Tampa (Hillsboro county) but in Pasco County or New Port Richey by the Anclote Power Plant. Please get your facts straight. Though many people are interested in your show, the location should not put the spotlight on Tampa. There are many protected and un explored area's in our County and the Credit needs to go to the correct site / County and location. The story line is good, but you still have yet to find treasure oa any of your locations. Oak Island was a bust. Good editing, clear and simple. Your show needs a little more. Let's see your treasures. How about an episode with that.

I know. This is on the HISTORY Channel and should be about history, but I was expecting the folks to spend more time in the present 'digging' up history. In the second episode, they spent almost 30 minutes talking about the exploits of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (and even the Dalton Gang), but less than 15 minutes of Gary Drayton being on location searching for anything. Seems like they need too much filler material in the episodes somewhat like they do with The Curse of Oak Island and fill it in with old material from previous seasons

Someone please Gorilla Tape Matty Blake to the boat seat. And while you're at it, put an extra large piece of it across his mouth.

Matty makes these BOI episodes extremely uncomfortable to watch. He just comes off as a total sycophant. Hey guys. Can we go diving yet? Can we? Can we? Can we?

When they finally do, you can see the trepidation in the other crew members when the divers hit the water and Matty takes the comm and becomes the man in charge. It's like these divers have been on the bottom for 10 seconds and Matty is already hounding them. Everything all right down there? Find anything yet? How's it going?

Diving is serious business. If I had some jamoke hounding me on the comm line every 15 seconds, I'd be very tempted to surface and promptly toss him overboard. TV show or no TV show.

Nothing ruins a documentary faster than a producer that inserts himself into the documentation. Give the basics of the story and then get out of the way and let the experts take it from there.

Too scripted, with Matty being such a blatent brown-noser and the two Lagina brothers so full of themselves, it's difficult to take seriously.

I had it at 4 stars, but while writing this, decided to drop to three.