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 ....?

Only seen the first episode, but it seems to be padded out even worse than the Curse of Oak Island. They are using the same contrived reactions where anything they need to emphasise shows the same reaction (sharp look sideways to whoever is nearby). This is boring now. The Oak Island series feels overstretched now and this feels like a step too far.

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

I'm excited for this show, i really love these old crazy men and the history and the stuff they find. I really hope they actually do find some sort of treasure! They gotta make that money back from oak Island lol! The only thing i don't like is its only usa stuff and considering they are on Canadian soil for most of the year and oak Island is all about Canada and is in Canada they should include stories from Canada or from around the world. And they don't mention women from history. The first episode was about pirates and there was several well known successful female ones and no mention at all about them..

I actually, maybe foolishly, thought they'd be delving into the mysteries and trying to solve some stuff but nope. They just go over the history of each treasure-mystery, then for about maybe 10 minutes end up going to the site and look around and ponder, maybe do some metal-detecting, look at some rocks, find a rusty bullet-casing or carving and go "Oh! There must definitely be something to this mystery if we'd keep digging!" and then they leave.

Major disappointment. Major bore.