Baggage Battles
Baggage Battles was an American docu-reality, produced by The Travel Channel from 2012 until 2016. The first episode of the show was aired on April 11, 2012. Season 5 was produced in Canada for Travel Channel International and Canada's CMT Network. Laurence and Sally Martin are also recurring appraisers on Storage Wars. William Leroy appeared once in Toy Hunter and Jordan Hembrough appeared three times on "Baggage Battles". A spin-off focussing on William Leroy "Billy Buys Brooklyn", aired its first 20 episodes in 2021. Mark Meyer made an appearance in the first season. Format. The  program is related to lost baggage auctions, police auctions, and estate auctions. Season 5 features professional buyers Billy Leroy (a antique expert and dealer) who owned the famous Billy's Antiques on the Bowery in New York City, Val (a production designer and online store owner) and Mark Meyer (an eCommerce expert) traveling around North America searching for amazing finds to resell. Previous seasons of the series featured other buyers such as Laurence and Sally Martin, and Traci Lombardo. They often call experts/appraisers to evaluate the objects they have bought. Leroy started filming his new series "Billy Buys Brooklyn  on August 6, 2020 for Discovery channel. It premiered on Discovery plus in the UK on June 16, 2021. Critical reaction. The show is well received by the critics. It has received 7.4/10 ratings on TV.com and has received 2.3/10 ratings on TVGuide.co.uk. AV Club" found it derivative of "Storage Wars", but more positively said that the travel angle did add some local color and occasionally it did surprise with what the participants found.