BillyMays.TV Life’s A Pitch, Then You Buy

The Discovery Channel is still looking for products to showcase on season 2 of PitchMen! March 13th & 14th Anthony “SULLY” Sullivan and his crew will be hearing your pitches for products during the Chicago International Housewares Show at the McCormick Center in Chicago.
There are important instructions to follow if you want to pitch, so [...]

Sully needs your new product ideas!
On Friday, January 29, 2010, Discovery Channel’s hit show PITCHMEN is offering inventors and innovators the opportunity to present their inventions to the producers and vie for the chance to pitch a product to industry expert and television pitchman Anthony “SULLY” Sullivan. TO ATTEND YOU MUST:
1)Email your name, phone number, [...]

Press release from Discovery:
Discovery Channel’s PITCHMEN, the 12-part series that featured the late Billy Mays II and his business partner, Anthony ‘Sully’ Sullivan, will be back for a second season. Because of the success of the series first season, and as a tribute to Mays’ legacy, the show will continue. PITCHMEN, which is produced by [...]

Sounds like an interesting Pitchmen tonight…
Billy and Sully take on a revolutionary new windshield wiper and produce an explosive shoot, featuring something called the ‘Bug Bazooka.’ Then the guys get behind a new way to eat breakfast cereal, “The EZ Crunch Bowl.”
The inventor of the EZ Crunch Bowl is Ethan Zohn, from “Survivor: Africa”. [...]

There’s a new Pitchmen airing this week:
A former pitchman and cancer survivor gets a leg up from Billy and Sully, who cut a spot for his handmade product; Billy engages in the deadliest pitch of his career; and then, the pitch pros are invited to lecture at Princeton.
Who did a better job pitching the Grater [...]

Billy re-vamps the ad for one of his most successful products – the Awesome Auger – whose inventor lost his legs in a harrowing plane crash. Then, the first ever infomercial for affordable health insurance: Billy and his family pitch “iCan“.
Original Awesome Auger commercial:

iCan ad:

Electronic Retailer recently ran an article titled, “The Men Behind the Pitch,” all about Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan.
The article identifies Billy as the recognizable face behind such popular brands as OxiClean, Kaboom, Hercules Hook and the Mighty products (Mighty Putty and Mighty Mendit).
Paynich, the article’s author, talks about the similar beginnings of Mays’ and [...]

This week on Pitchmen…
A successful TV Pitchwoman hopes to make herself a household name with her new “Spin Gym” but making her infomercial could damage her friendship with Billy and Sully. Then, “Green Again” turns brown grass green and Billy and Sully jump to back it.
The Spinning Green episode of Pitchmen airs May 27, 10:00 [...]

Tonight’s episode of Pitchmen (Tool Guys) is all about the tools. Sully and Billy work on the pitch for the Grabit and the Tool Band-it:
Sully is fired up to shoot an infomercial for The Grabit – a broken screw extractor – but it could fall apart when Billy makes a deal without him. Born [...]

Tonight on Pitchmen…
A 17-year-old boy has invented a cleaning product called the “Spot Sucker,” but needs Billy and Sully’s help to get it off the ground and change his life for the better. A woman with a foot salve and a small fan-base comes to Billy and Sully to take her business to the next [...]