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Although jewellery is the most commonly pawned item at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, most of the customers featured in episodes bring in a variety of vintage or antique items to the store, which has 12,000 items in its inventory as of July 2011 (5,000 of which are typically held on pawn).

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The series is filmed on location at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in 2010 The staffer adjusted its storyline in order to bring it in line with the network's brand, which included the on-camera experts appraising the items brought into the Gold & Silver, though she did not discourage the interpersonal conflicts among the show's stars. The network concurred, believing that name to be more pleasing and easily remembered. History president Nancy Dubuc, who had been charged with creating programming with a more populist appeal to balance out the network's in-depth military programming, picked up the series, which was initially titled Pawning History, before a staffer at Leftfield suggested that Pawn Stars would fit better with the locale. The format eventually evolved into the now-familiar family-oriented motif used on the series. The series was originally pitched to HBO, though the network preferred the series to have been a Taxicab Confessions-style series taking place at the Gold & Silver's night window. The shop, and Rick, had previously been featured in the Las Vegas episode of Insomniac with Dave Attell in 2003. It had been the subject of a 2001 PBS documentary, and the manager and part-owner, Rick (King of the Pawn) Harrison, had been trying unsuccessfully to pitch a show based on his shop for four years.

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Thinking such shops might contain unique characters, they searched for a family-run shop on which to center a TV series until they found the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. Pawn Stars began with Brent Montgomery and Colby Gaines of Leftfield Pictures, who were struck by the array of eclectic and somewhat seedy pawn shops in Las Vegas during a 2008 weekend visit to the city. 4 Spin-offs and similar series by Leftfield.

The show's 16th season premiered January 21, 2019, in a new hour-long format. Antique restorer/metal artist Rick Dale is the star of the series' first spin-off, American Restoration, which premiered in October 2010, and mechanic/auto restoration expert Danny 'The Count' Koker stars in the second spin-off, Counting Cars, which debuted August 13, 2012. Numerous local experts in a variety of fields also regularly appear to appraise the items being sold or pawned, two of whom have gone on to their own spin-off programs.

TV Guide has offered a similar description, calling the show 'one part Antiques Roadshow, a pinch of LA Ink and a dash of COPS'. One reviewer referencing these conflicts described the show as a version of Antiques Roadshow 'hijacked by American Chopper 's Teutul family'. The series also follows the interpersonal conflicts among the cast. The series depicts the staff's interactions with customers, who bring in a variety of artifacts to sell or pawn, and who are shown haggling over the price and discussing its historical background, with narration provided by either the Harrisons or Chumlee. 2 reality show behind Jersey Shore, debuted on July 26, 2009. The series, which became the network's highest rated show and the No. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a 24-hour family business opened in 1989 and originally operated by patriarch Richard 'Old Man' Harrison, his son Rick (King of the Pawn) Harrison, Rick's son Corey 'Big Hoss' Harrison, and Corey's childhood friend, Austin 'Chumlee' Russell. Pawn Stars is an American reality television series, shown on History, and produced by Leftfield Pictures.

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