Why didn’t I know about this? Pigman, the Series
So, I’m doing some work from home this afternoon, and put the idiot box on to let the hunting shows play while I put PowerPoint slides together. It’s pretty much the usual stuff on The Sportsman’s Channel, and I’m not paying much attention… it’s more like white noise (to me, quacking ducks, gobbling turkeys, and gunfire are white noise), and I only look up from time to time to see where and what they’re hunting now… or whenever an elk bugles. (Can’t ignore that sound.)
I’m not sure what I was doing at the precise moment I heard the word “pig”, but of course that got my attention. I looked up in time to see, of all things, a tattoo in process… and it was COOL! (OK, if you don’t like tattoos just hold your water. I don’t think he’s asking for your approval.) It was kind of a tribal design of a hog, and if I’d thought of it first, I may well have claimed it for my own. From the tat, the opening sequence jumped to hog hunting footage… charges, bow kills, handgun shots, and all kinds of stuff. But best of all, there wasn’t a whitetail, a turkey, or a goose in the whole melange… just hogs.
Then the show title pops up… PIGMAN – THE SERIES!
I had to pop over to the website to see what this was all about. Here’s the program description from the site:
Known throughout the outdoor world for his relentless pursuit of wild hogs, Brian “PigMan” Quaca will burst onto the Outdoor Television scene January of 2010 as host of “PigMan, The Series”, which will focus on his quest of the wild boar hog and other dangerous big game animals throughout the world. “PigMan, The Series” will also take you into the lifestyle of the Texan, giving viewers an inside look at the outrageous personality of this wild card outdoor TV host. Viewers will be taken throughout the Midwest for whitetail, the mountains of Utah for Monster Elk and across the border to Mexico chasing whitetail and wild pigs. “Pigman” will also take viewers hunting dangerous game to the Middle East and Australia and other places rarely captured on video. You’ll watch as the PigMan puts his life on the line, carrying his bow and rifle into the untamed Dark Continent where he pursues the most deadly animals in the world eye to eye. “PigMan” will be like no other show on outdoor television today…we just hope the Outdoor World is ready.
OK, so it sounds like hogs aren’t all he’s gonna hunt, but man, look at that itinerary! The Middle East, Australia, and who knows where else? It’s the tv show I’d have made if I could make a tv show… maybe without quite the level of histrionics I saw on this episode of the show, but then again, that over-acting seems to be the name of the game out there.
So I’ve only seen this one episode, and to be honest, I wasn’t crazy about the whole thing. I won’t sit and critique it here, but overall, and as a series, I think it’s one I’ll be tuning into again!
It sounds like a pretty cool little show. I honestly don’t watch too much TV – not even outdoor TV – but this seems intriguing to me. Especially the fact that he is going to be chasing hogs all around the world. I think that’s pretty cool.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:43 am
Boy, I hear ya on “thank God it’s not another whitetail show.” Whitetail whitetail whitetail whitetail whitetail. I’m catching up on a huge stack of hunting mags that I ignored during duck season and I can’t tell one cover from the other because every single one has a whitetail on it.
Pigs definitely need more love. (MMMmmmm, hot .270 love! Wait, did I say that out loud?) The interesting thing is all the hardcore foodie shows out there have the TV hosts going after pigs, not whitetail. You should turn to the Travel Channel once in a while… Less histrionics there too.
February 5th, 2010 at 9:17 am
It’s worth checking out, Arthur. I can’t say it’ll be my favorite show, but it has all the right makin’s.
Holly, I don’t necessarily mind the deer hunts, but they get pretty redundant… not to mention most of them are so focused on “trophy” hunting, they don’t spend any time at all on enjoying the hunt. The same thing could happen with the hog hunting show, I suppose, but for now, it’s a pleasant change of pace to see someone focused on hog hunts, and not just using them as filler between deer and turkey season.
As far as the Travel Channel, I’ve seen a couple of good shows there and glad to see it as well. I can’t remember if it was the Travel Channel or the Food Network that came out to my friend, Chopper’s place a couple years back for an episode on wild hogs.
We’ll see where it all ends up.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:31 am
It is either Whitetail or Fishing Phillip! that all the media seems to be focused upon. This really does look like a breath of fresh air.
Maybe I will reinstate my subscription to the sportsman’s channel just so’s I can watch Pigman too!
Although, they really should change the name to The Sporting Channel because the sportsman’s channel sounds a little gender biased don’t you think?
February 6th, 2010 at 3:57 am
Pigman is quickly becoming my favorite show. It’s good hunting mixed with alot of comic relief. I got to meet the pigman last month, the guy is just as extreme in person as he is on the boob tube. His attitude and personality just make me laugh…. And the man knows his hogs.
February 10th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Great show,I live in Coryell county,would love to take the pigman on our next pig hunt.
February 11th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I’ve watched a couple of episodes and was not impressed.
The Hosts spend as much time mugging for the camera as they do hunting.
In the last episode there was less than a minute of actual pig footage. When the Pigman was trying to capture and tie up a pig, the camera focused on him exclusively with absolutely no footage of the pig.
We did learn what Pigman likes on his hamburger though.
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:43 pm