HALIFAX – Producers of the popular History Channel series “The Curse of Oak Island” released stunning news, yesterday, announcing the discovery of a 12th season.
“This is huge,” exclaimed producer Steve Collins. “When we first started this project, a decade ago, we were told ‘people have been digging there for more than 200 years and have found bupkis, you won’t do any better’. But we’ve shown them, our tireless team has managed to pull up another 10 episodes from that glorified ditch!”.
Based around the island’s famed “Money Pit”, the site of a rumoured buried treasure of British Privateer William Kidd, the series follows the exploits of American brothers Marty and Rick Lagina as they, and their team, attempt to solve the enduring mystery. “People have been searching for Captain Kidd’s Oak Island treasure since the 1700s, when he made absolutely no mention of it”, said Marty. “Until recently, everyone who tried had uncovered nothing, possibly because all of the experts are right in thinking it’s just a natural sinkhole, but none of those people had our team’s incredible ability to get people to WATCH us uncover nothing!”.
For their part, the Laginas view the archeological coup as just one of many victories for the team. “Honestly, the producers are more excited by this than us”, said Rick. “We’ve had a remarkable ability to uncover amazing artifacts, conveniently, by the end of every season finale. It’s just unfortunate that so few of them have yet to be authenticated by experts, but I’m very confident we’ll have something to report on that by the next season’s premiere”.
When asked why he think the series has maintained such a loyal following, Marty proffered that many viewers are Nova Scotians who are drawn to the local flavour. “Really, I can’t think of anything more typically Nova Scotian than a couple of outsiders buying up prime real estate that could have otherwise been used to build homes for any of the thousands of residents who don’t own one”.
Collins, meanwhile, credited the solid ratings to improvements on concepts from more traditional, scripted, television, noting “Hell, we’re just giving you ‘Lost’ but with more answers”.
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