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Market Warriors continues without Fred Willard while PBS facing GOP funding cuts

After actor Fred Willard was arrested July 18 for “engaging in a lewd act” – at the Tiki (adult film) theater in Hollywood – the Washington Post reported July 23 that Willard was sacked as narrator of Market Warriors “less than 24 hours after his arrest because the programming service was afraid his ‘unfortunate circumstances’ would become a ‘distraction’ and it needed to move quickly, PBS chief Paula Kerger told television critics on the opening day of Summer TV Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton hotel.” In turn, the “Antiques Roadshow” spinoff program Market Warriors continues Monday, July 23 at 9/8c on PBS channels nationwide with this second episode – in a 20 program series – featuring antiquing in Philadelphia at the famed “Philly Flea Market,” that’s legend back east for fine antiques and collectibles. At the same time, the bubbly Roadshow host Mark Walberg now serves in Willard’s old job as the off-screen narrator for Market Warriors.

In turn, “Market Warriors” is being marketed by PBS as “the forerunner of television’s popular antiques and collectibles genre,” with four antique experts going on a treasure hunt with the victor decided at the end of each program with auction results.
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