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" Pawn Stars is approaching phenomenon status in the US. Based around the Harrison family&amp;#039;s World Famous Gold &amp;amp; Silver Pawn Shop, the series blends Antiques Roadshow with American reality TV spice and melodrama. The show has now moved from the US to the UK for a spinoff series and Rick has given Digital Spy 5 reasons why we should tune in to the series. 1. The show&amp;#039;s a serious hit worldwide &amp;quot;What I know about my show is that it&amp;#039;s like hearing a history lesson from your uncle and not from your professor.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s Rick&amp;#039;s explanation for the Pawn Stars phenom. &amp;quot;I pitched the show for a few years and finally I got it and I was hoping for a season or two and the next thing you know it&amp;#039;s become this huge deal. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m still overwhelmed it&amp;#039;s now the number one show in all of South America, central America, Canada. It&amp;#039;s the number one show in all of Asia for some reason, and in the Philippines. It&amp;#039;s about the number one or two show everywhere in the world. I still don&amp;#039;t exactly understand why. It&amp;#039;s still a show about four fat guys in a pawn shop.&amp;quot;  Watch a Pawn Stars UK trailer:      2. There are some seriously crazy moments &amp;quot;I have been surprised by some of the wacky stuff people bring in. Sometimes I&amp;#039;m in awe, sometimes I just laugh my ass off.  &amp;quot;Six human skulls in a duffel bag was the best. It turned out it was a school that needed these plastic skulls.&amp;quot;  3. Pawn Shops get a rough deal &amp;quot;The show has definitely changed people&amp;#039;s opinions. People using pawnshops in the US has gone up 20% thanks to my show and it has changed it a lot because of my show. &amp;quot;Pawn shops have always been around. They&amp;#039;ve been around for over 3,000 years and they were the number one form of consumer credit in the United States and I&amp;#039;m pretty sure they were in London too up until the 1950s when credit cards came along. &amp;quot;It was always an honourable profession until Hollywood got hold of it.&amp;quot; 4. It&amp;#039;s educational. There is money to be made in the world of Pawn. But don&amp;#039;t go diving in headfirst. &amp;quot;Just be careful and don&amp;#039;t go straight into it blind,&amp;quot; says Rick.  &amp;quot;You might want to work in a pawnshop for a few years. I always tell people about things that are brought in, &amp;#039;There&amp;#039;s one real one for every 99 fake ones&amp;#039;. That&amp;#039;s just the way it is. With so many fakes out there you&amp;#039;ve really got to know what&amp;#039;s you&amp;#039;re doing. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been buying and selling since I was 13 years old. I moved with my parents to Las Vegas when I was 16 and my Dad opened up a little second hand shop and I just really liked the business and it kept on growing. &amp;quot;I was always out there as a kid looking for gold rings and silver spoons and reselling them and it just seemed to work.&amp;quot; 5. Even Bob Dylan&amp;#039;s a fan &amp;quot;I was pretty amazed by that. It turned out Bob Dylan had watched the show along with everyone else I guess.&amp;quot;      Pawn Stars UK continues tonight (September 2) on History. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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