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Discovery Channel strikes it rich in new series

This is Big: Backyard Oil Premieres Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 9pmCT/10pmET. South Central Kentuckians are planning celebrations around the premiere. If you have special plans, let us know about them. Just yesterday, CJE Ann Melton and Mayor Mark D. Harris proclaimed the coming week "Wildcat Oil Week" in all of Columbia, KY and vast Adair County. - CM
Can't wait for the first episode, we've embedded the promotional video starring a host of Adair Countians at the end of this artickle. It's the greatest movie event since Thunder Road played at the Rialto Theatre.

By Emily Robinson
For the Discovery Channel

NEW YORK, NY - There is a modern day oil boom hitting the hills of south central Kentucky on Discovery Channel's Backyard Oil premiering Tuesday, April 23 at 10 PM ET/PT. In this high stakes comical rollercoaster ride through the world of wildcat oil drilling, the right equipment, the perfect location and a hint of good luck is the key to making millions - if you know where to sink that drill bit.



Backyard Oil follows the fortunes of the most boot-strappin' oil men in all of Appalachia - mogul Jimmy Reliford and his sidekick Mad Dog; Coomer, who's raking in $300-thousand a month thanks to an oil strike in his own backyard; a bearded hillbilly named Rascal; and the Page Boys, a father-son team who can't help but bicker about everything...except finding that sweet, sweet crude. Now that oil fetches close to $100 a barrel, there's a modern day oil boom hitting Kentucky and people are racing to enlist the services of these oil men to make them millions. Most think they have oil, few find it, and it's up to this motley crew to fight until the bid is won and the next great monster oil well is drilled. Backyard Oil is produced for Discovery Channel by Red Line Films with Aaron Rothman, Peter Franchella, Al Szymanski and Cherie Kloss serving as executive producer. For Discovery Channel, French Horwitz and Michael Sorensen serve as executive producers with Meghan Keener as coordinating producer.


Backyard Oil Barons Premiers Tonight!




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Backyard Oil Drillers - scene from Discovery Channel episode



2013-04-17 - Adair County, KY - Photo from Elaine Robinson, Discovery Channel photo. Jimmy Reliford left at drill site with Lucky Larry in scene from upcoming episode of Backyard Drillers, which premiers Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 9pmCT/10pmET on the Discovery Channel. - Elaine Robinson, the Discovery Channel
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Backyard Oil - Adair County Drillers on Discovery Channel



2013-04-17 - Adair County, KY - Photo Discovery Channel photo . A frame for a future episode on the Discovery Channel, of Brent Yates, Mad Dog, near a pipe at drill site. - Elaine Robinson, The Discovery Channel
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