But this is not a tale of industrious wildcatters or jet-setting executives. This is down home reality TV and the subjects are the newest and unlikeliest members of the upper crust. They are the “Bayou Billionaires”.

Each half-hour episode of “Bayou Billionaires” will follow the exploits of the Dowdens, a sprawling family of hillbillies fortunate enough to own land near Shreveport, Louisiana, right in the heart of the emerging Haynesville shale gas play.

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