Hi Cimran,
As you can probably well imagine, you're going to run into huge amounts of skepticism - both from the request itself, as well as your identity as a Producer for a TV Show. Would you be able to provide proof of your identity, possibly by a link to Twitter or other means? I think this would go a long way to establish a bit of credibility to your request.
As I'm sure you understand, people would probably be a bit more forthcoming with information if they didn't think your request was some kind of prank.