Gold Rush: Alaska Revelations and Digging Deeper (After Show)
Gold Rush: Alaska Episodes 19-21
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Gold Rush: Alaska
Gold Rush: Alaska
Classification: Documentary
Genre: | Action | Adventure | Discovery/Science | History | How To/Do It Yourself
Status: Returning Series
Network: Discovery Channel ( USA)
Airs: Fridays at 09:00 pm
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Premiere: December 03, 2010
GOLD RUSH is a documentary series for Discovery Channel about a group of unemployed men from Oregon who have set out for Alaska in search of GOLD. In a last ditch effort to provide for their families, they’ve sold everything they can and invested in a gold claim and the machinery to mine it.
Living off the grid in one of the wildest and most unforgiving wildernesses on earth, they hope to rekindle the American Dream and start a 21st Century Gold Rush. But in Alaska, everything is a struggle. Every day they have to contend with breakdowns, bug bites, extreme weather and grizzly bears. Can they tough it out long enough to find any gold?
(Source: The Discovery Channel)
Gold Rush: Alaska Season 2 Episode 21 Special
GOLD RUSH ALASKA 2.21
Click to viewGold Rush: Alaska Season 2 Episode 19 Special
REVELATIONS Special! Premieres Friday, March 2 at 9p E/P
In never before seen footage, the miners unearth the sometimes ugly truth about their 2011 mining seasons. The crews also clue us in on their big plans for the 2012 season. Determined to turn failure at Big Nugget into success, Parker goes to extremes to prep the Big Nugget mine. Jack goes under the knife to rid himself of nagging back pain. And in a shocking development, one miner is kicked off the Hoffman crew.
This special lifts the curtain on Gold Rush and goes inside the lives of the men seeking gold in Alaska and the Klondike. All new interviews, hosted by the executive producer of the series, give insight into the miners' unique world.
Gold Rush: Alaska Season 2 Episode 20
Aftershow: Digging Deeper
Gold Rush: Alaska Season 2 Episode 20 -- Aftershow: Digging Deeper
Gold Rush executive producer Christo Doyle asks the tough questions and gets the real dirt on the miners. Personal revelations, bets and challenges all play out in this revealing special.
Discovery Channel's Post-Oscar Gold Rush
Discovery Channel's Post-Oscar Gold Rush
Oscar gold wasn’t the only one to hit big last week. Discovery Channel’s Gold Rush and Bering Sea Gold hit all time highs, handily winning Friday night’s 18-49 and total viewers demos across broadcast and cable alike. Gold Rush, which just wrapped up its second season but airs a ‘behind the scenes’ special March 2nd, was recently renewed for a third season.
It’s likely Bering Sea Gold will be renewed for a second season, since this ‘hour of gold’ has propelled Discovery to the number one network spot on Friday nights with men 25-54 in addition to the previously mentioned demos. Bering Sea’s premiere on January 21st was the network’s most-watched debut ever, setting records for the network among households, adults 18 to 49, and men ages 25 to 54.
Why do we love these shows so much? There are no breasts, little backstabbing, no drinking or drugs, and the only violence is machines cutting into huge tracts of pristine wilderness and ocean bottom.
Some have suggested that it’s because we still have a fascination with Alaska, just like we did with Louisiana, which is the backdrop for many reality TV shows (History Channel’s Cajun Pawn Stars and Swamp People; CMT’s Bayou Billionaires and My Big Redneck Vacation; A&E’s Billy The Exterminator, to name a few).
True, Alaska is home to Alaska State Troopers (National Geographic Channel). Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel), and Ice Road Truckers (History Channel). Alaska, however, like Louisiana, has significant tax credits for qualifying productions there, including the ones listed above. In other words, if Iowa offered a 60 percent break, you can bet production companies would find some fascinating stories in the Hawkeye State.
Practicalities aside though, we do have a fascination with Alaska. It’s huge, considerably unspoiled (relatively speaking), and has coastlines on three different seas. Technically, one really can see Russia from there.
The reason Discovery has hits on its hands with these shows is not because we’re enchanted by the majestic scenery around Porcupine Creek or Quartz Creek mines, or the whiplash-generating weather passing over Nome’s blackened sea. It’s not because we get to see cavernous deposits of gold, either. If we’re lucky, we get to see a few hopeful flecks in a mountain of sludge, after watching the miners literally shovel or suck muck for an hour.
We love them because of the characters. Continue Reading More at Forbes Magazine
Gold Rush' mechanic discusses fame, gold and relationships
Reality TV star settles in Redmond ‘Gold Rush' mechanic discusses fame, gold and relationships
Excerpts from article
REDMOND - A few years ago, James Harness had nothing.
“I had tried to save a failing business that I had started. It got to where I couldn't even work, my pain levels were so high. I had no doctors, no medication. And I just folded. All the walls came crashing in and I was down to nothing,” he said.
Harness, 55, is faring better now, having become a star on the Discovery Channel reality series “Gold Rush,” which follows a group of men from Sandy as they hunt for gold in Alaska.
Just a couple of years ago, it was a far different story. “I was on my last legs. Didn't have a lot of money. I had applied for disability (compensation).”
He was living in Sandy, where he was presented with a chance to be on the show.
“I was mainly doing stuff for the Hoffmans just to have a place to stay. And then they came up with this other deal, going gold mining. Because they knew I was down and out, they offered it to me, and I didn't have a lot of other choices,” Harness said. “They came to and asked me, ‘Can you build this stuff?'”
If you're familiar with “Gold Rush,” you know who the Hoffmans are: Todd Hoffman, who secured the claim at Porcupine Creek and is the leader of the mining project, and his spirited father, Jack Hoffman, who mined gold in Alaska in the 1980s.
Harness knew the men for about four years before heading to Alaska with them and other members of the crew.
In spite of chronic back pain - partly from being rear-ended in a car accident - he went. Harness would be the crew's mechanic, playing a crucial role in building and keeping machinery functioning.
Because Todd Hoffman had reached out to a production company looking for reality show ideas, the venture would become the Discovery Channel reality series “Gold Rush Alaska,” condensed to “Gold Rush” for the just-concluded second season.
According to the Discovery Channel, it's the No. 1 show in the 9 p.m. time slot on Fridays - that's including both cable and broadcast TV - scoring especially high ratings among men.
In Alaska, the Hoffmans and crew found some gold over two seasons, falling just shy of a stated goal of finding 100 ounces this year.
A third season has been announced. Harness has no plans to be part of it.
The Bulletin met with Harness two days before the airing of a “Gold Rush” special titled “Revelations.” A teaser clip Harness had seen hinted at someone's departure and left him very concerned about how the show may depict his exit.
“It insinuated that Todd fired me, which never happened,” Harness said. “It shows him making a comment that ‘I guess this is where we part ways.' Yet I'm not in the frame. I'm not there.”
Harness and the rest of the cast don't see episodes before they air, and Harness said he had no plans to watch “Revelations.”
In fact, he said, he hasn't watched a full episode since the series premiere in December 2010, so different was it from the reality he remembered.
“It truly is not the way I remember it, and it distorts my memories ... I get mad, because it's different from what I remember. The real important things I feel should have been in there weren't.
“For every 40 hours of filming, you might see two minutes of it,” he added. “And sometimes it's what you leave out that's important.”
Christo Doyle, the executive producer of the show, told The Bulletin, “We capture the story and tell it as 100 percent honest as we can, and that's what plays out (in the special).”
“Throughout season two, Harness and the rest of the Hoffman crew had a lot of fallings out. There was tension there, and what we do is we capture the story as it unfolds.
“They were not getting along, there (were) a lot of issues there. We captured those issues, and what you're going to see in the special ... is those issues play out.”
Doyle and others associated with the show are often asked if “Gold Rush” is scripted. The answer is no, he said. “We do not script a single thing. We're a fly on the wall telling the story here.”
Yet, Harness said, “I don't care if it's falling down or killing yourself, they want to see it again and get two shots of it. ... It's really hard to have a competitive business and put everything into that - trying to make a profit you built out of the ground - and yet try to do a TV show at the same time. They collide constantly. It slows you down so much, there's no way to succeed. You're doing two different things at the same time.”
No matter how it's put forth on the program, Harness is adamant that his departure was by choice. He's not coming back for a third season because, he said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
This article is no longer available for free. However, you can purchase a day pass for 75 cents and continue reading the article in its entirety on The Bulletin
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