Spawn's dad Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Season 3, April 3rd Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 This show has consistently been one of my favorites to watch over the past few years. Great footage, suspenseful story-lines, interesting personas, etc. I'm amped. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Serak_the_Preparer Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Never heard of it - is it on cable? I still have the rabbit ears so if it is on the cable I can't watch it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Never heard of it - is it on cable? I still have the rabbit ears so if it is on the cable I can't watch it.It's on the Discovery channel, so yes. These guys have what's believed to be one of the most dangerous jobs going: Alaskan king crap/opilio crab "fishing" in the Bering Sea. Here's a brief description of the show and this new season:http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadlies...bout/about.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ction Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 A good Discovery Channel crossover opportunity would be to stick that Man Vs. Wild dude in one of the crab pots with only a wet suit, snorkel, and flint, and see if he lives. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spawn's dad Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 deadliest catch > lost Quote Link to post Share on other sites
a.miller Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Yeah, this show is awesome. I got hooked on it when the only two cable channels I got in my apartment were Discovery and FX. Needless to say, I saw a lot of Niptuck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 w00t! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JUDE Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Survivor Man >Man Vs. Wild > Lost Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 A good Discovery Channel crossover opportunity would be to stick that Man Vs. Wild dude in one of the crab pots with only a wet suit, snorkel, and flint, and see if he lives. best post i've read today. me and my dad watch this show. it's great! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Just a reminder, this cranks back up tonight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkstar Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Absolutely killer show. Those dudes out on the boats have some serious big brass balls doing that job....a million ways to get all fucked up out there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I've watched the Season Two Highlights twice the past week. Any friendly wagers on who takes in the largest haul (most money) for king crab season? Opi season? I've got dibs on Sig Hanson and his crew.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkstar Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I've watched the Season Two Highlights twice the past week. Any friendly wagers on who takes in the largest haul (most money) for king crab season? Opi season? I've got dibs on Sig Hanson and his crew.... Yup...The Northwestern Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kicking_Television Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 they always get the most... less crew and more fish... just look at the boat compared to the others. much more modern Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 I've got a baaaaaad feeling about Blake and his crew this season. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I've got a baaaaaad feeling about Blake and his crew this season. They had a pretty good "haul" last night. His pots were ranging from 50-75 keepers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I tivo'd it. I'll probably watch it tonoight after the Sox. I remember seeing the trailer a week or so ago for last night's episode and remember Blake and crew with smiles in terms of a haul, but I still think trouble looms for the rookie capt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 The Cornelia Marie appears to be screwed. They have a broken prop, and the boat is docked with 150k lbs of crab. I heard that Sig was on The Daily Show last night. Anyone happen to catch it? Edit: I found it here. http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_dai...how/index.jhtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I'm interested to see the "After the Catch" mini series that airs next week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Yeah, me too. I like where this season is headed:plenty of adversity (major waves/storms, the off-shore distribution boat caught on fire, etc.). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The weather is fugly this season. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 New Season - April 15th 2008 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 "Deadliest Catch" caught in fishy editing By James Hibberd Fri Apr 18, 10:44 AM PDT Tuesday's fourth-season premiere of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" opens during a raging nighttime storm in the Bering Sea. Mammoth waves smash an Alaskan crab fishing boat called the Wizard, sending large swells crashing over its deck. Inside, alarmed crew members discover that their stateroom is flooding with incoming seawater. The sequence suggests that the fishermen are in danger of sinking as a violent tempest tosses huge waves against the boat. But here's the not-so-deadliest catch: The boat flooded in September. The huge storm waves were from October. And a producer may have filmed extra footage to help stitch the two events together. Pages from a production outline obtained by The Hollywood Reporter suggest that producers of the cable network's top-rated series may have strayed from reality while editing the harrowing sequence from the show's record-setting premiere. The document directs producers of the Emmy-nominated program to patch together a scene of life-and-death peril from different days of filming. EARLY DRAFT Discovery executives described the outline as an early draft that was dismissed by the show's production company. The sequence, however, does match what appeared in Tuesday's episode. The network strongly denies that re-enactment footage is ever used by "Catch," but it acknowledged that material from separate days of filming were combined to produce the scene in question. From the outline: "WIZARD ROGUE WAVE: Combine Wizard leak story on 9/26 with the Wizard being hit by a big wave on 10/1 and 10/2. The fiction we are constructing is that the big wave hit the Wizard on their steam up to Dutch -- caused a leak in Lenny's stateroom. In reality these were two separate events. In addition to the original source material, (a producer's name redacted by THR) shot re-enactment footage." Such editing and staging tactics are common on reality shows, but Discovery considers "Catch" a documentary and holds the series to the highest standard. Discovery president and general manager John Ford said the outline was an early draft that did not rise to the level of network inspection. "It's a rough draft that was rejected," Ford said after speaking to producer Original Prods. That said, the scene did combine shots from two different days. The exterior shots showing the Wizard being hit by the waves were filmed from another boat while the Wizard was alone during its actual flooding. "The Wizard was struck by a big wave, and that wave caused the leak you see in the show," Ford said. "The thing we didn't have on camera was the actual wave that struck the Wizard. That was shot at a separate time on the same journey and was an insert edit from the show. We did that for story continuity because we didn't have a boat-to-boat shot." Despite mixing the footage to create a more dramatic scene, Ford said the story told in the episode remains accurate. "Everything that you see in the show happened," he said. "Nothing is made up and nothing needs to be made up. The Wizard was struck by a big wave, and that wave caused the leak you see in the show. The show is 100% authentic." PICKUP SHOTS Also, Ford denied the suggestion that the show uses re-enactment footage, though sometimes "pickup shots" are utilized. "For certain things, we do pickup shots for continuity," Ford said. "If the camera didn't run properly when the captain was boarding the boat, they have the captain back up and board the boat again." Pickup shots are very common in unscripted programming of all stripes. "There's pickup shots in documentaries," said Craig Borders, a reality series director who is co-chair of the Directors Guild of America's reality TV committee. "Interviews can even be considered pickup shots." At the outset of the current season, Discovery instructed producers to not use any re-enactments, Ford said. "Catch" did use a re-enactment shot once last year, and the scene was put into black and white and was labeled a re-enactment. Ford suggested that the production outline may have been written by a person unfamiliar with all of the show's guidelines, confusing pickup coverage with a re-enactment. The leak comes a year after the network admitted another reality hit "Man vs. Wild" took liberties with storytelling. Although the "Catch" sequence doesn't compare to the gaffes committed by "Wild," parent company Discovery Networks always has positioned itself as "a nonfiction entertainment" programmer. Tuesday's episode was the highest-rated premiere in the network's history and was seen by 3.5 million viewers. The show also is the flagship entry in Original Prods. line of gritty blue-collar reality shows, including History's "Ice Road Truckers" and "Ax Men." The genre has become so popular on basic cable that NBC this month announced two Original Prods. shows set to air in summer 2009: "Shark Taggers" and "America's Toughest Jobs." Original Prods. declined repeated requests for comment. Nominated for seven primetime Emmy Awards, "Catch" often is praised for its realism. Noting that Bering Sea fisherman have died while filming the show, the New York Times last week declared that "of all the reality shows, 'Deadliest Catch' is by far the realest." With that in mind, the lines between reality programming, documentaries and docudramas are increasingly difficult to distinguish. And for many filmmakers, where those lines are remains uncharted territory. Whatever the case, the inherent danger faced by the boat's crew is undeniable. Viewers have embraced the series because it offers a brand of man-vs.-nature escapism not found in scripted productions. Last year, "Catch" fans on a Discovery Channel message board thread debated whether one scene was staged. The consensus: never on this show. "I suppose we're a country that's been desensitized to 'thrills' because Hollywood spews them out so rapidly and easily," one viewer wrote on the board. "That's why I'm so hooked on 'Deadliest Catch.' It's so refreshing to see 'real life' that contains more thrills and chills than even Hollywood can imagine." Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Copyright Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tellya Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 you just made the world crash down around me. some things are better left unsaid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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