MovieChat Forums > Gold Rush: South America (2013) Discussion > where the crap is the show, anyway?

where the crap is the show, anyway?

posted 11 years ago by emncaity
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Alright, I'm confused. We had like three, four episodes of GRSA. Then we had something called Gold Rush: The Frozen North, going back to the Schnabels and the Freds. Pretty interesting. Let's see what's going on there, yeah? But no, instead, we get two weeks of reruns, "making of" and "behind the scenes" bullcrap, and...so where are we? Just hanging around for the next episode?

Apologies if this is easier to find than I think it is. I poked around a bit and couldn't find anything. This show used to blow everything else away on the cable channels, but this version of it (GRSA) generates only a few threads on a discussion board, and there were exactly zero on the GRTFN (which, inexplicably, IMDB refers to as a "TV movie," although the actual running time is only something like 45 minutes without commercials).

So what gives? Is it ending with a whimper, a few last coughs, then a death rattle? Have people lost interest? Did these guys get raptured or something, and we're now left behind (I'll bet you ten bucks Todd actually believes he'd be the first one in the air, so he can be first in line to tell Jesus all about hard work, America, and how people think he's giving up but by God he's not giving up)?

Tell you one thing: You want a sure way to start losing big chunks of your audience, all you gotta do is jerk them around a bit, put out "making of" crap under the name of the show, and make the occurrence of the episodes not a regular thing but a thing that the audience has to guess at.

[–] Allen23 11 years ago

I'm still interested, but only if they cut the stupid behind the scenes episodes (which I will never watch because I have zero interest in them) and be more consistent with their programming schedule.

Til then, I rather watch Jungle Gold or something on a different channel that isn't garbage...

[–] emncaity 11 years ago

And even Jungle Gold (another guilty semi-pleasure) is doing the behind-the-scenes thing now. Don't know if you got to see the "escape the country under threat of arrest" episode that looks like it's the season finale (and possibly the series finale, I guess). Pretty interesting, assuming at least some of it wasn't overdramatized. But that was preceded by a "making of" show last week (or week before, I forget which).

But yeah, anyway...these behind-the-scenes things are getting ridiculous. It seems to me either a huge ego trip for producers and directors, or filler for weeks when they don't have an actual show. Or both. Some minimal amount of "the making of" stuff is occasionally interesting, but when it starts being as long as the actual show, not so much. It gets to the point where you have this absurdly redundant structure in which people do things on the actual show, then they comment on them in the snippet interviews (already ridiculous...like, for instance, Todd does X on camera, then cut to shot of Todd talking about how he did X, which we just saw him do -- standard reality-show stretch-it-out stuff), and THEN, you have the behind-the-scenes show where the producer asks Todd to talk about how he talked about doing X during the actual episode, and so forth. It's like watching money get leveraged over and over again, to the point where all value was wrung out some time ago.

[–] jasonstickets 11 years ago

The new season starts in October bro. Those shows were just to set up the new season of Gold Rush.

[–] soot182 11 years ago

Finally an answer to whats been goin on tyvm!

SILENCE....I KILL YOU!!

[–] emncaity 11 years ago

Just a follow-up -- I'm having a helluva hard time verifying that October "new season" or "new episodes" thing, and by "helluva hard time" I mean I've spent about 17 minutes poking around looking for any and all info, links, the Discovery Channel site, etc., and can find nothing. On the other hand, I'm inclined to believe the previous poster because I just don't think they'd do four episodes, introduce a whole new line for Parker and the Dakotas, and then just drop it.

I don't understand why so many of those shows do this sort of thing now. There's little regularity or predictability to so many of them and to so many of the companies that produce and air them. It's sort of like holding a party that starts out as every other Thursday, but soon becomes a matter of "whenever we announce it, if you can find out from somebody when that is."

[–] emncaity 11 years ago

ah-HA. So the past several episodes were not a season, then(?).

I am taking the position that you know what you're talking about.

[–] odoel 11 years ago

I cant stand the behind the scenes BS, that douche executive producer just wants to be in the limelight

[–] emncaity 11 years ago

You said it.

[–] audioguy22 10 years ago

. . it's on now . . oct 25-th

[–] emncaity 10 years ago

Yeah, thanks...I made the whole household act like the world had stopped turning for a couple of hours, while we heard Todd's homilies and all the noble music and such...all is right with the world again. [sigh...God help me, I love it so...]