when did dirty jobs go off the air
September 12, 2012
title: Dirty Jobs text: Dirty Jobs Dirty Jobs was a TV series on the Discovery Channel in which host Mike Rowe was shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees. The show, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, premiered with three pilot episodes in November 2003. It returned as a series on July 26, 2005, running for eight seasons until September 12, 2012. The show's setting was refocused in Australia for the eighth season, advertised as "Dirty Jobs Down Under". There is also a European edition of the show hosted by former Manchester United and Denmark goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. title: Dirty Jobs text: some local Discovery Channel feeds such as those of Southeast Asia and Australia, as well as on Discovery Channel Canada before finally being aired in the United States on March 3, 2009. Various episodes air in certain countries with different scenes. The show's theme song was originally Faith No More's "We Care A Lot" which features the lyrics, "Oh, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it". In the first half of 2007, it was replaced with a generic theme song by Matt Koskenmaki (who also did the other music cues for the show), due to rights issues; older title: Empty Nest text: to December 6, 1996, and on WGN from September 16, 1996 to March 26, 1999, with both stations airing the series as part of the regular syndication run (both TBS and WGN were superstations). In the subsequent decade, the series did not air on American television. Hallmark Channel, which also owns the rights to "The Golden Girls", picked up the rights to the show in early 2011 and aired it from February 26 to June 26 of that year, but eventually removed it altogether. Upon its launch on April 15, 2015, the new digital sub channel Laff began airing the title: Dirty Jobs text: in length (Rowe actually sang all the parts while Rowe's friend Matt played all the instruments). The extended song differs slightly from the shorter versions which aired previously, and even the words that are similar vary somewhat. Mike performed the song again with slightly different lyrics on the 150th Job Extravaganza with the Burning Embers. Discovery Channel issued the following statement in its publicity of the program: Discovery Channel has released over 130 episodes on DVD and on iTunes. Dirty Jobs Dirty Jobs was a TV series on the Discovery Channel in which host Mike Rowe was shown performing difficult, title: Tour of Duty (TV series) text: was the show's last. In its third season, CBS moved the show to the Saturday 9:00 p.m. time slot. Being forced to compete with NBC's "The Golden Girls" and "Empty Nest", the show's ratings dropped, and the show was canceled at the end of the season. Besides Carl Weathers, notable guest stars include Lee Majors, James Hong, Mako, Kelly Hu, Angela Bassett, Ving Rhames, Melora Hardin, and Michael Madsen. The series won an Emmy Award in 1988 for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, and it was nominated again in 1989 and 1990. Emmy Award nominations: Eddie Award nominations