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Thom Beers Thom Beers (born c. July 20, 1952) is an American television producer and narrator/voice-over artist. Beers, a former producer and executive with Turner Broadcasting and Paramount Syndicated Television, has produced more than 40 television series since the mid-1990s, most under the banner of his own production company formed in 1999, Original Productions, for which he serves as CEO and Executive Producer. Beers produces some of the shows on the Discovery Channel family of networks, including "Deadliest Catch" (for which he received Emmy nominations in 2006 and 2007), "Lobster Wars", "Monster Garage", "Monster House", and "". He is the
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the "Suicide Missions" (later "Dangerous Missions") series. Based on Edith Iglauer's book "Denison's Ice Road", the episode details the treacherous job of driving trucks over frozen lakes, also known as ice roads, in Canada's Northwest Territories. After 2000, reruns of the documentary were aired as an episode of the series "Modern Marvels" instead. Under this banner, the "Ice Road Truckers" show garnered very good ratings. In 2006, The History Channel hired Thom Beers, owner of Original Productions and executive producer of "Deadliest Catch", to create a series based on the "Ice Road" book. Shot in high definition (although the season
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Original Productions Original Productions, LLC is a television production company based in Burbank, California. It was founded in 1999 by Thom Beers. It is best known for producing reality television shows for the Discovery Channel but has more recently produced shows for other networks such as History, truTV, and Spike. Some of its most popular shows are "Deadliest Catch", "Ice Road Truckers", "Ax Men", and "1000 Ways to Die". Its earlier hit was "Monster Garage". Thom Beers founded Original Productions in 1999, when Discovery asked him to produce the two-hour special "Extreme Alaska". On February 20, 2009, FremantleMedia acquired 75%
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broadcast and cable networks, syndication, and digital (online & mobile) platforms. In addition, Fremantle owns several other smaller production companies; among these are Thom Beers' Original Productions (responsible for creation and production of numerous reality shows such as "Deadliest Catch", "Ax Men", and "Ice Road Truckers") and Amygdala Music, Leslie Beers' production and composition firm that writes themes, incidental, and featured music for Original Productions shows. 495 Productions has specialised in developing programs. In November 2011, it was announced that FremantleMedia were to reorganise the British operations from 1 January 2012. Talkback Thames brand would be split into four different
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Black Gold (TV series) Black Gold is a reality-documentary television series that chronicles three oil drilling rigs in Andrews County, Texas, 30 miles northwest of Odessa. It was partly produced by Thom Beers, creator of "Deadliest Catch" and "Ice Road Truckers". The "Black Gold" theme song was sung by country music star Trace Adkins. The title "Black Gold" comes from a slang term for oil. "Black Gold" aired Wednesday nights on truTV at 10pm. It is also shown as a special presentation on TNT in high definition. The show also airs in the United Kingdom on ITV4 and debuted in
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Ice Road Truckers Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is an American reality television series that premiered on History Channel, on June 17, 2007. It features the activities of drivers who operate trucks on seasonal routes crossing frozen lakes and rivers, in remote Arctic territories in Canada and Alaska. Seasons 3–6 also featured Alaska's improved but still remote Dalton Highway, which is mainly snow-covered solid ground. The newest seasons are mainly focused on Manitoba's winter roads. The series' eleventh season finished airing on November 9, 2017. In 2000, History aired a 46-minute episode titled "Ice Road Truckers" as part of
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ended before History HD was launched in the US), the show "charts two months in the lives of six extraordinary men who haul vital supplies to diamond mines and other remote locations over frozen lakes that double as roads". Update: According to news, Polar Industries is being sued for over $1M from vendors, and the yard is locked and appears empty as of Oct 3/18. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/manitoba-firms-sue-over-ice-road-truckers-491405481.html During the finale of the show's first season of 10 episodes, The History Channel aired a promo for season 2 which began airing on June 8, 2008. Season 1 of "Ice Road Truckers" was
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Dave Redmon (who has since been featured in Season 5 of "Ice Road Truckers"). As the season continued, the drivers were dispatched to carry supplies over the stormy Rohtang Pass to the town of Keylong, which had been cut off for months due to the bad weather. The season finale aired on December 5, 2010, with the truckers' attempting to deliver loads of jet fuel for helicopter crews who were working to rescue people stranded in the mountains by the storms. Yemm and Redmon turned back, deciding that the conditions were too hazardous for the volatile cargo; the next day,
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specials ran in the weeks following "The Final Run". "Then and Now" premiered on August 26, 2007 and provided a look into the development and future of Canada's ice roads. Clips from season 1 were featured, as well as further commentary from Rowland, Debogorski, and road pioneer John Denison. "Off the Ice" premiered on September 2, 2007, bringing all six truckers together for a chance to express their thoughts about the job and each other. "On the Edge" premiered on September 9, 2007, continuing the discussion and exploring the truckers' lives during the off season. A fourth special, "The Road
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On the way, their truck's radiator begins to leak; after they mend it, they must empty all their drinking water into the radiator to replace the loss. Abundant lithium deposits cause their magnetic compasses to read incorrectly, and for a time their GPS malfunctions. In February 2015, Tim Zickuhr pleaded guilty to kidnapping and extortion. Repeats of the "Deadliest Roads" series are currently airing on the digital broadcast network Quest. In 2008, 20th Century Fox acquired rights from the History Channel to create a scripted, theatrical action film based on the series. Ice Road Truckers Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated
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Mackenzie River and over parts of the Arctic Ocean, visiting Aput and Later Langley rigs with long stretches in which drivers are out of radio contact. The final regular episode premiered on September 7, 2008. Premiered on September 21, 2008. This episode provides a look back at the events of the season, with additional commentary from the truckers and support personnel. Topics covered include: Debogorski, Rowland, Sherwood, and Yemm take part in this season as "highway maggots"—rookies on the ice road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk. The following experienced truckers are also profiled. Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road Season 3 of Ice Road
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also connects to the village of Nuiqsut, on the banks of the Colville River. This road is roughly long and is used to resupply Alpine with critical supplies for operations as well as to transport drilling rigs. The 2008 film "Frozen River" tells the story of two women who get involved with trafficking illegal immigrants from Canada into the United States by driving them across the frozen St. Lawrence River in their car. Canada's and Alaska's ice roads were prominently featured in the History Channel show "Ice Road Truckers". Ice road An ice road (ice crossing, ice bridge) is a
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Truckers covers the Dalton Highway, which connects Fairbanks, Alaska, Coldfoot, Alaska, and Deadhorse, Alaska near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, as well as ice roads constructed over the Arctic Ocean in the Prudhoe Bay area. The tagline for the season is: "In the Dark Heart of Alaska, there's a road where hell has frozen over". In this season the 2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity caused complications; the truckers had to carry many loads which were intended for flight, but the planes could not fly because of volcanic ash in the air. The season premiered on May 31, 2009. The Dalton Highway (Alaska
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Jackson, and the dog's feeding/watering on the road was primarily handled by her Indian helper, Tashi. The dog was given away to one of the show's producers upon completion of filming. Lisa Kelly (trucker) Lisa Kelly (born December 8, 1980) is an American trucker who has been featured on the History channel reality television series "Ice Road Truckers" and its spinoff series "". From Seasons 3–5 and 7–11. Ice Road Truckers has followed Kelly and her fellow drivers as they make their way along the icy Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, frequently hauling "oversized" loads. Kelly has also
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The series premiered on June 17, 2007. Six ice road truckers are introduced, and are described as men driving eighteen wheelers who haul equipment and supplies from Yellowknife, Canada, across a temporary road composed of portages and frozen lakes, to one of three diamond mines northeast of Yellowknife. The final episode in season one premiered on August 19, 2007. The season has been of the most successful so far, with 10,922 loads totaling 331,000 tonnes (730 million pounds, or 365,000 U.S. tons) delivered. (Note: The total shown on screen is 662,000,000 pounds, corresponding to 331,000 US tons.) Three additional one-hour
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Lisa Kelly (trucker) Lisa Kelly (born December 8, 1980) is an American trucker who has been featured on the History channel reality television series "Ice Road Truckers" and its spinoff series "". From Seasons 3–5 and 7–11. Ice Road Truckers has followed Kelly and her fellow drivers as they make their way along the icy Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, frequently hauling "oversized" loads. Kelly has also made appearances in Seasons 1–2 of "IRT: Deadliest Roads". Kelly was notable as the only female trucker featured in the series until Maya Sieber joined in Season 5, and Stephanie "Steph"
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to communities as shortening ice road seasons permit, as the season’s two-part finale demonstrates. This season features all the truckers from the prior season with the exceptions of Hugh Rowland, Vlad Pleskot and Reno Ward. Debogorski, Dewey and Burke drive for Polar, while Darrell Ward and Kelly drive for their own company. Barnes appears in episode 8 to help Burke haul a load of fuel. Per the History Channel Website, Season 10 (which the site calls Season X or "IRT X") premiered on August 4, 2016 at 10/9c. Debogorski, Darrell Ward, Kelly, Dewey and Burke continue driving for their respective
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Highway in Alaska, working alongside the following local drivers at Carlile Transportation. Dalton Highway: Season 4 of "Ice Road Truckers" premiered on June 6, 2010. Debogorski, Rowland, Jessee, Hall, and Kelly continue driving the Dalton Highway for Carlile this season. Debogorski had a good season, stopping to help drivers in trouble on multiple occasions. Rowland spent the season trying to avoid the Department of Transport (DOT) Weigh station. Jessee was assigned some of the toughest loads, to be taken over some of the roughest roads. Kelly started out the season with goals to achieve: she wanted to try hauling heavier,
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recently ("Ice Road Truckers", "The London Markets" and "The Call Centre" have been broadcast recently). Jane Rackman of "Radio Times" called it "terrific viewing for fans of shows like "Monster Moves" – and there are as many characters as on "Ice Road Truckers" - while the sight of a German construction fair bristling with gigantic cranes is simply astounding." "The Daily Telegraph" named it in an article about terrible television shows and said: "The hi-viz crane jockeys of Manchester’s Ainscough Crane Hire are no doubt very good at their jobs, and if you ever want a wind turbine or a
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the investigation, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Todd Spencer, said "Truckers are just absolutely outraged that various media sources or the FBI would draw the conclusion that truckers are over-represented in the ranks of serial killers". The third season of the reality television show "Ice Road Truckers" premiered on the History Channel in 2009, documenting the lives of truck drivers working the Dalton Highway in Alaska. The show follows drivers as they compete to see who can haul the most loads before the end of the season, while avoiding the pitfalls of dangerous icy roads and
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Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road is an annual ice road first built in 1982 to service mines and exploration activities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada. Between long, the road is said to be the world's longest heavy haul ice road and operates for eight to ten weeks starting in the last week of January. Most of the road (85%–87%) is built over frozen lakes, , with the remaining built on over 64 land portages between lakes. This ice road was the location of the first season of Ice Road Truckers. The
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7, 2009 on Channel 5 in the UK. The first season was not aired in Canada until March 4, 2009 on History Television. The third season premiered on May 31, 2009 in the US; September 10 in the UK. Channel Five debuted series 3 on January 5, 2010. The series' premiere was seen by 3.4 million viewers to become the most-watched original telecast in the History Channel's 12-year history at that time. Among critics, Adam Buckman of the "New York Post" said, "Everything about 'Ice Road Truckers' is astonishing". Virginia Heffernan of "The New York Times" said, "Watching these guys
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operations for ice road crews and exploration personnel. In addition, the road was a key supply line for Tuktoyaktuk and the hamlet of Aklavik. A History channel blog announced that the second season of "Ice Road Truckers" would be based out of Inuvik. A CBC North story reported that the episodes of this season occur on the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road. Four of the featured drivers from the first season took part: Alex Debogorski, Hugh Rowland, Drew Sherwood, and Rick Yemm. The road returned in 2012 for the sixth season of the show, with Debogorski the sole featured driver behind the
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Yungas Road, notorious for its extreme hazards. The drivers work in pairs - Hugh Rowland and Rick Yemm, Lisa Kelly and Dave Redmon, and newcomers Timothy R. Zickuhr and Augustin "Tino" Rodriguez. Redmon and Yemm quit in Episode 2; Rowland continues driving alone, while Texas trucker G.W. Boles arrives to ride with Kelly in Episode 4. Starting with Episode 8, the truckers relocate to Peru and begin transporting loads to sites high in the Andes mountain range. In episode 6, Kelly and Boles transport 32 breeding llamas across the Salar de Uyuni, the world's biggest salt flat, above sea level.
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episode one of the History television channel series "Ice Road Truckers", when a convoy of truckers delivered supplies to the village. A road is being built to connect Nuiqsut to the road system, through Conoco Phillips Alpine Oil reserve. Nuiqsut first appeared on the 1980 U.S. Census as an incorporated city. It formally incorporated 5 years earlier in 1975. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 402 people residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 87.1% Native American, 10.0% White, 0.2% Black and 2.7% from two or more races. As of the census of
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the Dempster Highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories. Rowland, Debogorski, Sherwood, and Yemm take part as "highway maggots" (rookies on this road), working alongside the more experienced drivers. The season premiere aired on June 8, 2008. As the ice road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk is completed, drivers converge on Inuvik for the start of the year's transport season. Debogorski, Rowland, Yemm, and Sherwood find themselves lumped in with the other "highway maggots" - the local drivers' term for rookies on this road - and must adapt to new rules and conditions. The road takes them up the
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throughout the season). The trucks driven by Sherwood and White had a multitude of mechanical problems. After Sherwood's departure, Rowland hired a fourth driver named Danny Reese. In the final episode of the first season, Rowland's luck finally ran out when his truck was sideswiped by another trucker on the ice road, knocking a driving axle off the chassis. He ended up finishing the season in the truck originally driven by Yemm. During Season 1, the floor heater in his truck was malfunctioning. This was a major source of tension between Rowland, the truck's owner, and Yemm, who expected Rowland
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episode 8, "A Trucker’s Farewell". After the accident Tilcox is injured while tying down a load, and several days later experiences severe abdominal pain which becomes so bad that he has to be flown out to receive medical care. Tilcox is able to return to the ice roads after being treated for his injuries. The expense of his treatment is highlighted on the show as a cause of concern for Tilcox. Despite his ordeals, Tilcox gains respect for the job and the people who do it, as well as self-satisfaction for having completed the entire season — a rare feat
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March or early April, and Yellowknife becomes the dispatch point for the large number of truck drivers that come north to drive on the ice roads. During the 2007 ice road season, several drivers were featured on the History Channel TV series "Ice Road Truckers". Tourism is the largest renewable industry in the NWT and Yellowknife is the main entry point for visitors. Many tourists come to experience the Northern climate and traditional lifestyle, as well as to see the aurora. In 2004-05, visitors to the territory spent C$100.5 million. The City of Yellowknife raises 50% of its operating revenue
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up where he left off, yet ends up suffering through problems in that truck, as well (as seen in episode 7). Hugh Rowland, the truck's owner, and Lee Parkinson, Rowland's mechanic, blamed many of these mechanical problems squarely on Sherwood. Sherwood ultimately decides enough is enough and leaves the ice roads to return home. Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road: The first portion of the road is on pavement, following the Ingraham Trail for roughly until it reaches the shore of Tibbitt Lake. Season 2 premiered on June 8, 2008, following the drivers on the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, a extension of
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loads for First Nations for the first eight episodes under contract through Polar). For Carlile, Kelly and three other truckers haul freight on the Dalton, and Hall appears in two episodes to deliver heavy loads. Kromm returns to train rookie drivers, notably Redmon and Sieber, and later advises Lane Keator to fire Redmon. Canada Alaska The focus of this season is split among three locations, listed in "Route and destinations" below. Debogorski, Rowland, and Yemm continue driving in Canada for this season, moving cargo along the Dempster Highway (Debogorski) and Manitoba's winter roads (Rowland and Yemm). Jessee (seasons 3 and
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making a mad dash for money and taking excessive risks to do so. Also, the companies felt the cameras and filming created distractions for the drivers. As a result, the owners decided not to participate in future seasons of the show, and a new rule for the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Roads was enacted for the 2008 season, prohibiting commercial, media, video, or rolling film cameras either inside or attached to the outside of vehicles. In response, the show's producers located an alternate ice road for season 2. There were several differences in style among Seasons 1, 2, and 3:
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these ventures, she decided to settle on a long term-career and trained as a trucker because it 'looked interesting'. She subsequently got a job driving for Carlile Transportation, an Alaskan haulage company. Being a woman, Kelly says this was a difficult achievement. "I had to work twice as hard. I had to pull my weight and everybody else's and get the job done as fast, or faster"; Kelly is one of the truckers for the History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers". She first appeared in season 3 (Seasons 1 and 2 had been set in Canada) in 2009, as the only
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bigger loads and have a go at push-truck driving; she also aimed to save enough money to buy back her horse. Both goals she eventually achieved. Dalton Highway: The truckers make stops at Fairbanks, Coldfoot, Deadhorse and the oilfields of Prudhoe Bay as in Season 3, as well as the following new destinations: Some heavy haul loads bound for Prudhoe Bay originated in Anchorage and reached Fairbanks via the Glenn Highway and George Parks Highway before going on the Dalton. The focus of this season is split between two locations. One group drives the Dalton Highway, moving freight between Fairbanks
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to Season 2", aired on June 1, 2008. This hour presented highlights from the first season and gave a preview of things to come in the second one. During the course of Season 1, all three of Rowland's hired drivers end up prematurely leaving the ice road. White was banished for excessive speeding (episode 5), Yemm left following heated disagreements about the working condition of Rowland's trucks (episode 9), and Sherwood left after several vehicle breakdowns (episode 7). Rowland's truck is called "The Crow's Nest" and is kept in good condition, as was Yemm's truck, besides the heater (as seen
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for a rookie (as mentioned in the finale). He leaves with the respect and admiration of his fellow ice road veterans. Sherwood's hard luck, unfortunately, did not stop there, and he was plagued with a frustrating amount of mechanical problems. For starters, he loses his battery box and batteries (resulting in two days lost while a replacement box is fabricated on the spot), suffers a flat tire, and then experiences problems with his truck’s on-board computer that forces him to abandon a load on the roadside. Sherwood ends up driving the truck of expelled driver Todd White just to pick
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shown in the United Kingdom, Australia and various countries in Africa. The show opening features a truck falling through the ice. While real accidents with fatal outcomes might be mentioned, the show has never featured them and indeed, the show opening is a miniature model filmed inside a studio. A season 1 rumor that the sequence was staged using a real truck and dynamite caused discontent among the drivers. The mining companies that owned the road where the first season was filmed felt the show portrayed the road in a negative fashion. They believed the show depicted drivers as cowboys
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Route 11) serves as only road link between Alaska's populated areas down south and the oil rigs of the arctic north, to bring supplies nearly from Fairbanks to the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields and offshore rigs. However, the combination of avalanches, strong Arctic winds leading to whiteouts, and unforgiving terrain has led to hundreds of accidents in past years. Two thousand loads must be moved up the road within 12 weeks, before the ice melts on the Arctic Ocean. The season finale aired on August 23, 2009. Rowland and Debogorski take part in this season as newcomers to the Dalton
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from 1902 to 1912, then reopened in 1984. Coldfoot Airport, on the west side of the Dalton Highway, consists of a 4,000-foot (1220 m) gravel strip. Coldfoot has been featured on the third and fourth seasons of "Ice Road Truckers", a Canadian reality television series airing on the History Channel. The show, which dramatizes trucking on the Dalton Highway, often features truckers transporting equipment to the oil companies located in or around the Prudhoe Bay area. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Coldfoot first appeared on the 2000 U.S.
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and Deadhorse with occasional side trips to Nuiqsut and Anchorage. Meanwhile, a second group transports loads between Winnipeg, Manitoba, and several remote communities over winter and ice roads. The on-screen graphics for type and weight of each load hauled featured in the first four seasons were discontinued with Season 5, now only showing time of day or temperature depending on the situation. Debogorski and Rowland return to Canada, and Yemm (seasons 1 and 2) joins them for this season to drive the ice roads in Manitoba, Debogorski for First Nations Transport, and Rowland and Yemm for Polar Industries (also hauling
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adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff's "The Eagle of the Ninth", in which he played Esca, and the film version of "The Likely Lads", "Z Cars," "The Tomorrow People," "Coronation Street," "Brookside," "Bergerac" and "Casualty." More recently, he has worked extensively as a voice artist, featuring in many radio plays and on Audiobooks. He is known for his narration of "Ice Road Truckers" on the Discovery Channel, as well as "MegaStructures" for United Kingdom channel, Five. In 2004, Rodska guest-starred in the "Doctor Who" audio drama "Faith Stealer". He continues to act on television, recently appearing on "Doc Martin" and as DI
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include the 818 back hauls south, totalling . The road was open for 73 days from January 27 to April 9, only closed for a total of 91.5 hours (70 hours due to storms and 21.5 hours due to minor incidents). There were over 700 drivers registered during 2007 with nine accidents and one minor injury (a bruised shoulder). During the record 2007 season, there were 99 verbal, 5 written warnings and 5 speeding violations. Nine five-day suspensions and seven season suspensions were issued. In 2007 the road was featured on The History Channel series called "Ice Road Truckers". The
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The road was once featured on the BBC show "", in Episode 6 of "Top Gear" series 14) where the hosts travelled from the Bolivian rainforest to the Pacific Ocean. A Mitsubishi Outlander TV commercial was the first ever filmed on the road. The second season of "IRT: Deadliest Roads", a spin-off of the History Channel series "Ice Road Truckers", follows six North American drivers as they haul cargo along the road. The road also featured in the third episode of Hamish and Andy's "Gap Year South America" on Australia's Nine Network in 2014. The road also featured on the
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Fire and Ice (1986 film) Fire and Ice () is a German feature length sports film directed by Willy Bogner in 1986. John (John Eaves) and Suzy (Suzy Chaffee) meet while skiing in Aspen, Colorado. They run into each other again in New York and John follows her around the country. While the movie has a plot, it is essentially irrelevant. The movie contains mainly freestyle skiing scenes with Willy Bogner as director and cameraman. John Denver does the voiceover narration for the English-language version, Emil Steinberger for the German version. Besides skiing scenes, the movie contains snowboarding, hanggliding and
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nearby. Daniel Sekulich Daniel Sekulich is a Canadian journalist, director and documentary filmmaker who has worked in various places including Vietnam, Russia, Bosnia and the Arctic. He has written book reviews for the Arts section of "The Globe and Mail", and authored the books, "Terror On The Seas", and "Ocean Titans". He is the director of the documentaries "Borderline", "" and "Deadly Inheritance", and has worked on the television series "Ice Road Truckers", "Cold Water Cowboys" and "Greatest Tank Battles". Sekulich’s first book was "Ocean Titans: Journeys in Search of the Soul of a Ship" (2006 in Canada), in which
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Daniel Sekulich Daniel Sekulich is a Canadian journalist, director and documentary filmmaker who has worked in various places including Vietnam, Russia, Bosnia and the Arctic. He has written book reviews for the Arts section of "The Globe and Mail", and authored the books, "Terror On The Seas", and "Ocean Titans". He is the director of the documentaries "Borderline", "" and "Deadly Inheritance", and has worked on the television series "Ice Road Truckers", "Cold Water Cowboys" and "Greatest Tank Battles". Sekulich’s first book was "Ocean Titans: Journeys in Search of the Soul of a Ship" (2006 in Canada), in which he
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"Recovering the forests of yesterday to save the forests of tomorrow," reflecting their commitment to never cut down a live tree. His son James is active in the business, leaving to work for Collins River Logging in Season 3 and returning to S&S in Season 4. This company, based in Port Angeles, Washington, was founded by Craig Rygaard in 1992. His sons Gabe, Jason and Burt are his business partners. Craig retires at the end of Season 6 and turns the business over to Gabe. One of the company's support truckers is Todd Dewey, who is also an ice road
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a government-issued permit. Illegally removing fossils from the Colville River, or other public lands, can expose a violator to steep fines or jail time. In a region with virtually no roads, the Colville River serves as one of the transportation arteries in the Alaska arctic. In the summer, small motorboats transport indigenous subsistence hunters, paleontologists, geologists, and others working or hunting in the region. When the river freezes to a suitable thickness during winter, it can be used as an ice road to bring in supplies, as seen during the fourth season of the History Channel series "Ice Road Truckers".
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the shows page from their website. The style of the show is somewhat similar to another show on the History Channel dealing with operation of large trucks, "Ice Road Truckers". The show highlights the contrived activities of several crews of recovery agents all over the US who perform various recoveries of stolen or abandoned vehicles or rescues of incapacitated vehicles. The men get paid for their recovery actions and can receive bonuses for successful recovery of the cargo or contents of the trailers. On March 22, 2017, Vince Jones, a star on the show died of a suspected heart attack.
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"The Men Who Killed Kennedy" in 2003. Kutner was one of three historians commissioned to review the documentary, which the channel disavowed and never aired again. Programs such as "Modern Marvels" have been praised for their presentation of detailed information in an entertaining format. Some of the network's series, including "Ice Road Truckers", "Ax Men", and "Pawn Stars", garnered increased viewership ratings in the United States, while receiving criticism over the series' nonhistorical nature. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is a critic of the channel and its lack of historical or educational programming, showing particular disdain for the latter two programs.
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winter road to Lac de Gras is opened to trucking of mining supplies, the junction being along the Ingraham Trail. The road condition has suffered due to its frequent use by heavy trucks. This is shown on the first season of the American reality television series, "Ice Road Truckers", which airs on History. The Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road also extends from the end of the Ingraham Trail to Contwoyto Lake in Nunavut, forming Nunavut's only connection to the road network in the rest of Canada. The Ingraham Trail is named after Vic Ingraham, a pioneer Yellowknife businessman of the
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1960s did it become the modern highway now designated Interstate 5. The summit “towering 4310 ft straight up and straight down with curves thrown in for variety”, has enough space for parking two lanes of rigs on both flanks of the road. Since the gradient is about 6%, it is a preferred place for truckers to park, refuel, check the condition of their vehicles, and rest. The road down from the summit on the north side is steep and winding. During winter, reaching the summit can be a challenge due to snow and ice on the pavement. Since 2008, with
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to #2 on Amazon's bestseller list for holiday books. Lent was then part of the Authors@Google series, in which he travelled to Google Headquarters to discuss "Christmas Letters From Hell". Also in 2007, Lent created and co-wrote "Prey: Origin of the Species", a graphic novel published by Marvel Comics and Dabel Brothers Publishing. He is the co-writer of "On Thin Ice," published by Hyperion Books in 2010, based on the life of Hugh Rowland, one of the stars of Ice Road Truckers and IRT Deadliest Roads on the History Channel. In 2008, Lent worked as a writer on the video
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Martin Katz (producer) Martin Katz is a Canadian film and television producer, who is president of the production firm Prospero Pictures and the current president of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Prior to establishing Prospero Pictures, Katz was a producer with Atlantis Entertainment, and executive producer of MSNBC Canada. As a producer, his credits include the television series "My Life as a Dog", "Married Life", "" and "Ice Road Truckers", and the films "Keeping the Promise", "The Claim", "The Gospel of John", "Hotel Rwanda", "Spider", "It's a Boy Girl Thing", "Shake Hands with the Devil", "Inconceivable", "The Making
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Tom Cotcher Tom Cotcher (born 28 July 1950) is a Scottish actor who played Alan Woods in "The Bill" from 1992 to 1996. He also appeared briefly in an earlier episode of the police saga (as did several of the cast) as a local resident with a missing dog. Since then he has appeared in "Taggart" and "Night and Day", and in October 2007 as a doctor in "EastEnders". He has also made appearances as Chief Superintendent Hobbs in River City. Tom is the narrator on the UK editions of Ice Road Truckers. He is a husband and father living
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Kelly hauled the entire shipment herself and delivered it to the crews, becoming the only North American trucker to complete the entire season. The roads were often hacked out of vertical cliffs like a tunnel with one side open to the air, with rock overhangs overhead and drops of several hundred feet below. One part of the road was called "the Freefall Freeway". Early promotional spots for the series listed the title as "IRT: Himalayas". The second season of "IRT: Deadliest Roads" premiered on September 25, 2011. Six North American drivers are sent to Bolivia to haul cargo along the
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The focus of this season is the winter road network originating in Winnipeg. Debogorski, Kelly, and Ward relocate to Winnipeg this season and begin driving for Polar Industries. Rowland and Pleskot return as well, leaving Polar to start their own trucking company, VP Express. This season all drivers from season 7 return to Winnipeg, and the same companies, Polar and VP Express, are shown. This is also the first season in which the program is a US / Canadian co-production, with Prospero Media and Shaw Media (owners of the Canadian "History" franchise) producing the show with Original Productions and History
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Decker Watson Decker Watson (born Richard Decker Watson, Jr.) is an advertising creative director turned television executive producer. With a career built chronicling the world’s deadliest professions, Watson honed his skills over land, air and sea in remote locales from Alaska's arctic to the Indian Himalayas. Watson is best known for television shows such as Deadliest Catch (Discovery), Ice Road Truckers, IRT: Deadliest Roads (both History), Swords: Life On The Line (Discovery), Black Gold (TruTV), The Baja 1000 (Feature Film), Championship Off Road Racing (NBC) and The Hills (MTV). As the executive producer of Deadliest Catch Watson has overseen more
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Decker Watson Decker Watson (born Richard Decker Watson, Jr.) is an advertising creative director turned television executive producer. With a career built chronicling the world’s deadliest professions, Watson honed his skills over land, air and sea in remote locales from Alaska's arctic to the Indian Himalayas. Watson is best known for television shows such as Deadliest Catch (Discovery), Ice Road Truckers, IRT: Deadliest Roads (both History), Swords: Life On The Line (Discovery), Black Gold (TruTV), The Baja 1000 (Feature Film), Championship Off Road Racing (NBC) and The Hills (MTV). As the executive producer of Deadliest Catch Watson has overseen more
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featured road on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth seasons of the History reality television series "Ice Road Truckers", which aired May 31, 2009 to present. It is also the subject of the second episode of "America's Toughest Jobs" and the first episode of the BBC's "World's Most Dangerous Roads" featuring Charley Boorman and Sue Perkins. Polar bears are known to traverse the Arctic region of Alaska and can be seen wandering the outskirts of the Dalton Highway. If that occurs, the Alaska DOT will shut down the road in the presence of polar bears. The wandering is an indication
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exploits of a truck driver and his chimpanzee companion. Another was "Movin' On", starring Claude Akins and Frank Converse. On 17 June 2007, the History Channel began to air "Ice Road Truckers", a documentary-style reality television series following truck drivers as they drive across the ice roads in the Northwest Territories in Canada, as they transport equipment to the oil and natural gas mines in that area. Truck driver A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a lorry driver, or driver in
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rated History channel debut since "Ice Road Truckers" in 2007. The September 8, 2010, episode "Laurel & Hardy" garnered Nielsen ratings as high as 5.3 million viewers in the 25–54 age group. As of that episode, the show retained the title of #1 new non-fiction series of 2010 among all viewers and adults 25–54. American Pickers American Pickers is an American reality television series that premiered on January 18, 2010 on the History channel, produced by A&E Television Networks in collaboration with Cineflix Media. The show follows antique and collectible pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz who travel around the
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... make their runs, it’s hard not to share in their cold, fatigue and horrible highway hypnosis, that existential recognition behind the wheel late at night that the pull of sleep and the pull of death are one and the same. ... [I]t gets right exactly what "Deadliest Catch" got right, namely that the leave-nothing-but-your-footprints, green kind of eco-travelers are too mellow and conscientious to be interesting to watch. Instead, the burly, bearded, swearing men who blow methyl hydrate into their own transmissions and welcome storms as breaks from boredom ... are much better television." During 2007 the series was
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roads also exist as one-way stretches. Exit and entrance ramps for freeways and motorways are among common examples of one-way single-track roads. The most common example of private single-track roads are long driveways of rural properties such as country houses and farm property. The mountain passes on the Dalton Highway in Alaska have a rule where goods-carrying northbound truck traffic has the right of way, while returning southbound traffic has to stop, as mentioned on "Ice Road Truckers". The reason behind this procedure is that traffic going north is in somewhat of a hurry to deliver equipment to Deadhorse, Prudhoe
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police officer and convinces her that if he does not get to her brother and his crew fast, they could get seriously injured or killed by the truckers who have begun to carry firearms. As Brian and Mia race out to stop Dominic from making another highway robbery, two of his drivers, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and Vincent, are injured in the process, with Letty rolling her car on the side of the road and Vincent being shot in the side by a shotgun from the truck driver who they tried to hijack. Brian saves Vincent only to reveal to Dom
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Slut," "D-R-U-N-K," "Poontang," and "If You're Gonna Be Dumb." Wade's lesser known works are less hysterical and carry a more lyrical tone including "The First Time I Saw Waylon," "Brainerd Road," and "Jingle Jangle". Wade wrote "The Light Outlives the Star" for a friend of his daughter who died in an automobile accident and was later a tribute to his friend and fan Ryan Dunn, who died in a car accident on June 20, 2011. Wade currently does voiceover work for WUUQ 97.3 and 99.3 FM, a classic country station in Chattanooga, TN. He also hosts "The Big-Ass Happy Family
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as part of the UCLA Extension Arts Reach Program, he taught writing to inmates at the Chino Men’s Prison. Michael Lent (writer and producer) Michael Lent is a mixed media writer and producer based in Los Angeles. He is best known as the co-writer of "On Thin Ice", the memoirs of Hugh Rowland, one of the stars of the long-running series Ice Road Truckers. Michael Lent received a BA in American Studies from Hamilton College, and an MFA in Screenwriting and Film from the University of Miami. Lent began his career interning in the On-Air Promotions Department at MTV Networks
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shown on the British national commercial channel Channel Five in February/March 2008. In Australia it aired on Austar and Foxtel in early 2008 and from June 18 it also began being shown on Network Ten. In autumn 2008 season one aired on RTL 7 in the Netherlands. In Italy the first season premiered on History Channel on January 7, 2010 as "Gli eroi del ghiaccio" (English: "Heroes of the ice"). The second season premiered on June 8, 2008 in the US; October 9, 2008 on History in the UK and in Australia; November 12, 2008 in New Zealand; and January
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Michael Lent (writer and producer) Michael Lent is a mixed media writer and producer based in Los Angeles. He is best known as the co-writer of "On Thin Ice", the memoirs of Hugh Rowland, one of the stars of the long-running series Ice Road Truckers. Michael Lent received a BA in American Studies from Hamilton College, and an MFA in Screenwriting and Film from the University of Miami. Lent began his career interning in the On-Air Promotions Department at MTV Networks where he worked with producers Ted Demme, Mark Pellington, John Payson, and Abby Terkuhle. From 1997-2007, he was a
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Listener and Forester in "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship" and also for the voice of "The Thing" in another Cosgrove Hall production, "Truckers", based on a book by Terry Pratchett. Edward Kelsey Edward Kelsey (born 4 June 1930 in Petersfield, Hampshire) is an English actor of stage and screen, as well as a voiceover artist. He is best recognized as the voice of Joe Grundy on the long-running BBC radio soap opera "The Archers" and for voicing various other characters on television. In 1954 Kelsey joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carlton Hobbs Bursary
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second season of the History Channel series "Ice Road Truckers", which took place in the area. Her current certificate of registry expires in June 2019. GSI Mariner GSI Mariner is a Canadian research/survey ship. She was built and used originally by Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI) to record seismic data on the Mackenzie River delta and the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean. Later she was owned by other companies, including Halliburton Canada. She is currently beached on the banks of the Mackenzie south of Inuvik, near the beginning of the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road. "GSI Mariner" was built in 1971 in
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Pool" (1975), "Aloha, Bobby and Rose" (1975), "The Hollywood Knights" (1980), and "The Long Days of Summer" (1980). Leigh also appeared as Goober Pyle's (George Lindsey) sister on a pilot episode for a sitcom called "Goober & the Truckers' Paradise". The show, in which Goober and his sister managed a highway truck stop, was not picked up by the networks. French has worked steadily, if quietly, over the years, primarily behind the scenes and doing voiceover roles in animated features. Leigh French Leigh French (born July 14, 1945) is an American actress. French was born in Ashland, Kentucky. In her
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former chairman & CEO of FremantleMedia's US division, FremantleMedia North America. Beers narrates for many of the shows he produces. He narrated for several Discovery Channel series like "", and "Verminators"; in addition to narrating most of Original Productions' shows (Beers narrated the pilot for "Deadliest Catch" but turned over series narration duties to fellow Discovery Channel personality Mike Rowe after the series was picked up), he can be heard narrating many shows on Discovery Health Channel, including "". In 2007, he produced and narrated "Ice Road Truckers" for the History Channel and narrated "Ax Men" in 2008 about logging.
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song for the first four seasons of History's reality television show "Ice Road Truckers", from 2007 to 2011. The song is also playable on the video game "" and is available as DLC for Guitar Hero 5 and . The music video was featured in an earlier showing of the "Beavis and Butt-Head" episode "At the Sideshow", before being replaced by "Rock On" by Michael Damian and "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring. The song is also the theme song for Supertalk Mississippi's "The JT Show". The song is also used as the theme song of a Pakistani dare show by
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(as seen in the end credits of each episode). Season 8 premiered on July 7, 2014. Darrell Ward, Art Burke, and Lisa Kelly drive for Polar. Todd Dewey switches from VP Express to Polar. Alex Debogorski drives for longtime rival Hugh Rowland’s and Vlad Pleskot’s VP Express. After a tense verbal exchange with Polar owner Mark Kohaykewych, Darrell quits Polar in episode 5, frustrated with repeated truck breakdowns and how few loads he has been given, and goes into business for himself. Joey Barnes appears in episode 10 to escort Burke on a delivery run through the Manitoba wilderness, after
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Outback Truckers Outback Truckers is an Australian factual television series which looks at the Australian road-transport industry. It focuses on selected drivers and interesting personalities and shows the problems tackled by some sectors. It originally screened on the Seven Network in 2012 and currently airs on 7mate. It has aired around the world on networks such as Quest TV (UK) and Discovery Europe. Season 6 is due to air in Australia 2018. In July 2017 one of the cast members, Sonya Wise, passed away. Sonya and her husband, Greg, featured in season 3 of Outback Truckers. Outback Truckers Noelene Turner
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on The History Channel in a July 2006 documentary called "Alaska: Dangerous Territory". When they returned to History in the television series "Ice Road Truckers" in 2009, they were hauling approximately 30% of all loads bound for Prudhoe Bay. Carlile would be one of the featured companies of the series from Season 3 (2009) through Season 6 (2012). The company was purchased by Seattle, Washington-based Saltchuk on May 31, 2013. Harry McDonald serves as Alaska Director for Saltchuk. Carlile Transportation Carlile Transportation Systems is a transportation company based in Anchorage, Alaska. Their primary specialty is transporting freight and supplies related
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new company before his death following season 10. She is now just finished season 11. In 2008, Lisa married Traves Kelly, after dating him for four years. He is full Aleut Native Alaskan and an avid dirtbiker. They have no children. Her hobbies include motocross, horse riding, skydiving, hang gliding and snowboarding. She owns a miniature horse, named Rocky and a cat named Tanzi. Prior to the filming of "Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads" in the Himalayas, Kelly had decided that she would find and carry around a puppy for the show. On the show she named this puppy Rampur
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Bunim-Murray Productions as Executive Vice-President, Segal joined Original Productions in 2006 as an Executive Producer.[5] He was Chief Executive Officer of Original from 2012 to 2017. He previously served as President,[5] Segal left Original Productions in April 2017. His credits include Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men for The History Channel, The Colony, Pitchmen, Swords: Life on the Line for Discovery Channel, 1000 Ways to Die for Spike, Black Gold for Tru TV, Wildlife Warriors and Cut in Half for National Geographic Channel, and Storage Wars for A&E. Segal lives in Glendale, California and in Medford, Oregon. Philip Segal Philip
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"Twin City Bridge: After the Collapse" for National Geographic Channel. They developed and co-executive produced the Lifetime Original Movie, "Karoke Superstars", "Delta Divers" series for National Geographic Channel and National Geographic International and "Virgin Galactic: Will It Fly?" that aired on National Geographic Channel. Scott B helped develop and was director of photography on the pilot for History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers". Scott B and Beth B Scott B and Beth B (also known as Scott and Beth B, Beth and Scott B or The Bs after B Movies) were among the best-known New York No Wave underground film makers
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Men of Excellence award and a spot on The Men on the Move calendar as well as several awards for his active community service. Orin Isaacs Orin Isaacs is a Canadian bass guitarist, record and television music producer, best known as the bandleader on Mike Bullard's late-night talk shows "Open Mike with Mike Bullard" and "The Mike Bullard Show". Isaacs' composing and production work can also be heard on The Launch, "Big Brother Canada", "Never Ever Do This at Home", "The Amazing Race Canada", "Chopped Canada", "Top Chef Canada", "The People's Couch", "Ice Road Truckers", "But I'm Chris Jericho", "Intervention
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specials into episodes of "Modern Marvels", such as "Ice Road Truckers", which originally aired in 2000 as part of the series "Suicide Missions". These episodes are not narrated by Raphael. Bruce Nash is credited with creating the series. Don Cambou has acted as executive producer on over 350 episodes for Actuality Productions, the production company behind the series. Modern Marvels Modern Marvels is an American worldwide television series that formerly aired on the History Channel. The program focuses on how technologies affect and are used in modern society. It is among History's first, and longest-running programs, having first aired on
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for an oversized load hauled by Kelly and Reno (episodes 5 and 6). On October 3, 2010, a spinoff series, titled "IRT: Deadliest Roads", premiered immediately after the Season 4 finale. Rick Yemm, Alex Debogorski, and Lisa Kelly traveled to India and put their driving skills to the test on the narrow, treacherous mountain roads that lead from Delhi to Shimla, then up to the Karchan and Kuppa hydroelectric dam construction sites in the Himalayas. Debogorski quit in the first episode due to fear of angry mobs if he were involved in an accident, and was replaced by Alabama trucker
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4) returns to drive the Dalton along with three newcomers, and Hall appears in one episode to help move a modular building up from Fairbanks. Near the end of the season, Veilleux (season 4) is called in to help transport the last loads up to Prudhoe Bay. Molesky and Kromm are involved in training drivers new to driving on the Dalton Highway for Carlile Transportation. Additionally, both Molesky and Kromm independently monitor other drivers' standards and behavior, and advise Fairbanks Terminal Manager Lane Keator if there are issues like those that led to Redmon and "Porkchop" being fired. Alaska Canada
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Darrell Ward Darrell Ward (August 13, 1964 – August 28, 2016) was an American reality television personality. He was a truck driver featured on "Ice Road Truckers" from Season 6 in 2012 until his death. He was from Deer Lodge, Montana, and died in a plane crash. On August 28, 2016, Ward died in a plane crash while travelling in a single-engine Cessna 182 with pilot Mark Melotz. They were attempting to land at a nearby airstrip in Rock Creek, Montana. The plane had departed 53 minutes earlier from Missoula for Rock Creek. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded the
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woman. She subsequently took part in season 4 (in 2010) and season 5 and 7. She also took part in the History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads" along with Rick Yemm, Dave Redmon and Alex Debogorski trucking in the Himalayas in India; in a later season, she drove in Bolivia and Peru. Journalist Kaye O'Hara claims that Kelly was offered a contract to return to the show for season six, but she declined it. According to show's producer Kelly was taking a year off. Kelly returned in season 7, and on season 9, she was working in Darrell Ward's
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cause of the accident to be "The sudden right turn on approach to landing for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination did not reveal any anomalies that would have precluded normal operation." Darrell Ward Darrell Ward (August 13, 1964 – August 28, 2016) was an American reality television personality. He was a truck driver featured on "Ice Road Truckers" from Season 6 in 2012 until his death. He was from Deer Lodge, Montana, and died in a plane crash. On August 28, 2016, Ward died in a plane crash while travelling in a single-engine Cessna 182 with
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by Darrell for the next season; she was undecided on switching sides. This was Hugh Rowland's final season, as he was involved in a 2014 pickup accident. On July 21, 2015, History announced season 9 would premiere August 2, 2015, at 9/8c. With the departure of Rowland and VP Express from the series due to a 2014 pickup accident which severely injured him while riding with one of the series’ producers, the "dash for the cash" theme is less emphasized from this season on. As a result, load counts are no longer shown, and the focus shifts to delivering loads
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Burke avoided being fired after jack-knifing his truck the previous trip. Also in episode 5, Burke was fined $490 and "shut down" (suspended from driving) for three days, due to multiple log-book infringements and over-working, from being stuck in the snowstorm on the previous round trip. In episode 12, Kelly, Burke, Dewey, Darrell and Reno all make it to Fort Severn, while Kelly decides to support Darrell and help him go further into Peawanuck. Kelly was not censured by Mark for her actions, as it was "a morally and ethically right thing to do," and she was offered a job
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to take care of the problem so that he could continue hauling loads without risking severe frostbite. Yemm ultimately quit and returned home, feeling his friend was not fulfilling his responsibilities to maintain the trucks. Yemm is known for being hard on the trucks by constantly beating on them. In one episode, Yemm is seen bouncing up and down, pumping the accelerator pedal up and down, and messing with the steering wheel, all the while facing the camera and saying "yee-haw motha fucker!" In Season 2, Debogorski had to leave early because of illness (a pulmonary embolism) as seen in
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and "Ice Road Truckers" showcase working-class people of the kind that "used to be routine" on scripted network television, but that became a rarity in the 2000s: "The better to woo upscale viewers, TV has evicted its mechanics and dockworkers to collect higher rents from yuppies in coffeehouses." Reality television has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, at least for a short period. This is most notable in talent-search programs such as "Idol" and "The X Factor", which have spawned music stars in many of the countries in which they have aired. Many other shows, however, have
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9 of "Ice Road Truckers". Cat train A Cat train is a train of one or more supply sleds/sleighs hauled by a continuous track vehicle, and is typically used in roadless areas. They are so named for the caterpillar tracks of the hauling vehicle. In northern climates, they were used to haul supplies to isolated communities in winter before engineers such as John Denison created modern winter roads which enabled standard winterized semi-trucks and trailers to haul these loads and heavier freight. Cat trains are still used in areas where winter roads cannot be built, such as along the Hudson
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companies. Mark Kohaykewych briefly drives Darrell’s truck, as well as a heavy loader to push trucks over steep hills during the two-part season finale convoy. This was Darrell Ward's final season, as he was killed in a plane crash on August 28, 2016. Season 11 premiered August 24, 2017 on History. Debogorski, Dewey, Burke and Custance continue driving for Polar, and Kelly continues to run the company she and Darrell Ward founded. Darrell's son Reno Ward (Season 8) joins the cast in episode 5, helping Kelly repay a debt to Polar owner Mark Kohaykewych. Mark also drives a pilot car
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Road Dog Trucking Road Dog Trucking is a truckers' talk radio channel on the Sirius XM Radio service. It covers subjects relevant to the trucking community, including politics, economics, and social issues. On February 17, 2009, the Sirius channel's programming merged with the programs heard on XM Radio's Open Road. Most of the programs from both services were retained. In 2003, Sirius launched its dedicated truckers channel Sirius Trucking Network. It retained the name until March 2006, when the channel was renamed to Road Dog Trucking. Open Road launched on XM with personnel from the America's Trucking Radio network, including
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the album was recorded during Jason Isbell's tenure with the Drive-By Truckers, two of his songs as performed by the Drive-By Truckers were also included. Though released in 2009, when Jay Gonzalez was already an official member of the band, he does not make an appearance on "The Fine Print" due to the recording dates of the tracks. The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities The Fine Print is a collection of unreleased material by the Drive-By Truckers mostly recorded throughout the making of their albums "Decoration Day" and "The Dirty South"; a highly prolific period for the
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crossing the pass with small planes; Anaktuvuk Pass is favored as the safer flying route.. The pass is often shown on the third and fourth seasons of the History Channel reality series "Ice Road Truckers", which focuses on the challenges of driving on the Dalton Highway. Atigun Pass Atigun Pass ( ), elevation , is a high mountain pass across the Brooks Range in Alaska, located at the head of the Dietrich River. It is where the Dalton Highway crosses the Continental Divide (at mile marker 244), and is the highest pass in Alaska that is maintained throughout the year.
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season in April 2010, the sixth season in November 2010, and the seventh season in April 2011. In January 2009, he presents "Ice Road Truckers" on channel W9. After the success of the first season, he then presents the second season. Still in 2009, he co-hosts with Alex Goude and Sandrine Corman the program "Total Wipeout" on M6. In February 2010, he presents with Sandrine Corman the first season of the French version of "Top Chef". He then presents alone the second season in January 2011, the third season in January 2012, and finally the fourth season in February 2013.
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birthplace of Marco Marra, a genomics expert, and Alex Debogorski of the television show "Ice Road Truckers". Berwyn, Alberta Berwyn is a village in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It is located approximately west of the Town of Peace River, southwest of the Town of Grimshaw, and northeast of the Duncan's First Nation reserve. The Municipal District of Peace No. 135's municipal office is located adjacent to Berwyn. The village was named after Berwyn, Denbighshire in Wales. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Berwyn recorded a population of 538 living in 232 of its 255
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in Alaska. Alaska State Troopers appear prominently and regularly on other TV reality shows such as "Ice Road Truckers", "Tougher in Alaska" and "Deadliest Catch". They were also featured occasionally on the show "Northern Exposure" as the Alaska State Police. Alaska State Troopers were highly visible during the 2008 Presidential campaign, providing security detail supplemental personnel to the US Secret Service while protecting former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Alaska State Troopers The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska. It
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programing such as Ice Road Truckers and . It is Broadcast on Friday at 8pm and regularly repeated. The show is filmed and broadcast in HD. Channel 5 describes the show as "The world's most fearless truck drivers face off in some of the world's most feared locations." "In an exciting new series commencing on Channel 5 this week, eight of the world’s most experienced truck drivers go head to head in some of the harshest environments on planet Earth. Drawn from England, Scotland, Canada, USA, Sri Lanka and Australia, they are challenged to navigate the most extreme routes across
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tend to add shows that the channel's management feel that a larger audience wants to see, thus leading to additional profits. By producing irrelevant or low-quality programming they can increase their ratings to a target audience, increase viewership and increase revenues. The degree of channel drift can vary: some of the nonconforming programming may retain some degree of association with the channel's original purpose (such as in the case of the History Channel, "Pawn Stars", "American Pickers", and "Top Shot"), while other programming may have no association whatsoever (such as "Ax Men" and "Ice Road Truckers"). Channel drift can also
Channel drift