Pictured: No episode of “Ice Road Truckers” ever
Following up on the success “Ice Road Truckers,” the History Channel has approved of several new reality series, including shows about artifact hunters and rivalries at a NASCAR track. My favorite, however, has to be the spin-off of “Ice Road Truckers”:
For next summer, [History president and GM Nancy] Dubuc plans to introduce “Extreme Trucking,” which takes the North American-based “Ice Road Truckers” format to locations worldwide where truckers navigate hazardous highways.
“There’s an endless supply of dangerous roads, and they’re in places where they’re highly unregulated,” she said. [THR]
“We’re always looking to develop new content where we have the chance to get footage of people falling to their deaths,” she continued, “and if it involves a big rig jack-knifing off a cliff and tumbling down a sheer rock face before exploding into a gruesome inferno, all the better.” Dubuc then added, “Our viewers deserve to see these brave truckers at work. Especially if they die.”
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History chn editors are simply idiots..big! time!!
Im driving in the artic, when it get winther for 2-3 month in the
faroe islands, and I guess some of my fellow truckers in greenland
will say the same, we drive under extreme condition but we are not
stupid, and when wind picks up to come back at us like a huricane we
dont take a fun ride over the next 300m high hill, we are not dumb,
so I say to that editor go to hell, please mam. it is extremly
dangerous what we do but we all like to see our sons and daugther and
come home again. so to the historial ch editor, mam make your living
a more honoral way!
Best regards
Bjarne Petersen
Ice trucker.
I knew that Diesel’s finishing move was called the “Jack Knife” before I knew what that word actually meant. Same goes for pall bearer and undertaker.
It’s official: Everyone involved with television is completely out of ideas.
At least they didn’t go for the obvious spin-off that just followed the one attractive chick driver. I guess VH1 is waiting to put her on a show where a bunch of pussies with tricked-out F150s that have never left pavement try to win her love.
I watch this show for the soothing, dulcet tones of John Walsh.
Burnsy, I think the first three words are made redundant by the 4th.
And yet they keep ignoring my pitch for Crystal Meth Roadhead Truckers.
There used to be a time when idly channel surfing and hitting the History Channel you could catch an episode of The World at War or maybe some documentary on the Battle of Cannae. Now it’s just this shit or, if you live in the UK, the Antiques fucking Roadshow.
Is it nitpicking to point out that the supply of dangerous roads is actually finite? Or should I just make a dick joke?
I’ll watch this show if they get this guy to drive the trucks: http://www.break.com/index/dodge-srt-10-burnout-and-roll-over-crash.html