rekees4300
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Shades of Ice Road Truckers. They went from Alaska to India and then South America. Still wondering how they drove across the Pacific? :confused3:
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Shades of Ice Road Truckers. They went from Alaska to India and then South America. Still wondering how they drove across the Pacific? :confused3:
Danno1
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radioman
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just watched thier after guyana show- todd is finally making the right decision. It appears that their producer realized honesty is what bolster the ratings.
I too watched this show when it first aired and thought it was entertaining. After a couple of episodes things happening on the show, like big pieces of gold equipment showing up with no explaination, mystery people all of a sudden on the show, it simply started not making any sense.
I googled Gold rush Alaska Fake and wow was I surprised. This entire show is scripted. Just like any regular tv show would be. All the "actors" are given a script for the days shooting. Its all staged. Any gold found is just a bonus. Everyone on the show is getting paid a salary. The "gold mine" for the prospectors is the money they recieve from the producers of the show.
After reading the information about the staged show it all made sense. How could they mine for the whole summer and not make expenses but come back again for the next season. Easy....Its all just another scripted tv show.
rekees4300
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ALL reality TV shows are scripted. Nobody would watch if there wasn't drama. If nobody watched then no sponsor money. No sponsor money then no show. What night(s) is Gold Rush on?
chopped
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There is the word.DRAMA. thats what sometimes makes TBN entertaining also.:licking::laughing: But at least on TBN we dont try to represent the real thing..:thumbsup:
Yes thanks Chopped. My point exactly. I enjoy a little entertainment from the tv but jeez dont try to fool the viewer. I dont know why these shows are not required to show a disclaimer at the beginning that what you are about to view has all been staged.
Alan L.
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I may be a fool but I don't believe it is totally scripted. They can't be that good as actors. Are they paid yes, that is how they partially finance the operation and remove some of the risk, but I believe a great deal of it is true and I don't think it is totally scripted. Very entertaining to me. I appears to me that the South America thing is done, they will go back to the Yukon and I hope the other crews are in the show also. I don't think they would have had an after show after one episode if the whole concentration was now going to go to the jungle. As for making a show the logistics of the production are just too difficult there. It gets cold in Alaska, but they don't have the jungle, snakes, skeeters, and malaria to deal with.
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I know for a fact it is all scripted and fake. One of my uncles former employees is a bush pilot in northern Canada. He actually flew some of the guys on the show, and was amazed at just how fake it is. He said nothing about the show is real.
dave1949
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Of course, it is entertaining to gather up some people and watch them try to do something they are clueless about for the most part. You start to feel sorry for them eventually, and identify with their problems. At that point you need to know how the story ends and that produces - ratings! It also plays heavily on the pioneer spirit that we like. But, when expensive equipment materializes with no income, that's a give away that it is more fake than real.