There’s an inherent tension there.”Ī lot of that tension came from Todd Hoffman. But if we get in their way too much, they can’t gold mine. We’re in their face driving them nuts 12 hours a day or whatever it is. They know that we’re making the show, obviously. “There’s an inherent push-pull when it comes to making the show. But there are years when we rub each other the wrong way,” Doyle said. “We’ve had years where certain guys are cooperating more than the others, and we aren’t rubbing each other the wrong. There has been conflict between the cast and crew over the years, some of which has been aired on The Dirt (more on that below). Rick’s trying to become the next Todd or the next Parker or the next Tony B.” We knew right away that when we met Tony that he was a larger-than-life character,” he said.Īnd now, Rick Ness and his crew are “really refreshing, kind of rewinding to the old days of Todd, starting from scratch, which I think the show needed. “Tony B., same thing, Raw and I felt the same way. … He’s proved to be the biggest part of the show, so far, right now.” “I don’t think I would have ever been able to predict that Parker would be as incredibly successful as a gold miner.
His relationship with his grandfather was truly endearing,” he said. “Parker, we knew the second Parker walked across the creek there in Alaska that we were on to something big. It’s been harder to figure out who we wanted to focus on and narrow it down.” You can go bust really damn quick,” Doyle said, suggesting this may happen during season 10.Īs to the show’s cast, Doyle said, “there’s an embarrassment of riches when it comes to gold miners: they’re inherently these big characters with big opinions and a no-b.s. “It doesn’t really matter how well you did last season, you can go bust in one season gold mining. There’s the potential for a lot to go wrong. If they’re too efficient or too good at it, it might not be as compelling, either,” he added. You want to see a ton of gold but you also don’t want them to get too good. “Honestly, in season 10, we’ve got some guys who are pretty damn good at gold mining. He’s realized that “the struggle is a huge part of why the show’s worked.” “I think I was probably more paranoid than others about finding the gold,” Doyle said. The answer, so far: 10 seasons, nine years, and more than 200 episodes. How long can an audience watch these guys struggle?” “I remember really clearly the pitch tape,” he said, which, in seven or eight minutes, highlighted “big larger than life characters to start with, it had a man versus nature element, it was set in Alaska-which has always been a sweet spot for us.”īut while the show “had a lot of really cool wow factor for the audience, and big bad machines,” he said, there were also “a lot of problems early on.” And that, Doyle said, “worried me and some of the executive team. There had been no gold mining shows, there had been no true adventure show-or treasure show-like that.” “I think everybody that was a part of it early on knew that we were on to something special,” he said, describing it as “the show that Discovery is truly always after: first in its space.
It’s more construction project than mystery.ĭoyle has been involved with the show since its early days, when he was moved from another Discovery network to be the executive in charge of the show at Discovery Channel.
Gold Rush (Discovery, Fridays at 9) first premiered in December of 2010, and while some of its cast members have changed, the general arc of the show has not: it follows miners-the current stars are Parker Schnabel, Rick Ness, and Tony Beets-as they search for gold in the Yukon.
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