Ice Road Truckers

2007-2025
12 seasons
History Channel
Documentary, Action & Adventure, Reality
TV-14

During the harsh winter of Canada's Northwest Territory, remote villages and work camps are cut off from the world. To keep them supplied, a tenacious group of long-haul truckers drive their rigs over hundreds of miles on ice roads cut across the surface of frozen lakes. Sometimes the ice cannot support the heavy rig, and driver and cargo plunge through the ice and sink to the bottom. Hitch a risky ride along with the Ice Road Truckers as they drive headlong into bone-chilling danger.

2007-2025
12 seasons
History Channel
Documentary, Action & Adventure, Reality
TV-14

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Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009

True Blood9/8c HBO "There's no place like home" may be a familiar refrain, but, with their business in Dallas complete, Sookie, Bill and Jason return to a Bon Temps they barely recognize, thanks to Maryann's black-eyed coup d'état. To make matters worse, it appears that Bill's vampire voodoo is no match for the maenad's mind-control mayhem, and Sookie may be too late to help Tara out of her Dionysian daze. One bright spot, however, may be the chance that Jason can put his commando training to good use after all.Read on for previews of Mad Men, Merlin, Miss Universe Pageant and Ice Road Truckers.

Sun, Aug 23, 2009

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The Truckers Are on the (Icy) Road Again

The first thing Hugh "the Polar Bear" Rowland tells me when we climb into his massive snow-white Freightliner truck, preparing to head onto the northernmost ice road in the world, is to leave my seat belt unbuckled. He says if something goes wrong out here — on the frozen Mackenzie River, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle and headed toward the Beaufort Sea — hitting the windshield will be the least of our worries. He laughs when he says this (Rowland laughs a lot), but he's not kidding. The temperature outside is 20 degrees below zero, and if you're in a 50-ton vehicle that happens to go through a soft spot in the ice and into fast-freezing water that will kill you in 10 minutes or less, you don't want to be strapped in. He's got his sleeves rolled up, his window rolled halfway down, like a man going out for a Sunday drive. I, on the other hand, am bundled into as many layers of Gore-Tex and thermal underwear as I can find, barely able to bend my legs and climb into

Fri, Jun 13, 2008

The Truckers Are on the (Icy) Road Again

Ice Road Truckers Make Trip to Big Screen

Twentieth Century Fox is taking the premise of History Channel's hit reality series Ice Road Truckers and adapting it as the basis for a scripted tentpole feature film, says Variety. Truckers, which started as a special and later became the cabler's highest-rated series, follows drivers who navigate 18-wheelers over a 350-mile highway made of, well, ice, delivering supplies to diamond miners working the tundra of Canada's Northwest Territories.

Wed, Feb 13, 2008

Ice Road Truckers Make Trip to Big Screen

NBC Reels in Deadliest Catch Creator for Reality Block

NBC has inked a deal with Thom Beers (creator of cable's Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch) and producing partners Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to develop a three-hour block of action-adventure/reality programming. The order for each of the three series is 10 episodes, and while the exact programs have yet to be determined  all parties are currently sifting through a dozen different ideas  it is believed they will be in the same vein as Truckers and Catch. The consensus is that the block would air Friday or Saturday, or perhaps even Sunday following football.

Mon, Dec 3, 2007

Idol, Ice Road Truckers and More Short Cuts

Fox's "Idol Gives Back" and HBO's The Addiction Project will each receive the Governors Award, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' highest honor, for "harnessing the power of television to inform viewers about two very significant issues."... History Channel has added three "bonus" episodes to Ice Road Truckers, cable's highest-rated nonscripted series, to air Aug. 17 at 3 pm/ET, Aug. 26 at 9 and Sept. 2 at 9.... This September TBS will launch TBS Hot Corner, an interactive broadband channel offering on-demand Major League Baseball news, interviews and other content, as well as expanded coverage during game telecasts.... USA has secured network-TV rights to The Bourne Ultimatum and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, to air as early as January 2010 and December 2009, respectively. The price tag? Twelve percent of the total domestic box office for each.

Tue, Aug 7, 2007

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