The Discovery Channel's hit gold mining docuseries, 'Gold Rush', has been entertaining audience since 2010. With a whopping Eleven seasons, fanatics are curious, is it all real?
Who would've thought that a docuseries about gold miners would transform probably the most Discovery Channel's best appearing presentations. Gold Rush follows gold miners Parker Schnabel, Rick Ness, and Tony Beets, amongst others as they risk it all to unearth winning chunks of gold in both the United States and Canada. More in particular, the boys common the Klondike house of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
The series has offered several rough-around-the-edges mining households, including the Schnabels, the Hoffmans, and the Beets, all of whom are thirsty for a golden jackpot.
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While its possibly an business you wouldn't think would garner a fanbase, Gold Rush has been on the air for Eleven a success seasons since its 2010 premiere. With spin-offs like Gold Rush: Parker's Trailer and Gold Rush: White Water, Discovery has struck its personal metaphorical golden nuggets. But with presentations like House Hunters, Say Yes To The Dress, and Naked And Afraid all being rumored to skew "reality," Gold Rush lovers can't help however wonder, is the show real? Or is it all fool's gold?
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Is Discovery's docuseries 'Gold Rush' Real?
As you can imagine, if Gold Rush was filmed cinéma vérité taste, with little to no creative course or group involvement, it can be beautiful boring. With displays like Gold Rush and Deadliest Catch, which put much less glamorous industries at the forefront, there must be some drama, some pizzazz — however that does not mean it's pretend.
“That is the challenge: How can we make what we do attention-grabbing? How can we make the tales of fellows who dig within the flooring and wash rocks and search for little bits of metal—how do we make that interesting yr after year, and get a hold of a tale that people wish to see?" producer Ed Gorsuch told Reality Blurred. In order to make the show interesting for a broad range of viewers, character development is super important. As pretty as gold is, it's not the star of the show.
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With that being said, it's all a balance.“We have to care about the gold, too. Why do I care if this character wants to get X amount of gold? What’s the personal investment for this?” Ed continued. But when it comes down to it, viewers do in fact form bonds with the miners, rooting for them on the sidelines (the sidelines being their living room couches). “I’m always amazed that people are as invested in the characters and their struggles as they are."
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When Ed, the crew, and the mining stars film a season's price of footage from the third week of April until mid-October, some theatrics are implemented. But for all intents and purposes, the sequence depicts the real mining efforts of its main solid. "We don’t just turn the cameras on and shoot randomly. We do focus on a story or character; we do try to have a plan each day or at least each week on what we want to emphasize," Ed relayed.
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"There’s no scripts written; the edit doesn’t feed them what to do. It comes the other way around; the miners do what they’re going to do, and we give shape to it. And that is the ideal thing," Ed disclosed.
According to TV Overmind, however, former Gold Rush cast member Jimmy Dorsey has claimed that the Gold Rush staff use their editing magic to "create heroes and villains," which is a tactic continuously used on competition reality shows like RuPaul's Drag Race.
What's more alarming is that the parents creating Gold Rush have allegedly had its cast observe mistaken repairs of mining apparatus with a purpose to produce an uber-dramatic scene. Because risk is exciting! When it comes to almost any and every fact television program, take the "reality" facet with a grain of salt.
New episodes of Gold Rush air Fridays at Eight p.m. EST on the Discovery Channel.
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