#Who owns the mines on gold rush series series#

вЂњThereвЂ™s no scripts written the edit doesnвЂ™t feed them what to do. вЂњWe work off of a mining plan so we have an outline of what they want to do.В We go, WhatвЂ™s your big-picture plan?В And then we try to put them on a board in some order, because we donвЂ™t want to have it all happen in one episode,вЂќ he said. Gorsuch said definitively thatВ вЂњthe show is not scripted.вЂќ They actually direct you into these situations. Years ago, season one cast member Jimmy Dorsey said in an interviewВ that the show wasВ вЂњscripted from the beginningвЂќ and said producersВ вЂњknew exactly what they wanted to see out of the program,вЂќ though he also said that вЂњthe plans were made, but the footsteps were ours.

The more we can be in sync with them and work with them, the better. вЂњWhenever we get in the way and try to bring shape to something that doesnвЂ™t go with the flow of what they want to do, we fail. вЂњI find that with the miners, you go with the flow,вЂќ Gorsuch told me. Just telling the miners what to do doesnвЂ™t work for well for Gold Rush. And then itвЂ™s the give and take about how do we tell that story with them,вЂќ he said. вЂњTheyвЂ™ll come up with 10 different ideas and one of them will really stick, hopefully-one will be the thing weвЂ™re going to hang a season on.В ThatвЂ™s the big idea thatвЂ™s what weвЂ™re going to choose to emphasize. Seasons are вЂњalways built around their mining plan, what they want to do, and then we try to bring shape or context to it, and hopefully make it entertaining,вЂќВ Gorsuch said. The television plan starts with the minersвЂ™ own plans, and producers decide what stories theyвЂ™ll focus on from there. 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,вЂќВ series producer EdВ Gorsuch told me. But we donвЂ™t just turn the cameras on and shoot randomly. вЂњWe are there the whole time we are filming everything we can. It takes about half the year to gather enough footage for a season: 25 weeks of filming, starting the third week of April until mid-October. Gold RushВ season 8 just concluded filming last week, the same week the season premiered meanwhile, the production just delivered a rough cut for episode 12 and yesterday, started to plan Gold Rush season 9.

вЂњItвЂ™s a surprise to me that people are willing to make that journey, but it says something about the popularity of the show.вЂќ How Gold Rush is produced вЂњWe have a lot of Germans come out as well for some reason, itвЂ™s incredibly, and they seem to want to make the journey,вЂќ he said. We had a guy with aВ motor home drive up with his family from Louisiana.вЂќ And thereвЂ™s people that show up just to see the miners.В WeвЂ™ve had families show up. вЂњReally from season two on, since being up in the Yukon, people have shown up,вЂќ Gorsuch said, even though the mining sites are вЂњnot an easy place to get to. вЂ¦ IвЂ™ve traveled with Parker quite a bit through airports through the States, and he always gets recognized.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s veryВ fulfilling to see,вЂќВ Gorsuch said.В The miners are вЂњquite gracious theyвЂ™re genuine people. вЂњIвЂ™m always amazed that people are as invested in the characters and their struggles as they are. Why do I care if this character wants to get x amount of gold?В WhatвЂ™s the personal investment for this?вЂќ he said. The focus of the showвЂ™s story can be on things like the minersвЂ™ season target, butВ Gorsuch saidВ вЂњthe characters and their dynamicsвЂќ matter more. He told me that the production constantly asks:В вЂњHow can we make this better, more interesting, more engaging than the previous season?В What is the fresh idea this season? WhatвЂ™s going to be different?вЂќ

#Who owns the mines on gold rush series series#

ThatвЂ™s EdВ Gorsuch, the series producer for Gold Rush, who spends April through October of every year in the field with the gold mining and television production crews.

вЂњThat is the challenge: How do we make what we do interesting?В How do we make the stories of guys who dig in the ground and wash rocks and look for little bits of metal-how do we make that interesting year after year, and come up with a story that people want to see?вЂќ So how does Gold Rush (Discovery, Fridays at 9), which is produced by Raw TV, maintain that interest over eight seasons and more than 100 episodes? Gold RushвЂ™s season eight debut last Friday was the top non-sports show on all of television, including broadcast networks, and Discovery said in a press release that among men ages 25 to 54, the show is the third-most popular show on all of cable TV, following The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. ItвЂ™s like Deadliest Catch on land: a search for elusive and profitable products of nature, endlessly repetitive tasks, and grizzled characters who audiences have become connected to. The most-popular show on the Discovery Channel is Gold Rush, a reality series that follows modern-day gold miners in Colorado and the Yukon territory.