On April 22, Discovery’s Emmy-winning reality series Deadliest Catch returns for its tenth season (Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Et). Viewers will have to wait until Opilio season to see the return of the Cornelia Marie, and the arrival of Mandy Hansen, Capt. Sig’s 18-year-old daughter, on the deck of the Northwestern. But there’s plenty of drama during red crab season, beginning in the two-hour premiere: From the government shutdown delaying the fleet’s start, which forces them to take bigger risks to make their delivery dates, to a greenhorn (and a captain!) nearly waving the white flag. EW...
- 4/22/2014
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Discovery Channel’s Emmy-winning reality show Deadliest Catch returns April 22, and as you’ll see in our exclusive first-look at the premiere’s cold open, which previews the landmark tenth season, there is no shortage of compelling stories. Josh Harris has the Cornelia Marie back crabbing, Sig Hansen has his 18-year-old daughter Mandy working on the Northwestern, boats are seen on fire and flooding, someone is heard yelling, “Man down! Man down! Man down!,” and both the Coast Guard and the Alaska State Troopers make appearances. “You, of course, want your tenth season to be awesome, like any other. But...
- 3/14/2014
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
It was an emotional Deadliest Catch season finale last night, as two members of the Time Bandit crew prepared to move on: Mike Fourtner, the consummate deckhand and quote machine, got teary-eyed telling the camera he’s retiring because he wants to be known as a good husband and father rather than “Mike from the Time Bandit.” And the Hillstrand Brothers informed Josh Harris, eldest son of the late Capt. Phil Harris, that he won’t have a job on their deck next season because they wanted to give Josh a final push to make the leap fans have long...
- 7/31/2013
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Tonight, Deadliest Catch returns for its ninth season on Discovery, and there is top-notch drama even before the fleet leaves Dutch Harbor. Here, courtesy of exec producer David Pritikin, is a tease of what’s to come.
• Elliott Neese is now his own boss: Fired from the Ramblin’ Rose in the offseason, the show’s youngest and most polarizing captain has gone more than $1 million in debt to buy his own boat, the F/V Saga. Most shocking perhaps: Seeing the pride in his father’s misty eyes may, at least for a moment, have you thinking you’ve misjudged Elliott.
• Elliott Neese is now his own boss: Fired from the Ramblin’ Rose in the offseason, the show’s youngest and most polarizing captain has gone more than $1 million in debt to buy his own boat, the F/V Saga. Most shocking perhaps: Seeing the pride in his father’s misty eyes may, at least for a moment, have you thinking you’ve misjudged Elliott.
- 4/16/2013
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
On Tuesday, June 19, the Bering Sea crab fleet hits dry land.
"It's really hot out today in Breckinridge," Josh Harris tells Zap2it from the latest location for "After the Catch" -- the roundtable companion show to Discovery's Tuesday reality hit "Deadliest Catch" --at the Whale's Tail restaurant in the Colorado ski-resort town, far from any ocean.
"It's probably in the 80s here," adds Harris.
Reminded that's a far cry from the bitter cold and crushing ice suffered by the crab fleet as it sought opilio crab on Alaska's Bering Sea during the first half of 2012, Harris says, "Oh, yes, it is. God bless it. God bless it. That's all I can say about that."
Among those on the new season of "After the Catch" are crab captains Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand of the F/V Time Bandit, Keith Colburn of the F/V Wizard, "Wild Bill" Wichrowski of the F/V Kodiak,...
"It's really hot out today in Breckinridge," Josh Harris tells Zap2it from the latest location for "After the Catch" -- the roundtable companion show to Discovery's Tuesday reality hit "Deadliest Catch" --at the Whale's Tail restaurant in the Colorado ski-resort town, far from any ocean.
"It's probably in the 80s here," adds Harris.
Reminded that's a far cry from the bitter cold and crushing ice suffered by the crab fleet as it sought opilio crab on Alaska's Bering Sea during the first half of 2012, Harris says, "Oh, yes, it is. God bless it. God bless it. That's all I can say about that."
Among those on the new season of "After the Catch" are crab captains Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand of the F/V Time Bandit, Keith Colburn of the F/V Wizard, "Wild Bill" Wichrowski of the F/V Kodiak,...
- 6/19/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Most years, the crab-fishing fleet from Discovery's Tuesday-night reality hit "Deadliest Catch" is back from the Bering Sea before the show premieres in April, but not this year.
(Photo at top: Deckhand Mike Fourtner on the ice-crusted F/V Time Bandit)
Speaking just before Memorial Day weekend, F/V Wizard Capt. Keith Colburn tells Zap2it, "Three days ago, my boat left Seattle to go fish snow crab, opilio crab. They extended the season from the middle of May until the middle of June. So many boats are struggling to catch their crab.
"I've gotten so many calls, guys saying, 'Help, help.' For the first time in over 30 years, the Wizard actually came south and is going north again to catch crab. I called the processor, the guy I talked to, I said, 'I'm going out. I'm going out.' He's like, 'Yeah, sure you are.' I go,...
(Photo at top: Deckhand Mike Fourtner on the ice-crusted F/V Time Bandit)
Speaking just before Memorial Day weekend, F/V Wizard Capt. Keith Colburn tells Zap2it, "Three days ago, my boat left Seattle to go fish snow crab, opilio crab. They extended the season from the middle of May until the middle of June. So many boats are struggling to catch their crab.
"I've gotten so many calls, guys saying, 'Help, help.' For the first time in over 30 years, the Wizard actually came south and is going north again to catch crab. I called the processor, the guy I talked to, I said, 'I'm going out. I'm going out.' He's like, 'Yeah, sure you are.' I go,...
- 6/5/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
As Zap2it reported to "Deadliest Catch" fans on Friday, May 11, F/V Northwestern deckhand Jake Anderson tied the knot with Jenna Patterson on Saturday, May 12, with his captain and mentor, Sig Hansen, officiating at the ceremony.
We're waiting on official wedding photos from Discovery, but in the meantime, Capt. Johnathan Hillstrand of the F/V Time Bandit -- Anderson's longtime friend -- tweeted out some photos from the big day via his @CaptJohnathan account.
They show Hillstrand (on left in photo below) with Sig's younger brother, deck boss Edgar Hansen (right), the happy newlyweds (above), and how Hillstrand "decorated" the car they drove away in ...
And, a little later, Time Bandit deckhand Mike Fourtner tweeted this pic from his @MikeFourtner account, showing Sig Hansen performing the ceremony ...
Lastly, even a little later on, here's a pic from Anderson's Twitterstream at @JakeVAnderson, showing the happy couple and one sweet ride ...
Congratulations,...
We're waiting on official wedding photos from Discovery, but in the meantime, Capt. Johnathan Hillstrand of the F/V Time Bandit -- Anderson's longtime friend -- tweeted out some photos from the big day via his @CaptJohnathan account.
They show Hillstrand (on left in photo below) with Sig's younger brother, deck boss Edgar Hansen (right), the happy newlyweds (above), and how Hillstrand "decorated" the car they drove away in ...
And, a little later, Time Bandit deckhand Mike Fourtner tweeted this pic from his @MikeFourtner account, showing Sig Hansen performing the ceremony ...
Lastly, even a little later on, here's a pic from Anderson's Twitterstream at @JakeVAnderson, showing the happy couple and one sweet ride ...
Congratulations,...
- 5/13/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The 2010 Opi season is over. We, the viewers, share the crews’ overriding sentiment: Thank god. I wouldn’t trade the experience of watching these final episodes for anything (unless it meant the event that set them in motion, Phil’s stroke, wouldn’t have happened), but it’s been a workout. I thought I’d finally made it through an hour without tearing up, but the final shot got me: Seagulls, which are said to be the images of sailors gone, chillin’ on the Cornelia Marie. Initially, part of me wished it had just been one seagull, but then I realized Phil would,...
- 7/28/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
During last night’s post-show After the Catch chat, host Mike Rowe set up the clip of Cornelia Maria deckhand Freddie Maughtai telling Josh Harris he should abandon ship and be with his ailing father, Capt. Phil, by calling it one of the six-year-old series’ most honest moments. Last night’s episode added a few more to that list.
While Phil recovered from a 12-hour surgery to relieve pressure on his swelling brain, Josh, Jake, and Johnathan Hillstrand were updated on his condition. He could survive the devastating stroke, but it was going to be a long road back. Twenty-eight hours after the surgery,...
While Phil recovered from a 12-hour surgery to relieve pressure on his swelling brain, Josh, Jake, and Johnathan Hillstrand were updated on his condition. He could survive the devastating stroke, but it was going to be a long road back. Twenty-eight hours after the surgery,...
- 7/7/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Watching these final hours of Deadliest Catch’s sixth season will require a weekly gut check. But if last night’s episode was any indication, it’ll be worth it. For every image that knocks the wind out of you — like the ones of Capt. Phil lying in the ER of the St. Paul Island clinic, then being loaded on a flight to Anchorage so he could start receiving the proper medical treatment he’d been without for at least five hours after his massive stroke — there’s one that fills you with so much emotion that you want to...
- 6/30/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
We’ve known this episode was coming ever since we found out that Capt. Phil Harris insisted the cameras keep filming after he suffered a stroke because they needed “a great finish to the story,” and it’s made season 6 — the show’s most-watched — exquisitely excruciating. You couldn’t have scripted a more moving start to Phil’s final days if you tried.
We started with a replay of the confrontation Phil and son Jake had in last week’s episode after the skipper caught his deckhand stealing some of his prescription pain medicine. Phil said he never wanted to...
We started with a replay of the confrontation Phil and son Jake had in last week’s episode after the skipper caught his deckhand stealing some of his prescription pain medicine. Phil said he never wanted to...
- 6/23/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
On last night’s episode of Deadliest Catch, an ailing Capt. Phil Harris caught his son Jake, who’d been slacking off on deck, stealing his prescription pain medicine. The confrontation that followed (Phil: “I want you out of my life. You’re out of my life…. You’re nothin’ but a thief. A thief and a liar”) was painful to watch. Especially if you knew that in next week’s episode, Phil suffers the stroke that eventually took his life.
I don’t know how we’re going to get through the June 22 episode and those airing after it,...
I don’t know how we’re going to get through the June 22 episode and those airing after it,...
- 6/16/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
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