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Some Men Won’t Make It Home In Discovery’s Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove

September 13, 2016 Barb Oates Comments Off on Some Men Won’t Make It Home In Discovery’s Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove

Discovery wastes no time hooking viewers on their nerve-racking spinoff series Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove (premiering Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9/8c). The series follows a handful of fishermen and their families who live on the western most edge of Oregon in the seaside town of Newport. We’re first introduced to the show with actual news footage of a tragic rescue effort, followed by Dungeon Cove’s narrator explaining: “Before this story ends, two boats and four men will not make it home.” His remarks hit home and somberly remind us that this isn’t just an adrenaline-fueled, entertaining TV series  — this […]

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Fishing Always Starts With the Money: Meet Captain Chris Retherford of Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove

September 13, 2016 Barb Oates 1

Football has the Manning brothers. Tennis has the Williams sisters. TV has the Wahlbergs, Baldwins, Kardashians and more. Dungeness crab fishing has the Retherford brothers. And it’s game on for brothers Mikey and Chris Retherford, as they captain two of the boats in Discovery Channel’s new Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove (premiering Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 9/8c). The Retherford boys are second generation fishermen who have followed their father, Mike Sr., in building a successful life off the sea. While fishing initially started as a means to make money for Chris, it is now a true found love. We recently got […]

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Big Ratings for Discovery’s Harley and the Davidsons

September 12, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer 1

Discovery Channel announced today that its three-part miniseries Harley and the Davidsons, which aired last week beginning on Labor Day, scored big ratings across all three nights, becoming the most-watched cable miniseries in 3.5 years (since History’s The Bible) and the No. 1 cable program across top demos all three nights. RELATED: “HARLEY AND THE DAVIDSONS” A FUN RIDE The program averaged 2.00 million P25-54 viewers and 4.4 million P2+ viewers, according to a Discovery release. Harley also was Discovery Channel’s highest-rated rookie series ever among M25-54, as well as the network’s most-watched ever in P2+. This was the first miniseries for Discovery Channel under […]

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Harley and the Davidsons a Fun Ride Through the Iconic Motorcycle Brand’s Early History

September 5, 2016 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off on Harley and the Davidsons a Fun Ride Through the Iconic Motorcycle Brand’s Early History

Being based in Milwaukee, I am certainly no stranger to the sights and sounds (especially in the summertime) of the legendary Harley-Davidson motorcycle brand, but I had not known very much about its founding in the early 20th century. That’s why Discovery Channel’s Harley and the Davidsons, a three-night miniseries debuting tonight, is so fascinating. It’s a dramatization of how Walter and Arthur Davidson (Michiel Huisman and Bug Hall), with their friend Bill Harley (Robert Aramayo), risked their entire fortune and livelihood to launch the enterprise. The timing of the Davidsons’ and Harley’s efforts coincided with a booming time of […]