A New ‘Deadliest Catch’ Marathon!

After you’ve tended to all of the Mother’s Day festivities, don’t forget to tune in to the ‘Deadliest Catch’ Mother’s Day Marathon all day and night Sunday, May 11th!  Catch repeats of Best of Season 2, Best of Season 3, and all of season 4 that’s already aired.  On Mother’s Day, you can never have too much of diamonds, flowers, and ‘Deadliest Catch’!

For the Russell Newberry Fans….

He’s outspoken, he’s experienced, he’s a life-long friend of the Hillstrands, he has a great sense of humor…He’s Russell Newberry and this is where he’ll be at this weekend!

 

When Russell Newberry signed a contract with the producers of “The Deadliest Catch,” a reality show about crab fishing off the Alaska coast, he never read past the document’s first sentence.

“It said the Discovery Channel had the right to film me clothed, half-clothed or naked,” Newberry said. “I didn’t have to read any more. I signed it right away.

“I wonder why it took 45 years for someone to discover me.”

The show documents the around-the-clock schedule of working on crab boats and has made celebrities of the ship’s captains, Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, who have written a book about their ship, Time Bandit, and will be at the Clark County Skills Center May 17 to autograph copies. But crew members such as Newberry also enjoy  the media attention and often make appearances.

Read the rest here

 

‘Deadliest Catch’ Imagery is Pretty Catchy!

Over the last few years many writers have posted on their blogs that they just dont know what it is about ‘Deadliest Catch’ that’s got them hooked, but they can’t turn away from the show when it’s on tv.  And when one thinks about it, there’s so many different elements to the show that it’s hard to tell whether it’s one specific thing or the combination of it all.  It could be the almost exotic setting of Alaska, could be the featured fishermen with their edgy personalities and larger then life presences, could be the Bering sea, the crab itself, the lifestyle, or the actual fishing too.  Whichever stands out in your mind, you have to admit that the imagery we see on the television every week is fascinating and sometimes haunting as well!   What is it that catches your eye when watching ‘Deadliest Catch’?
(photos are all courtesy of Discovery and Deadliest Screencaps on myspace)

   

       

 

 

Thumbs Up on the Ratings…

According to MultiChannel News, ratings are up 11 % from last season and this last Tuesday’s episode was the 3rd-highest rated show of all prime time shows!

Tuesday night’s episode of Deadliest Catch garnered a 2.45 rating and more than 3.45 million viewers, helping it to tie CNN’s Election Center for the top primetime, non-sports cable program of the evening, Discovery Channel officials said.

So far this season, Deadliest Catch viewership is up 11 percent on average compared to last season’s ratings.

Tuesday’s episode, title “No Mercy,” drew 1 million women viewers between 25 and 54 years of age, the second-highest female audience in the show’s history behind the Season 3 finale.

Among all viewers in the key 25-54 demographic, Catch posted a 2.25 rating.

Discovery officials said Tuesday’s episode was third most-watch program among all primetime shows, beating out the likes of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars Results and CBS’s Shark in the 9 p.m. timeslot.

‘Deadliest Catch’ Skippers in Seattle

Most of the featured ‘Deadliest Catch’ skippers from season 4 spent the last few days in Seattle, Washington, signing quite a few books, chatting with fans, and attending events, including the second official Discovery party.  Lucky fans who had entered the  Discovery Wiki sweepstakes last month and won, were invited to shmooze with the skippers and eat crab.  From all accounts, a really great time was had by all and Deadliest Reports hopes to have some pics from that event to post soon.

Theses images are from the booksigning that took place at the University Village Barnes & Nobles in Seattle. 

Capt Sig Hansen (photo courtesy of fan, AnnG) 

Sig Hansen and Phil Harris (photo courtesy of fan, AnnG) 

 

Capt. Andy Hillstrand holding up large image of his and Johnathan’s new release, Time Bandit. (image courtesy of a photo gallery called Crabs & Comics.  Check out many photos there!)

The skipper line-up signing books for fans (image courtesy of a photo gallery called Crabs & Comics.  Check out many photos there!)

Keith Colburn and Andy Hillstrand. (image courtesy of a photo gallery called Crabs & Comics.  Check out many photos there!)

News about Photographer/Fisherman Corey Arnold

Every once in a while we have to post a few pics taken by Corey Arnold–professional photographer and deckhand aboard the F/V Rollo.  Corey continues to stay extremely busy with both professions and he recently posted new images on his flickr account which is viewable by the public!  You’ll have to check them out!  Corey Arnold also has a brand new website coming together which includes his work, projects, and his own blog.  Recently he was interviewed and you can listen to it as you watch a photo slideshow of his work. (All images are courtesy of Corey Arnold)

On TV Tonight….

Last week’s episode, Unsafe and Unsound proved once again that crab fishing in the Bering sea is a deadly job.  From Moi’s nasty finger injury to Capt. Johnathan’s plunge into the freezing water, we all saw that it isn’t necessary that a fishing vessel go down for bad things to happen to our favorite fishermen!  This week it sounds like we’ll find out what happens when the pressure of finding crab and working long hours makes deckhands and skippers turn on each other.  That in itself, could be pretty deadly as well!

NO MERCY

Deadliest Catch–May 06th  9pm eastern
Episode 5

Tempers flare onboard Wizard and Northwestern. Time Bandit has a dangerous electrical short. On Cornelia Marie, Phil’s health deteriorates. Early Dawn runs headlong into high seas when its greenhorn falls asleep at the wheel.

 

On the Discovery webiste, tonight’s guest for their weekly live chat is none other then halfshare deckhand Jake Anderson aboard the F/V Northwestern.  We already know that he also has ties to Bering sea crabbers as he’s the nephew of Nick Mavar on the Northwestern and John Mavar aboard the Far West Leader, but there’s plenty more to learn about this young guy provided we head over to the chat room at 10pm eastern and ask him the right questions….Use this livechat link and pop in later.

Capt. Phil of the F/V Cornelia Marie

In an article titled, Brushes with Death Standard for ‘Deadliest Catch’ Star, written by Rodney Ho of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Capt Phil Harris of the F/V Cornelia Marie gives details on his major brush that took place during the last season.  God bless him, his family, and the entourage of people who came to his assistance and pulled him through what must have been a horrific experience!  (Photo is courtesy of Discovery)

…Broken ribs, broken wrists, broken arms, broken back.

For Phil Harris, that’s standard fare trolling the Alaskan seas for snow and Alaskan crab, a lifestyle chronicled in Discovery Channel’s most successful series to date, “Deadliest Catch.”

to Atlanta last week to meet with advertisers and media, including a lunch at the downtown Hooters. “It takes me 20 minutes to get out of bed every morning. I’ve had Marines come on the boat. They say this makes boot camp look like a picnic.”

The name “Deadliest Catch” is no exaggeration. Pro fishermen have one of the highest mortality rates of any profession. In fact, one of Harris’ workers once fell out of his boat and died. Tumbling into the chilly Alaskan waters is pretty much a death sentence, he said. The tradeoff: fishing is lucrative. You can earn well into the six figures — if you can survive the lifestyle.

Harris has, often clearing $500,000 a year. He owns a huge lakeside home in Seattle, two Harleys and a $100,000 Z06 Corvette. He gets five months off a year. As captain of the Cornelia Marie for 17 years, the 51-year-old ranks in the top five in volume among the 70 boats that vie for crab. (Ironically, Harris hates eating Alaskan snow crab, which is featured on the Hooters menu with the note “dangerous to catch, fun to eat.”)

And while Harris no longer has to do the heavy lifting anymore — his two sons help him out — he is hardly immune to injury. In a scene to be shown later this season, a monster wave pummeled his boat in January, causing him to fall out of his bunk. He punctured a lung and broke his ribs. But his condition worsened after a blood clot dislodged from his leg and traveled to his heart.

Harris almost died from a pulmonary aneurysm, and the remains of the clot are still life-threatening.

“I’m eating massive amounts of medicine” to break down the clot, he says. “I take them every day and pray.”

Then, turning to the Discovery publicist, Harris says mischievously, “You know what the ratings would have been if I had died? Hot diggity dog! He’s a dead man!”

Make the jump and read the rest!