Deadliest Catch Losing Three Captains?

[Molsman]

straight from the discovery channel web site

UPDATE: (Friday, 10/8/2010) The Discovery network has just announced that The Hillstrand Brothers and Sig Hansen are returning to Deadliest Catch. See the statement here.

 

[oneway]

Time to move on. It's called swamp people...... good ol' boys from the bayou+gators+missing teeth+shotguns= good entertainment.

Swamp people?

You have got to be kidding me?

Some idiot dad is proud of his 20 something toothless illiterate son because he can finally hit an alligator in the head with a 22 rimfire at point blank range...you find that entertaining?

The show is a joke, largely comprised of manufactured drama...

The title has the urban viewer expecting that "the swamp people" might eat their young when the bayou floods...or dog is on the menu...

Instead we are served up with a weak cast of characters plying placid waters in tin john boats with rotten meat and rim fire rifles...some taking risks firing on free swimming gators in deep water with virtually no hope of recovering the animal...

And of course the gutting and skinning of the gators and how they are made into hand bags and boots is conspicuously absent...that would be the true reality of it...

Swamp people...enjoy it if you like it...thankfully it will be off the air shortly...

Out

Oneway

[ZetaNine]

I'm also sure this gets resolved (settled).......and all of them go back to work.

this is how deals are negotiated, many times in hollywood.

LOS ANGELES— Capts. Sig Hansen and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand have agreed to return to "Deadliest Catch," ending a legal stalemate that threatened the Discovery hit reality series. "We're happy we worked everything out with Discovery." "We're happy we worked everything out with Discovery," the trio told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. "A deal's a deal. We're heading up to Dutch Harbor to start filming the new season of 'Deadliest Catch' and hopefully it will be the best one yet."

Hansen and the Hillstrands had quit the show in response to a $3 million lawsuit filed by Discovery against the Hillstrands for allegedly refusing to finish work on a planned spinoff special. As part of the settlement, Discovery's lawsuit will be dropped.

"I'm extremely pleased that we were able to resolve our clients' situation with Discovery," the trio's lawyer Jeff Cohen said. "The captains are very excited about the new season."

Terms of the settlement are not being disclosed, but both Cohen and a Discovery representative said they were happy with the results of the negotiations. Also as part of the deal, the Hillstrands have agreed to finish work on "Hillstranded," the spinoff that prompted the standoff.

[TOMCAT21]

thanks for the update

[Babalonian]

LOS ANGELES— Capts. Sig Hansen and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand have agreed to return to "Deadliest Catch," ending a legal stalemate that threatened the Discovery hit reality series. "We're happy we worked everything out with Discovery." "We're happy we worked everything out with Discovery," the trio told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. "A deal's a deal. We're heading up to Dutch Harbor to start filming the new season of 'Deadliest Catch' and hopefully it will be the best one yet."

Hansen and the Hillstrands had quit the show in response to a $3 million lawsuit filed by Discovery against the Hillstrands for allegedly refusing to finish work on a planned spinoff special. As part of the settlement, Discovery's lawsuit will be dropped.

"I'm extremely pleased that we were able to resolve our clients' situation with Discovery," the trio's lawyer Jeff Cohen said. "The captains are very excited about the new season."

Terms of the settlement are not being disclosed, but both Cohen and a Discovery representative said they were happy with the results of the negotiations. Also as part of the deal, the Hillstrands have agreed to finish work on "Hillstranded," the spinoff that prompted the standoff.

My translation:  "Our Discovery Channel lawyers screwed up so badly that we ended up settling with them on paying them more than the money they originaly wanted, the right to do things their way and at their own pace - so long as they eventualy do it, and reimburse them for all legal costs incurred on them as a result of our incompetence... and all in exchange not revealing to the media how badly we messed up and not to ever mention this matter in any future production."

Sounds like the captains had Discovery over the barrel they wanted them to be, I wouldn't be surprised if the Hillstrand's and Sig and some pretty fancy and compfy looking new captain chairs this season now.

[ZetaNine]

word has it..the kids from Jersey Shore are getting ready to do this very same thing.

[TnDep]

it was all a hoax to get more viewers ummm....

[Slash27]

Swamp people?

You have got to be kidding me?

Some idiot dad is proud of his 20 something toothless illiterate son because he can finally hit an alligator in the head with a 22 rimfire at point blank range...you find that entertaining?

The show is a joke, largely comprised of manufactured drama...

The title has the urban viewer expecting that "the swamp people" might eat their young when the bayou floods...or dog is on the menu...

Instead we are served up with a weak cast of characters plying placid waters in tin john boats with rotten meat and rim fire rifles...some taking risks firing on free swimming gators in deep water with virtually no hope of recovering the animal...

And of course the gutting and skinning of the gators and how they are made into hand bags and boots is conspicuously absent...that would be the true reality of it...

Swamp people...enjoy it if you like it...thankfully it will be off the air shortly...

Out

Oneway

So do you like the show or not?