Thom Beers (Creator)

Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire

Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential painters and Chicano art activists from the 1970s.

Release Date: 2019-05-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

The Returned

A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind are challenged both physically and emotionally.

Release Date: 2015-03-09

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 145

Outback Hunters

A team of fearless Aussies wade through the menacing East, West and South Alligator Rivers of Australia's desolate Kakadu coming face to face with the Salties, massive salt-water crocodiles.

Release Date: 2012-10-21

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

America's Lost Treasures

Curt Doussett and Kinga Philipps are on a quest to find objects with unexpected value and incredible stories forgotten in America’s basements, barns, attics, and backyards. Some of our nation’s great treasures are waiting to be discovered... and might even be worth a small fortune!

Release Date: 2012-07-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 10

Storage Wars

When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer as a single lot of items in the form of a cash-only auction. The show follows professional buyers who purchase the contents based only on a five-minute inspection of what they can see from the door when it is open. The goal is to turn a profit on the merchandise.

Release Date: 2010-12-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 133

Vote Count: 116

IRT Deadliest Roads

Truckers on the worlds most deadliest roads.

Release Date: 2010-10-03

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Character: Narrator

Episode Count: [ 23 ]

Vote Count: 13

1000 Ways to Lie

Everybody lies, and everybody gets lied to...We lie to get ahead, we lie to get the girl, and to keep our secrets. Whether motivated by greed, ego, or criminal intent, just when you think you've heard it all, there are 1000 WAYS TO LIE.

Release Date: 2010-03-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Motor City Motors

Motor City Motors is a garage based competition reality television show on the Discovery Channel hosted by the Detroit Brothers. During development, the show was referred to as MG: Motor City, a successor to the similar Discovery show Monster Garage. The first episode aired on Monday, December 28, 2009 at 9:00pm. The first season has thirteen episodes.

Release Date: 2009-12-28

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

The Colony

The Colony is a reality television series that is produced by the Discovery Channel. The program follows a group of people who must survive in a simulated post-apocalyptic environment. Casting was done by Metal Flowers Media. The first season had 10 main cast members as well as almost 100 actors who did additional scripted and improvisational work for the show.

Release Date: 2009-07-21

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Narrator

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 15

PitchMen

PitchMen is a docudrama television program produced for the Discovery Channel in the United States. The show followed infomercial producers and talent Billy Mays and Anthony "Sully" Sullivan as they attempted to sell various inventions through direct-response marketing, mainly through Telebrands, one of the largest direct response/infomercial companies. The series was narrated by Thom Beers. Each episode typically focused on two different products.

Release Date: 2009-04-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Character: Himself - Narrator

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 2

1000 Ways to Die

The science of living and the randomness of death are combined with a dash of Darwinism. Forensic experts, pathologists, toxicologists, herpetologists, and other experts offer eloquent explanations of mortality.

Release Date: 2009-02-08

Department: Crew

Job: Creator

Episode Count: 71

Vote Count: 406

America's Toughest Jobs

America's Toughest Jobs is a reality television show that lasted one season and aired on the American television network NBC. It pitted contestants against each other as they attempted a series of difficult and dangerous jobs. The prize was the sum of the salaries that would be earned by people doing these jobs in their first year. The show's creator and executive producer was Thom Beers, notable for creating shows such as Deadliest Catch and Monster Garage. Some of the jobs he chose to be featured on America's Toughest Jobs were featured on shows he previously created. The host was Josh Temple, a character actor who had minor roles in shows such as Will & Grace and Curb Your Enthusiasm. In each episode, contestants took part in tasks associated with a job, and were supervised and evaluated by workers or employers in that business. After spending time on the job, the supervisors selected one or more top employees for praise, and selected the employees who had the worst performances. Those employees were required to compete head-to-head in an additional challenge to determine who would be eliminated. For example, in the gold digging episode, the bottom four contestants were required to spend additional time digging for gold with the contestant who found the least amount eliminated. Once there were four contestants remaining, timed challenges were held for three of the season's toughest jobs with the contestant who had the slowest time at each eliminated until a winner was determined. At the end of each episode, an information screen was shown that detailed what the eliminated contestant decided to do after the show.

Release Date: 2008-08-25

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 1

Black Gold

Black Gold is a reality-documentary television series that chronicles three oil drilling rigs in Andrews County, Texas, 30 miles northwest of Odessa. It is partly produced by Thom Beers, creator of Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers. The Black Gold theme song is sung by country music star Trace Adkins. The title "Black Gold" comes from a slang term for oil. Black Gold airs Wednesday nights on truTV at 10pm. It is also shown as a special presentation on TNT in high definition. The show also airs in the United Kingdom on Five, under the title Oil Riggers.

Release Date: 2008-06-18

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 3

Ax Men

Danger is a full-time job for these brave men who put everything on the line each and every day to retrieve the Pacific Northwest timber with which we build our country. Snapped cables, runaway logs and razor-sharp chainsaws are just some of the dangers that threaten their lives daily. Even with new technology that should make the job easier, anything and everything can and does go wrong.

Release Date: 2008-03-09

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 45

Vote Count: 13

Ice Road Truckers

Take a trip to Yellowknife, Canada to experience one of the most dangerous careers around. In unfathomably cold conditions, truck drivers haul equipment and supplies to miners in the Canadian tundra in the dead of winter on a 350-mile highway of ice.

Release Date: 2007-06-17

Character: Self - Narrator

Episode Count: 138

Vote Count: 74

Lobstermen: Jeopardy at Sea

Lobstermen: Jeopardy at Sea is a multi-part documentary/reality show on the Discovery Channel chronicling the fall 2005 North Atlantic lobster fishing season aboard several fishing boats. Created and narrated by Thom Beers, it is heavily patterned after and can be considered a spin-off of fellow Discovery Channel program Deadliest Catch, which deals with Alaskan crab fishing. Lobstermen debuted on June 20, 2006, one week after the finale of season two of Deadliest Catch in its former time slot. The central story of the show is the struggle of first-year captain Scott Christopher and his boat, Dragon Lady, in their attempt to gain a foothold on the hotly contested fishing grounds of the Georges Bank. In 2007, Lobster Wars debuted, following not only Dragon Lady, but also four other lobster boats.

Release Date: 2006-06-20

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Deadliest Catch

Forty-foot waves, 700 pound crab pots, freezing temperatures and your mortality staring you in the face…it's all in a day's work for these modern day prospectors. During each episode we will watch crews race to meet their quota and make it home safely.

Release Date: 2005-04-12

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 131

Vote Count: 149

Monster House

Monster House is a Discovery Channel television program that documented the themed remodeling of a residence in a five-day time frame. In 2004, the episode "Zen House" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for its opening song by composer Dan Mackenzie. In early 2006, Discovery Channel announced the show had been canceled and the final episode, titled "Farewell House", aired in February. Monster House is now running in reruns in 2012 on Spike TV.

Release Date: 2003-06-01

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Biker Build-Off

Biker Build-Off is a reality television series for the Discovery Channel. Created and narrated by Thom Beers, the series was originally conceived as a single special called The Great Biker Build-Off. The show proved so popular that more episodes were produced in succeeding years, to the point that it was turned into a regular series in 2005.

Release Date: 2002-09-28

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Impact: Stories of Survival

Impact: Stories of Survival is a documentary television series that premiered in 2002 on and was produced by the Discovery Health Channel. The program is based on life-threatening situations in which the victim experienced a moment of impact. Featuring video of the event, reenactments, and interviews with surgeons, doctors, and the victims, Impact takes its viewers through the full process of the victims impact, treatment and recovery. There is also a segment where a computerized animation shows in detail how the impact affected the victim's body showing how and to what extent bones, organs, veins, etc. were injured.

Release Date: 2002-07-01

Episode Count: 30

Monster Garage

A team of professionals headed by expert mechanic Jesse James specialize in transform cars. The clock is ticking as they attempt to turn ordinary vehicles into 'monster machines' in just a week.

Release Date: 2002-06-23

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Character: Self

Episode Count: [ 90 ]

Vote Count: 11

Inside Wrestling School

A look at one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the United States, professional wrestling.

Release Date: 2000-08-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Biker Women

A fresh take on the outlaw spirit, focusing on a road trip by four motorcyclists who forge deep friendships over nearly 3,000 miles. Zeros in on four California women who get to know one another while traveling to and from Sturgis, South Dakota, for the world’s largest biker gathering, an annual event since 1938. The rally is a heady brew of races, partying, and exhibitionism under the Great Plains sun. The central quartet have come to Sturgis not merely to revel but to work: Among them are two journalists (Cris Sommer-Simmons, cofounder-founder of Harley Women magazine; and Jamie Elvidge, who specializes in test-riding bikes), a singer-songwriter (Gevin Fax) and a photographer (Gail DeMarco). Combines footage of the women’s trip and post-travel interviews.

Release Date: 1996-08-25

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Raising the Bar

Raising the Bar is an American reality television show which premiered March 4, 2013. The series revolves around a six teams of three people each who must create the best handmade bar which serves at least one shot of George Dickel whiskey, while at the American Royal World Series of BBQ.

Department: Creator

Job: Creator