Ice Road Truckers
| Ice Road Truckers | |
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| Genre | Reality |
| Starring |
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| Narrated by |
Thom Beers Tom Cotcher (UK) |
| Theme music composer | Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Mark Hudson |
| Opening theme | "Livin' on the Edge" by Aerosmith (Seasons 1 – 4 only) |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 128 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | David McKillop Dolores Gavin Thom Beers Philip Segal Dawn Fitzgerald Adam Martin Aron Plucinski |
| Running time | 45 – 48 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Original Productions Prospero Media (season 8) Shaw Media (season 8) |
| Distributor | A+E Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network | History |
| Original release | June 17, 2007 – October 6, 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| IRT:Deadliest Roads | |
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| Genre |
Reality Documentary |
| Starring |
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| Narrated by |
Thom Beers Tom Cotcher (UK) |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 23 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | David McKillop Dolores Gavin Thom Beers Philip Segal Dawn Fitzgerald Adam Martin Aron Plucinski |
| Location(s) | India and South America |
| Running time | 45 – 48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Original Productions |
| Distributor | A+E Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network | History |
| Original release | October 3, 2010 – December 18, 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is a reality television series that premiered on History, on June 17, 2007. It features the activities of drivers who operate trucks on seasonal routes crossing frozen lakes and rivers, in remote Arctic territories in Canada and Alaska. Later series focused on Alaska's improved but still remote Dalton Highway, which is mainly snow-covered solid ground. The newest seasons are based on Manitoba's winter roads.
In 2000, History aired a 46-minute episode titled "Ice Road Truckers" as part of the Suicide Missions (later Dangerous Missions) series. Based on Edith Iglauer's book Denison's Ice Road, the episode details the treacherous job of driving trucks over frozen lakes, also known as ice roads, in Canada's Northwest Territories. After 2000, reruns of the documentary were aired as an episode of the series Modern Marvels instead. Under this banner, the Ice Road Truckers show garnered very good ratings.
In 2006, The History Channel hired Thom Beers, owner of Original Productions and executive producer of Deadliest Catch, to create a series based on the Ice Road book. Shot in high definition (although the season ended before History HD was launched in the US), the show "charts two months in the lives of six extraordinary men who haul vital supplies to diamond mines and other remote locations over frozen lakes that double as roads".
During the finale of the show's first season of 10 episodes, The History Channel aired a promo for season 2 which began airing on June 8, 2008.
Season 1 of Ice Road Truckers was shown on the British national commercial channel Channel Five in February/March 2008. In Australia it aired on Austar and Foxtel in early 2008 and from June 18 it also began being shown on Network Ten. In autumn 2008 season one aired on RTL 7 in the Netherlands.
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