Todd Hoffman became a miner for gold in Alaska after running his failing aviation business in Oregon. Todd had the idea of getting all his unemployed friends to go up to Alaska and gold mine while being filmed for a television show. Sounds crazy! First year was a total failure gold mining but a jackpot for Discovery Channel. In its first season, Gold Rush was the most watched Friday night program in all of US television for men 18-49 and 25-54. Year two was the same. Gold Rush held Friday's top rating in the demographic of men 18-49. Year three with all new equipment and double the miners, Todd has one goal this year - find 1000oz of gold. In Season 3 at just under 5 million total viewers per episode. The Season 3 two hour finale was 2 hours of hype.....YAWN just to find out the Hoffman’s yielded only 30 ounces on their last clean out. They finished shy of 1000 ounces. Thus....the Hoffman’s were awarded the motherlode trophy for most gold.....YAWN. They Achieved this with five times the equipment and manpower of the other crews. Discovery should be ashamed of this made for TV event.
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