Dirty Jobs (2003)

Genre

reality television

Country

United States

Length

11 seasons, 162 episodes

Rated

14

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Host Mike Rowe visits real workplaces to do unusual, messy, or hard jobs alongside the people who do them every day. The show focuses on the work itself and the people who take pride in doing it.

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What happens

Dirty Jobs is an American reality television series that originally aired on the Discovery Channel in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the job's current employees. The show, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, premiered with three pilot episodes in November 2003. It returned as a series on July 26, 2005, running for eight seasons until September 12, 2012. The show's setting was refocused in Australia for the final season, called Dirty Jobs Down Under. A spinoff miniseries titled Dirty Jobs: Rowe'd Trip premiered on July 7, 2020. The original series returned on January 2, 2022 for two more seasons, concluding on February 2, 2023. There is also a European edition of the show hosted by former Manchester United and Denmark goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. The series was nominated for five Primetime Emmys: 3 for Outstanding Reality Program, which Rowe was nominated for as a producer, and two for Cinematography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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