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Jesse Goins, a miner who appeared on Discovery’s Gold Rush franchise, has died, the network has confirmed. Goins was on set for Gold Rush in Colorado, when he was discovered unconscious by another crew member on Tuesday night. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. A cause of death is not yet known. He was 60. Goins…

It’s a story that sounds like it belongs in This American Life. A young TV producer mysteriously vanishes while filming on the Gold Rush franchise for Discovery in the abandoned mines of Idaho County, ID. Nearly two years later, there remains not a shred of evidence about Terrence Woods’ whereabouts. Instead, in his…

Gold Rush producer Raw Television has secured its first commission from Netflix — a three-part documentary on a man who went viral for killing kittens and was later convicted of murdering a Chinese student in 2012. The All3Media-owned indie, which made Emmy-nominated Three Identical Strangers last year, is producing Do…

Gold Rush creator and star Todd Hoffman has partnered with Bering Sea Gold executive producers Thom Beers and Jeff Conroy on another series set in the world of amateur gold mining, this time in the competition reality space. Hoffman and Jose Behar’s Züm Media has signed a development deal with Beers and Conroy’s new…

Emerging production outfit ZÜM Media has hired well-traveled media exec Zac Reeder as head of worldwide distribution. Producer Jose Behar and Todd Hoffman, creator and star of Gold Rush, Discovery Channel’s top-rated, long-running hit, recently formed ZÜM. The company, which says it has more than 20 initial projects…

Discovery Channel has announced its fall slate and there’s some new unscripted series, documentaries and the return of an iconic game shows. The Emmy-winning Cash Cab is set to return with host Ben Bailey back in the driver’s seat for the popular in-transit trivia game show. There will be a new spin to the show as…

Longtime Gold Rush EP Christo Doyle announced on Twitter that today is his last day with Discovery Communications: After 15 years, today is my last day @Discovery It's been an honor to help build this brandDiscovery has made me who I amThank you all — Christo Doyle (@ChristoDoyle) January 26, 2017 Doyle, who is VP…

John Schnabel, one of the stars of the Discovery Channel reality series Gold Rush who owned the Big Nugget mine in Porcupine Creek, Alaska, died Friday morning in his sleep, according to his family. He was 96. Born in Kansas in 1920, Schnabel was during his life a bootlegger who fled to Alaska to escape the…

Discovery’s Gold Rush logged 6.393 million viewers in Live + 3 for its fifth season finale, marking its strongest season wrap-up yet. Long strong with men, the men-and-mines reality series picked up enough women to rank as Friday night’s top program on cable in overall audience, as well as adults 18-34, 18-49 and…

The fifth season debut of Discovery Channel’s Gold Rush was Friday night’s most watched cable program, clocking nearly 3.6 million viewers — a nice jump compared to last season’s opening 2.9 million. Fueling the ratings spike for the two-hour kickoff: guys. The Gold Rush kickoff was the night’s second highest rated…

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Hurt (aka Dakota Fred) and his son Dustin Hurt from Discovery's reality series Gold Rush will be the subject of All That Glitters, a new documentary currently filming in Haines, Alaska and directed by Kirk Roos, producer of The Brass Teapot and Matt Walsh's comedy directorial canon High Road and the…