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    Discovery heads to Oregon town for ‘Deadliest Catch’ spinoff

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    This photo provided by courtesy of Discovery shows Captain Gary Ripka standing on his boat, the FV Redeemer, at the dock in Newport, Ore., the setting of "Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove," airing in the fall of 2016 on Discovery. (Discovery via AP)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Makers of the popular Discovery network series "Deadliest Catch" are heading south to a fishing village in Oregon for a spinoff.

    The new series, called "Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove," is set to premiere next fall. It will focus on families involved in the Dungeness crab fishing industry in Newport, Oregon, the network said Friday.

    The announcement doesn't mean that the original series, which is set to begin its 12th season in the spring, is winding down, said Joseph Boyle, Discovery's executive producer for the show. Discovery executives were intrigued by the spinoff proposal from Original Productions, which makes "Deadliest Catch," he said. The original series, about fishing boats in Alaska's Bering Sea, is one of the network's signature programs.

    The industry around Newport was interesting to Discovery because fishermen race to catch as many fish as they can during a season, as opposed to working with a quota, he said.

    "It's every man for yourself," Boyle said. "They go out there and fish their hearts out."

    The boats also need to navigate massive waves, sandbars and currents.

    "It's just treachery on the water," he said. "It's a very, very deadly and dangerous place to fish."

    Discovery hasn't decided whether the new show will begin after the upcoming season of the original series ends sometime in the fall or if they will overlap, he said.

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    Chuck Woolery, host of “Love Connection” and “Scrabble,” dies at 83

    Sunday, November 24, 2024
    Chuck Woolery hosts a special premiere of the "$250,000 Game Show Spectacular" at the Las Vegas Hilton Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007, in Las Vegas. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

    Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of "Wheel of Fortune," "Love Connection" and "Scrabble" who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died. He was 83.

    Mark Young, Woolery's podcast co-host and friend, said in an email early Sunday that Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, present. "Chuck was a dear friend and brother and a tremendous man of faith, life will not be the same without him," Young wrote.

    Woolery, with his matinee idol looks, coiffed hair and ease with witty banter, was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and earned a daytime Emmy nomination in 1978.

    In 1983, Woolery began an 11-year run as host of TV's "Love Connection," for which he coined the phrase, "We'll be back in two minutes and two seconds," a two-fingered signature dubbed the "2 and 2." In 1984, he hosted TV's "Scrabble," simultaneously hosting two game shows on TV until 1990.

    "Love Connection," which aired long before the dawn of dating apps, had a premise that featured either a single man or single woman who would watch audition tapes of three potential mates and then pick one for a date.

    A couple of weeks after the date, the guest would sit with Woolery in front of a studio audience and tell everybody about the date. The audience would vote on the three contestants, and if the audience agreed with the guest's choice, "Love Connection" would offer to pay for a second date.

    Woolery told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003 that his favorite set of lovebirds was a man aged 91 and a woman aged 87. "She had so much eye makeup on, she looked like a stolen Corvette. He was so old he said, 'I remember wagon trains.' The... Read More

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