FIVE'S new series Ice Road Truckers is a smash hit in our household.
If you've not managed to catch it, I'll fill you in.
(To be read in style of a Hollywood voice-over):
At the top of the world, there's an outpost like no other . . . and a job only a few would dare.
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The mission: To haul critical supplies across 350 miles of frozen lakes to Canada's remote billion-dollar diamond mines.
The challenge: to transport 10,000 loads in 60 days - before the road disappears.
The rewards are great; the risks even greater. These are the men who make their living on thin ice.
Sounds like the plot of a blockbuster, doesn't it?
But the best bit is, it's totally real. For the guys who risk their lives every year to make more money in three months than then would for the rest of the year, this is a job.
For us, it's a quality piece of entertainment.
As you can imagine, the characters who do this for a living aren't your usual chaps.
There's rough-around-the-edges veteran trucker Hugh, who is known as The Polar Bear for his strong personality, bearish attitude and stamina.
There's the brash tattooed Rick Yemm, legendary father-of-11 Alex Debogorski and ice road rookie TJ Tilcox.
Each one of the men has his own reasons for making the deadly trips across the rapidly cracking ice road and each of them is TV gold.
Last night's episode saw Debogorski run into a severe arctic storm.
And you thought your day in front of the PC was tough?
Funny I also seem to have caught this programme inadvertently a number of times, very interesting I must say, still it's better entertainment than wife swap and all that malarky. Having said that you wouldn't expect a woman to be interested in ice road truckers.
Funny I also seem to have caught this programme inadvertently a number of times, very interesting I must say, still it's better entertainment than wife swap and all that malarky. Having said that you wouldn't expect a woman to be interested in ice road truckers.
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