One year ago, Gold Rush star Todd Hoffman tipped Monsters and Critics to a potential new show he was working on with his producing partner to pitch to Discovery and other networks including Netflix and Amazon. The premise of his show, as the former Gold Rush star revealed in our exclusive interview last October, was to see complete greenhorns (everyday amateur people) competing as miners to recover gold. Now the show’s development has been confirmed, with Deadline revealing that Hoffman and his Züm Media partner Jose Behar have signed a deal with Ice Road Truckers super producer Thom Beers and Jeff Conroy, […]
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- 10/24/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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 multi-platform production company BoBCat Studios to create the show.
Tentatively titled Greenhorn Gold, the series will feature a cast of men and women from all walks of life as novice miners attempting to dig for gold in a blue collar, competition-style reality show. After a massive tryout, the greenhorn miners will be eliminated one-by one until only six remain at the end of the season. Those six will walk away with life-changing money in raw gold to take home to their families.
Hoffman was the breakout star of Gold Rush when the Discovery Channel docuseries premiered in 2010, following him,...
Hoffman and Jose Behar’s Züm Media has signed a development deal with Beers and Conroy’s new multi-platform production company BoBCat Studios to create the show.
Tentatively titled Greenhorn Gold, the series will feature a cast of men and women from all walks of life as novice miners attempting to dig for gold in a blue collar, competition-style reality show. After a massive tryout, the greenhorn miners will be eliminated one-by one until only six remain at the end of the season. Those six will walk away with life-changing money in raw gold to take home to their families.
Hoffman was the breakout star of Gold Rush when the Discovery Channel docuseries premiered in 2010, following him,...
- 10/23/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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 in various stages of development. describes itself as a specialist in “premium, branded, and creator-driven content for television, film, and digital…...
- 2/12/2018
- Deadline
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 in various stages of development. describes itself as a specialist in “premium, branded, and creator-driven content for television, film, and digital…...
- 2/12/2018
- Deadline TV
“We miss him already.” Jose Behar is calling from an Oregon-based location shoot for Electric Entertainment’s upcoming television series “The Librarians.” The producer’s admiration for Vince Porter comes across loud and clear, even over a sometimes-fuzzy cellphone connection. Porter, the former executive director of the Oregon Governor’s Office of Film & Television, was instrumental in attracting Dean Devlin’s production company to the state with the second season of its TNT series “Leverage”; it was a sort of ground-zero event for the boom in film and especially television production throughout the state—with a mix of economic incentives, an abundance of local technical and creative talent, and Porter’s own reputation, based on his 12 years at Showtime and tenure as its vice president of production. After its first season was shot in Los Angeles, a plan to move the second season of “Leverage” to Canada was dropped after meetings with Porter,...
- 5/7/2014
- backstage.com
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