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America's Toughest Jobs
SERIES: NBC, Monday 9:00p (60 minutes)


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Contestants try out some of the jobs seen on the Discovery and History Channel's popular documentaries, including crab fishing and driving trucks on ice.

GENRE(S):	Reality (Competitive)
CREATED BY:	Thom Beers
FIRST AIR DATE:	August 26, 2008

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Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

This hybrid, which is competent but not terribly distinctive, may not be unique enough to thrill reality fans or familiar enough to satisfy devotees of “Deadliest Catch.”

New York Daily News David Hinckley

This group doesn't need a villain or a backstabber, at least in the early stage. The job is enough of an equalizer.

Newsday Verne Gay

Problem here is that Beers is yoking his specialty with something that is not his forte--reality competition. The result often feels forced and frivolous.

Washington Post Tom Shales

The basic formula is by now so groaningly familiar, and the premise so weak and weary, that there's only the "reality" part of this docu-game, or whatever it ought to be called, to tempt one's interest, and that not much.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

This show amounts to yet another example of the pains people will take to appear on TV. By the end of the premiere, even the crabs are starting to look a little bored.

Variety Brian Lowry

America's Toughest Jobs misfires, primarily, due to the fact that the elimination component feels like a tired add-on to the summer-camp-for-adults premise.

Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond

America's Toughest Jobs has been fully homogenized and networkized to appeal to a more mainstream crowd, meaning it has successfully neutered one of the few unscripted genres with genuine grit and originality and made it look, sound and feel like every other "Survivor" knockoff.

Baltimore Sun David Zurawik

Are you ready for a new fall network series--even a lame one?

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America's Toughest Jobs SERIES: NBC, Monday 9:00p (60 minutes)

America's Toughest Jobs
SERIES: NBC, Monday 9:00p (60 minutes)