TIME BANDIT LOSES A CAPTAIN SERIES

TIME BANDIT LOSES A CAPTAIN SERIES

Accolades įor the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, the series won Outstanding Reality Program for the first time.

Quite the contrary: “Deadliest Catch” has brought old-school documentary sobriety to a genre more often known for shamelessness.' Seitz concluded that ''Deadliest Catch' is a Trojan Horse reality show, smuggling integrity into a morally bankrupt genre. Barnum mentality that powers most unscripted programs. Harris' passing 'with intelligence and taste', stating that 't no point did the series succumb to dumb voyeurism. In reviewing 'Redemption Day', Matt Zoller Seitz of praised the series' handling of Capt. Club stated that due to the passing of Captain Harris prior to the season, episodes from the sixth season became 'some of the most riveting and emotionally wrenching episodes of any reality series in TV history.' Reviewing the season's DVD release, Paul Mavis of DVD Talk considered it to be 'he most emotionally involving season of the series so far.' Michael Hann of The Guardian, while reviewing the box set release of the first ten seasons, gave high praise to season six, considering it 'one of the most profoundly moving series of TV episodes I’ve ever seen'. The season received critical acclaim from critics, largely due to the emotional storyline involving Captain Phil Harris, who died in February 2010 after suffering from a stroke.

The record would be surpassed by later episodes in the season, such as 'Blown Off Course', 'Empty Throne' (5.24 million), 'Cain and Abel' (5.26), and 'Redemption Day' (8.5).

'Slow Burn', the season premiere, received at the time the highest number of American household viewers in the show's history.

Time bandit loses a captain