TOTAL SHOCK, REALITY TV NOT SO REAL

Oh the shame. First "Survivor", then "The Hills," and now the Discovery Channel darling "The Deadliest Catch" has been caught beefing up some scenes and maybe making it a bit scarier than it probably needed to be, not that 20+ foot high waves aren't scary enough, but still. Who would have ever thought that a reality show wouldn't be completely real, hmmm.

Seems those producers at TDC had some pretty good footage of the Alaskan crab fishing boat the Wizard springing a leak back on September 26. Well that wasn't interesting enough so they had a little footage of huge waves from October 1 and 2 so figured why not throw it all together, mix it all up, and BAM a show. But wait, there may have been some more footage that would give it that extra oomph so they may have went back and added some more footage from another day, although this is not 100% clear. Here's the real corker, they may have even used re-enactments, take that reality.

I'm shocked people. A rough draft of the idea was actually obtained by The Hollywood Reporter (original article). Something's a little fishy here I think.

A preview of The Deadliest Catch, at least the waves aren't fake.