“Dirty Jobs” made its television debutin 2003with the first of three pilot episodes airing on Discovery.
“No one was supposed to watch this thing,” Rowe mused.
That horse kept racing until 2013, when Roweannouncedthat “Dirty Jobs” had been canceled.
““He could build a house without a blueprint.”
The result was a short segment featuring Rowe, titled “Somebody’s Gotta Do It.”
He never received a response.
He also sent the same tape to various other networks none of which demonstrated any interest.
Everything changed, however, when he partnered with TV producer Craig Piligian.
What they may not have realized, however, was how dangerous some of those dirty jobs actually were.
“Dirty Jobs,” by its very nature, is not one of those shows.
According to McGirt, the process is akin to “improv theater with heavy machinery.”
It’ll haunt your dreams.”
Rowe even presented Whiteneck with a “little memento” commemorating the incident: a banana.
“I flick the switch, and you see the flames pop up,” he said.
He wound up having to remove pieces of the lenses out afterward.
“I’m on the road 300 days a year on average,” Rowe toldEntertainment Weekly.
“That’s the real job, being on the road and just living that life.”
As Rowe explained in an interview withWired, his primary agenda when filming is to have no agenda.
“The stuff in the field, however, that we do on ‘Dirty Jobs’ is never written.
Nothing’s written down.
Can’t do it.”
“The fact is that work is bigger than dirt,” Rowe explained.
“And the show isn’t really about dirt and jobs, it’s about work and people.”
In Rowe’s new series, Rowe met people with out-of-the-ordinary jobs that were more quirky than dirty.
“It’s really about the person,” Rowe toldTVLineof his new show.
That series did well enough for a full-on “Dirty Jobs” revival.
Discovery issuedanother announcement, this time revealing “Dirty Jobs” was returning at the start of 2022.
“Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in!”
quipped Rowe, referencing Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone in"The Godfather Part III.
