If you haven’t seen the promos for the new show Motor City Motors, you haven’t been watching the Discovery Channel lately.
Motor City Motors is produced by Emmy Award winning Thom Beers, the same reality king who’s brought us several of our favorite shows on TV. Beers’ credits include Deadliest Catch
With Motor City Motors, Beers looks to bring yet another hit show to the Discovery Channel. Set to debut on Monday, December 28th while millions of viewers are off on holiday vacations, ratings for the new show could be very strong.
While Beers’ shows have been put into the ‘reality’ category, that term doesn’t do his shows justice. If you’re a Deadliest Catch addict like I am, you know what I’m talking about. While we love girls in bikinis, you’ll have a hard time finding one in any of his shows.
Instead, Beers’ productions tend to revolve around dramatic relationships wrapped around extreme situations that actually happen in real life. When you combine strong, unique personalities with difficult or dangerous environments, the result is much more engaging. These are the types of characteristics that set Beers’ shows into a category which are clearly different from prime-time network reality TV. It’s also why we’ll bank on just about anything the guy does.
Motor City Motors Summary
Take two brothers that build custom bikes in downtrodden Detroit. Add personalities, bad attitudes, machines, fire, cars and big chunks of metal to a tight deadline, and that’s the basic premise of the show. The brothers are Dave and James (Jamie) Kaye, owners of Detroit Brothers Custom Cycles.
The guys admit to a failing business about to go under (like everything else in Detroit), when along comes Thom Beers and Motor City Motors. Just in time it appears. While I have no clue about the amount of compensation these guys are getting, no doubt they’ll be doing well if the show becomes a hit.
In the first episode (airing December 28th) the guys take a 1926 Ford Model T and turn it into a rat rod. They have 5 days to build the beast, and beat a stock Model T in a drag race. Hot rod versus stock Model T is too easy you say? Well, it should be easy…if they meet the deadline without killing each other in the process.
Tune in to the Discovery Channel to watch tonight at 10pm ET.
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this is to all the people dissing this show: shut up!!! just because you cant wrap your minds around the complex physics involved in the builds doesnt mean you have to make a bad impression on the show and ruin it for everyone else!!!! and in reference to jamie being a “lazy ass” he is only like that for thie first couple of episodes. if you dont like the show doent ruin it for all the people who do!!!!
I have watched 3 episodes, and it is a FAIL. Its like a bad combination of Monster Garage and that idiot Jessy James. Its pointless and trivial in a time that people need inspiration not stupidity. I very much like the idea of the rebirth of Detroit, but this missed the mark in a big way.
Keep trying, the Ice programs always keep me interested….
Thanks,
Jim
Sorry Jeremy, your narration and the entire show lacks energy. I love the fact that Thom Beers has chosen Detroit as the location for the show, however, the first couple episodes were edited poorly and absolutely painful to watch. It wasn’t until you pitted two teams against each other during the Amphibion episode did it become somewhat easier to watch – I still found myself flipping to Pawn Stars and American Pickers.
Metro Detroit is overflowing with talent and the producers need not focus so much on the brothers when there are so many untapped resources (skilled engineers, proven builders, championship winning racers, etc.) that reside in the region. I agree with Baba Booey, get beyond the useless crap your building and create something that will truly put Detroit back on the road to recovery. Yes, Detroit is going through a hard time – it’s an easy story to tell and more than a little old – move on.
Detroiters get-up everyday and look for ways to make things better. We do this by supporting our American companies and putting in an honest day’s work (unlike Jamie who must have been born elsewhere). By the way, 80% of Michigan residents bought a domestic (headquarters in U.S.A.) with the Cash for Clunkers incentive – more than any other state. This is the story that Motor City Motors should focus on if the show is renewed for another season, which I do truly hope does happen. Poke
the corn harvester? If Jamie wants to be a leader he should probably show up on time and maybe have a game plan instead of rolling in late and taking hours off.
This is just a cheezy knockoff of Jesse James’ Monster Garage, very lame. Do you realize how many shows have been on because of Jesse? Anyway, its no surprise that their motorcycle shop is in trouble if Jamie builds bikes the way he acts on this show! What a complete idiot, here is this great opportunity for them to make some money and save their business and hes acting like a little baby about being the boss. He shows up late, then pouts cause they start without him, boohoo! Do you know how many talented people would kill for a chance like this in time of a recession? Grow up pal, I think they should cancel it and give the show to someone deserving!
No NO NO I just watched it last night , Please lets all write the Discovery channel and say NO we want and need this show here !!!!!!!!!! They should not just focus on there attention on those other car shows. We have the people here with talent and fresh ideas. Discovery if you cancel them I will Cancel YOU!!!!!!!!! Bob
I hope the show keeps going. If you show some nice areas of Detroit I think that would help with the overall image of the city
whens the show on next? im pissed it wasnt on this week. this is the best show ive seen in a long time.
I have been watching the show for a couple of weeks. The projects they build are cool but the one brother jammie is ass and he is lazy . He never seems to be around to help build.