"American Chopper: The Series" (2003) TV series 2003-????

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown

Release Date:

7 January 2006 (Finland)

Genre:

Comedy | Reality-TV | Sport

Plot:

Documentary series about the goings-on behind the scenes at Orange County Choppers, a custom motorcycle fabrication company located in Montgomery...

Plot Keywords:

Motorcycle | Chopper | Custom Motorcycle | Motor | Bleeped Dialogue

Awards:

2 wins

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Nov. 9	1:00 AM	Fox	NY Giants Bike	#5.15
Thur. Nov. 12	8:00 PM	TLC

Cast

Mike Rowe	...	Announcer (62 episodes, 2003-2007)
Paul Teutul Sr.	...	Himself (40 episodes, 2003-2009)
Paul Teutul Jr.	...	Himself (40 episodes, 2003-2009)
Michael Teutul	...	Himself (39 episodes, 2003-2009)

Also Known As:

American Chopper (Australia)

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Pilgrim Films & Television

Quotes:

Paul Sr.: I'm not going ask twice, cos the second time I'll use my size 12.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Father of the Pride: Possession (#1.6)" (2004)

This belongs somewhere else, NOT on the Discovery Channel

I agree with Darthhatchman's comment "What ever happened to Discovery airing educational programming?" The Discovery Channel used to be made up of a wide array of interesting and informative shows, but now it's nothing but the same dumb shows all day, every day. They don't even show anything special on holidays. Normally, holidays have specials all over the place. Anymore, on the Discovery Channel and TLC all they show is marathons of things like American Chopper and Trading Spaces, which are already all over the normal programming.

The Discovery Channel has basically been turned into a car and home improvement network. Their shows like American Chopper, Monster Garage, and Surprise by Design have basically smothered the Discovery Channel. After all this started happening, Tuesday used to be the only night with their traditional Discovery programming, when they showed their law shows like The New Detectives. But now Tuesday has gone down with the rest of the programming, and now they apparently don't even make new episodes of their good law shows, and they just show old re-runs of them between 2PM-4PM on weekday afternoons.

American Chopper has absolutely no educational value and ironically is about the same basic concept of the show that killed TLC, "Trading Spaces", only on American Chopper, instead of people turning rooms into abstract art and wasted space, they're doing this to bikes and cars instead of homes.

Other than their law shows in the afternoon, about the only show with traditional Discovery Channel programming is their Assignment Discovery program (which is only shown at 5AM) and that's only because it's made up of the good, old Discovery programming. Programming that was actually interesting and worth watching. If they were going to air all of these car and biker shows, why didn't they just create a new channel for it? Not replace the original Discovery Channel programming, because it was so much better than all of this.

It was bad enough when things like this first happened to TLC, and shows like Trading Spaces took over TLC, but now the Discovery Channel has gone down the same path. It seems like all of the TV shows meant for intelligent people are being smothered by idiots. I really hope the Discovery Channel seriously considers changing the programming on both of these channels before they're completely ruined.