Blue Collar Millionaires
| Blue Collar Millionaires | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary Docu-series |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers |
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| Camera setup | Multiple |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | CNBC |
| Release | July 15, 2015[1] – February 22, 2017 |
Blue Collar Millionaires is an American television docu-series that airs on CNBC. The series follows different Americans with blue collar occupations who have become millionaires.[2] The eight part half-hour series was commissioned by CNBC in January 2015[3] and is produced by 495 Productions.[1]
Broadcast
[edit]The series premiered in America on CNBC on July 15, 2015, with two episodes airing back-to-back. Two new episodes premiered for the following three weeks.[1] A second season debuted on January 4, 2017 consisting of 10 episodes airing across five weeks with Tim McGraw as narrator.[4]
Episodes
[edit]Season 1 (2015)
[edit]| No. in series |
Title[5] | Original air date | U.S. viewers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Trash to Cash" | July 15, 2015 | N/A | |
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A concrete pourer explains how he earned enough to live in a mountain mansion, a woman turns her fondness for horses into an empire and two best friends quit the corporate world to instead make money throwing out rubbish. | ||||
| 2 | "Just Killin' It" | July 15, 2015 | N/A | |
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Find out how a man from Texas makes a killing cleaning up hazardous products, an exterminator who makes millions from squishing bugs and a couple's fortune from the tattoo industry. | ||||
| 3 | "Reap What You Sew" | July 22, 2015 | N/A | |
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Find out how a farmhand began an auto empire, a couple made a fortune farming unusual animals and how a musician made a career in industrial curtains. | ||||
| 4 | "Smells Like Money" | July 22, 2015 | N/A | |
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Follow how a man gets rich in the oil game, a taxidermist makes his fortune and an immigrant gets filthy rich in the waste disposal industry. | ||||
| 5 | "A Whole Can of Worms" | July 29, 2015 | 363,000[6] | |
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Discover how a technician from Florida became a leader, a couple from California made money from worms and a college dropout turns junk into treasure. | ||||
| 6 | "Through the Roof" | July 29, 2015 | N/A | |
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Find out how a local roofer rose to the top, a landscaper grew his part-time job into an empire and an immigrant from India who owns a series of service stations. | ||||
| 7 | "Out of the Ashes" | August 5, 2015 | 360,000[7] | |
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Meet a LA mechanic who found business in an underground car culture, a father and son who started a flooring business inspired by wild fires and a manufacturing mogul from Detroit. | ||||
| 8 | "Money Grows on Trees" | August 5, 2015 | 310,000[7] | |
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We meet a man who went from driving a limo to being driven in one, an arborist who built a business and a roofer who got rich. | ||||
Season 2 (2017)
[edit]| No. in series |
Title[8] | Original air date | U.S. viewers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Flooring Kings" | January 4, 2017 | 473,000[9] |
| 2 | "The Legend of Mickey Redwine" | January 4, 2017 | 330,000[9] |
| 3 | "Married with Gators" | January 11, 2017 | 314,000[10] |
| 4 | "Tow Fetish" | January 11, 2017 | 248,000[10] |
| 5 | "Seeing Green" | January 18, 2017 | 268,000[11] |
| 6 | "The Millionaire Chimney Sweep" | January 25, 2017 | 242,000[12] |
| 7 | "Soldier of Fortune" | February 1, 2017 | 218,000[13] |
| 8 | "The Mammoth Hunter" | February 8, 2017 | 251,000[14] |
| 9 | "I'll Never Tire of It" | February 15, 2017 | 272,000[15] |
| 10 | "Fake It Till You Make It" | February 22, 2017 | 323,000[16] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "CNBC's New Series 'Blue Collar Millionaires' to Premiere Wednesday, July 15th". CNBC. 1 July 2015. Archived from the original on 31 July 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- ^ "CNBC Announces Three New Primetime Original Series Coming This Summer". The Futon Critic. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- ^ "CNBC Breaks Primetime Records in 2014 - Delivers Best Year Since 2001 in Primetime". The Futon Critic. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- ^ "CNBC's 'Blue Collar Millionaires' Season 2 Premieres January 4th". Reality Wanted. December 30, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
- ^ "Blue Collar Millionaires: Season 1 Episodes". TV Guide. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 7.29.2015". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on 30 July 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 8.5.2015". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ^ "BLUE COLLAR MILLIONAIRES (CNBC)". Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch. "UPDATED with Broadcast: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.4.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.11.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on January 12, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.18.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on January 20, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.25.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on January 28, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.1.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.8.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on February 9, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.15.2017". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on February 17, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ Metcalf, Mitch. "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.22.2017 (Broadcast Finals available Friday)". ShowBuzzDaily. Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.