Deadliest Catch
New Captain on the Block
TV Flash files “New Captain on the Block” as hour 157 of 380 in the TV Flash guide — Deadliest Catch (2005–present) on Discovery, season 11, episode 11, aired 2015-06-23, 45 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S11E11: listed hour 157 of 380 in the Deadliest Catch guide, hour 11 of 18 in season 11. It aired 2015-06-23 (45 min). The listed hour before it is “Lunatic Fringe” (S11E10). Next is “5-Year Storm, Part 1” (S11E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While Jake Anderson prepares to captain the Saga for the first time, Captain Andy Hillstrand returns to find the Time Bandit in disarray.
Viewer FAQ
Where does New Captain on the Block sit in the Deadliest Catch guide?
S11E11 is listed hour 157 of 380 — hour 11 of 18 in season 11, season 11 episode 11.
When did Deadliest Catch S11E11 air?
New Captain on the Block aired 2015-06-23 and is listed at 45 minutes.
Is Deadliest Catch produced danger?
Weather is the antagonist. Reality television where the danger is survived on camera more than invented for it — crab boats, sleep debt, the Bering Sea.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Deadliest Catch is Discovery labor documentary as flagship — Captain Phil Harris lore, memorial episodes, reality television where the danger is not produced so much as survived on camera.
Deadliest Catch does not need a writers' room for weather. Thom Beers's Discovery series premiered in 2005 and became a long-running flagship: cameras riding with Alaskan crab fishermen through brutal seasons, nature and labor and mortality without a studio audience. Captains Phil Harris, Sig Hansen, Keith Colburn, Johnathan Hillstrand. A deck that does not care about your edit. Danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Workplace documentary-reality elevated into high-stakes seasonal event television.…
Filed against
- Phil Harris as Captain
Phil Harris was the captain on Deadliest Catch, Discovery’s 2000s Alaskan crab-boat flagship — weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Labor documentary as series, memorial episodes, reality television where…
- Sig Hansen as Captain
Sig Hansen captains Deadliest Catch as himself — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Discovery labor documentary as flagship, danger survived on camera rather than produced. TV Flash…
- Keith Colburn as Captain
Keith Colburn captains through Deadliest Catch as Discovery labor documentary, not a produced dare — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Reality television survived on camera. TV Flash…
- Johnathan Hillstrand as Captain
Johnathan Hillstrand captained Deadliest Catch as Alaskan crab-boat weather — Discovery labor documentary as flagship, a deck that does not care about your edit, danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Captain Phil Harris lore,…