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The Curse of Oak Island Season 6 will feature a massive 30 hours of footage, History has revealed. The announcement was made as new artwork for the season ahead was released by the network. The series’ sister show The Curse of Civil War Gold was also confirmed to be returning for a second season. The new artwork for The Curse of Oak Island depicts a silhouetted Marty and Rick Lagina, the brothers at the centre of the hunt for treasure on Oak Island. Holding a pick-axe and a metal-detector, they are stood atop a mound of dirt alongside a backhoe. […]

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Mountain Men Season 8 is happening, History has confirmed — but what date will the show return? The popular series was still in its seventh season when the announcement was made that it would be returning for an eighth instalment, which will include 13 episodes. History revealed the news in an official release saying Mountain Men was one of six shows being renewed by the network — alongside The Curse of Oak Island, The Curse of Civil War Gold, Alone, Swamp People and Truck Night in America. Five new shows were also announced — Yamashita’s Gold (working title); American Butcher (working […]

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Big news for History. Deadline reports the network has renewed six TV shows, including The Curse of Oak Island, and ordered five new series, including Ax Men Reborn.

Other renewed series include The Curse of Civil War Gold, Swamp People, Truck Night in America, Alone, and Mountain Men. Meanwhile, History's new slate of TV shows include the warrior series Knight Fight and the WWII treasure hunting series Yamashita's Gold.

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History Channel is rebooting “Ax Men,” with the working title “Ax Men Reborn.”

“Ax Men Reborn” is part of four new series pickups from the network, which includes “Brothers in Arms,” “Knight Fight,” “Yamashita’s Gold,” and “American Butcher.” The network also renewed “The Curse of Oak Island,” “The Curse of Civil War Gold,” “Truck Night in America,” “Alone,” “Swamp People,” and “Mountain Men.”

The original “Ax Men” ran for 9 seasons and 153 episodes 2008 to 2016.

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Here’s the official logline: The logging families of the Pacific Northwest have been torn apart since “Ax Men.” Untimely deaths and a changing economic landscape have threatened family businesses. For this new generation of loggers, now is the time to start wielding the ax as the timber industry is on the upswing again and the old guard is looking for redemption.

“Ax Men Reborn” is produced for History by Original Productions.

History has renewed six of its biggest unscripted series, including a massive 30-hour Season 6 order for flagship The Curse of Oak Island, which ranks as cable’s top nonfiction series among total viewers in Live +3, averaging over four million viewers. It is believed to be one of History’s largest orders ever. Additionally, the cable network has picked up a 10-episode second season of Oak Island’s promising offshoot, The Curse of Civil War Gold, the top nonfiction series launch across cable this season with total viewers. Also renewed for another season are Truck Night in America, History’s #2 new series this year; along with new seasons of hits Alone, Mountain Men and Swamp People.

Additionally, History is ramping up its nonfiction lineup with five new series greenlights, representing the first full slate shepherded by the network’s Evp Programming Eli Lehrer. It includes Ax Men Reborn, a reboot of...

The Curse of Civil War Gold’s lead treasure-hunter Kevin Dykstra suffers a serious accident on this week’s episode of the History show. Footage shows him jumping into Lake Michigan from a boat wearing full scuba-diving gear, but on his way into the water he hits an object of the side of the vessel with his oxygen tank. He appears unable to swim and is thrown a life ring before the boat rushes back to land, where he is carried off on a stretcher and attended to by awaiting paramedics. The accident happens just as Kevin and his team are beginning […]

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The team behind new History show The Curse of Civil War Gold hunt for a cave on this week’s episode — which was once believed to have been used to hide 280 gold bars. Last week’s episode saw treasure-hunter Kevin Dykstra and his team explore the history of lumber tycoon turned banker Charles Hackley in Muskegon, Michigan — who they believe played a huge role in laundering looted Confederate gold — and this week they examine his mining operations in Utah. Dykstra believes Hackley smuggled the gold to the state by rail so he and others could make it look […]

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The Curse of Civil War Gold is two episodes down going into this week’s episode — as Kevin Dykstra and his team try and convince Marty Lagina that their theory about Confederate gold lying at the bottom of Lake Michigan is true. The premiere of the new treasure-hunting show saw the group head to Georgia to scope out the site where they believe $2million worth of bullion was looted from Confederate president Jefferson Davis. In the second episode they attempted to find a ‘forgotten railroad’ which they believe was used to transport the gold to Michigan several years later. As we […]

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Treasure-hunter Kevin Dykstra and his team find evidence of a possible “Forgotten Railroad” on tonight’s second episode of new History series The Curse of Civil War Gold. The group try to find the old train line in a bid to help prove to The Curse of Oak Island star and businessman Marty Lagina that Dykstra’s […]

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Spoiler Alert! Don’t read below here if you don’t want to know what happened in the premiere of The Curse of Civil War Gold. The Curse of Civil War Gold has debuted on History! The new show follows the hunt for $2million — $140million in today’s money — of lost Confederate gold believed to be […]

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History’s newest unscripted series is off to a golden start. The A&E Networks-owned cable net’s premiere of The Curse of Civil War Gold on Tuesday was the biggest launch of a cable series this season and the network’s best since 2014. Featuring Marty Lagina from History’s biggest series, The Curse of Oak Island, Civil War Gold lured 2.3 million total viewers, along with 938,000 adults 25-54 and 688,000 in 18-49. Its numbers certainly were helped by its lead-in: the Season…...

The Curse of Civil War Gold premieres tonight — following a hunt for lost Confederate gold which it’s believed could be worth as much as $140million today. In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was trying to flee Union soldiers when he was tracked down and arrested. But millions of dollars’ worth of Confederate gold and silver that he was believed to have had with him vanished. The mystery of what happened to that lucrative haul continues to this day, with several theories abounding — but treasure-hunter Kevin Dykstra thinks he has the answer. The Curse of Civil War Gold centers around\.\.\.