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Six burly men with even burlier beards -- "hit hard by the economic downturn" -- brave the wilderness in "Gold Rush: Alaska," which, shockingly, doesn't come from producer Thom Beers but looks like it should. Adding to the growing niche of crab-catchers, oil-riggers and ice-road truckers, the series hinges on a group of grizzled Oregonians who bet it all on finding gold before the $150,000 they've raised to fund the operation runs out. Weighed down by clunky narration, the producers labor mightily to generate suspense but never quite strike the mother lode.