Dirty Jobs

SEASON PREMIERE Sunday, Jan. 2, 8/7c, Discovery

- Kate Hahn

TURNS OUT THE toughest part of rebooting Discovery’s gloriously grimy reality hit, which sends host Mike Rowe out to apprentice with skilled laborers, is finding enough grubby new gigs for him. “The challenge now is not to get dirty and work hard; the challenge is to apply it to jobs that we haven’t done,” says the king of crud in his distinctive baritone voice, one that bounced off mine shafts, septic tanks and other filthy surfaces during the series’ initial 2005 to 2012 run.