From Thom Beers, the producer of Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” and History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers,” comes the rough, yet though-provoking “America’s Toughest Jobs,” scheduled to premiere tonight at 9 on NBC.

The fresh reality program involves the analysis of a variety of challenging careers that sets in tough opposition workers who perform physically demanding jobs, swapping a comfortable executive life for one of permanent physical effort.

However, “America’s Toughest Jobs” is more like a gameshow than an usual reality program, since it tests 13 men and women who all of a sudden decide to go out of their comfy careers and black suits and land in the shoes of workers who perform some of the most dodgy and challenging jobs on earth. The contestants, if we may call them this way, will be thrown in forests, will be introduced to oil drilling on the Texas range or even to extreme fishing. What’s more, the tide is very high, because the normal folks have to be at least as good as the pros, who normally do this for a living. Those who don’t make it will be forced to leave the competition hosted by Josh Temple.

The annual salaries of the tough jobs will be pooled and the ultimate winner will get all the money, which Thom Beers estimates to be “well over” $250,000.

The first couple of episodes will portray the contestants trying to crab fish on the Bering Sea and drive on the dangerous roads of northern Alaska. Nonetheless, “America’s Toughest Jobs” highlights the treacherous jobs too much, rather than emphasizing the competitors’ hard work. It’s more about the actions and less about the people.

Notwithstanding the difficulty of the respective careers, they would not exist if people didn’t perform them and they would not be considered risky if people were not people. This is the new show’s big mistake and even the oil mine may find it somehow dreary.