Channel Surfing: 'Ice Pilots NWT' March 5, 2012, 7:30 am Does the mundane become interesting if you make it colder? Is iced coffee more exciting than plain old coffee? Frozen yogurt more spunky than regular yogurt? And so "Ice Pilots NWT," at least judging from the first episode, Monday night on the Weather Channel, does not appear as if it's going to be the most exciting reality show on television, or even the most exciting reality show on the Weather Channel. It follows the exploits of Buffalo Airways, which flies ancient-looking airplanes around the Northwest Territories of Canada delivering cargo and such. And in the premiere, we see the ice pilots basically not going anywhere. The episode involves an attempt to deliver a generator to a remote village. The plane's engines freeze during a stop at the generator-pickup point; much of the episode documents the crew's efforts to thaw them. It's as exciting as watching the maintenance work in a LaGuardia hangar. The episode tries to make us care about how much money the delay is costing Buffalo Airways, but money is never the reason people tune in to these shows. Potential crisis and calamity, those are the attractions. You hate to wish trouble on anyone, but "Ice Pilots" needs to find some stormy weather ahead.