canceled?


Is it still airing? My media center has not recorded any new episodes.

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I'm wondering the same thing. When no new episodes of MythBusters are airing, I would watch this show as a subsutite.

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The idea has potential but the execution was poor, I think. Individually each of the cast members would make a good third host but I don't think any of them really have what it takes to front a show in an engaging way, at least not yet. Collectively their chemistry seemed forced, possibly because each of them seem somewhat generic.

Leaving the cast behind, almost every one of the ideas tested on the show were horribly impractical. There were several times over the first season when watching their experiments that I feared something would go massively wrong, and on a couple of occasions we nearly saw just that. I'm just not convinced that the cast has the experience necessary to really pull off the concept.

If they want to try and salvage the show, they need to put some serious effort in to making their science more rigorous and possibly to change the focus. If the premise is "blow things up and pretend to have a reason for it", that's fine, but don't insult the viewer's intelligence doing it. Most fans of this type of show are pretty savvy and are quick to spot glaring errors.

Get a couple of crazed, one-eyed demolitions experts and let them dream up *obviously* flawed experiments that involve obviously gratuitous explosions and the show might fare better. No one will watch it with any other expectation than to be entertained.

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