Mythbusters-related stories
Posted Nov 10th 2009 2:00PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming
Nothing says "holiday season" like tornadoes, ghosts and animal dung. So, Discovery Channel is running marathons of their reality shows to make the yuletide season gay.
The network's scheduling release states that
Mythbusters,
Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs,
Storm Chasers and
Ghost Lab will each get a turn offering guys something to watch while they undo their belts after the big meal (and while the ladies do the dishes).
Here's the programming slate for when you're not watching football or
A Year without a Santa Claus:
Nov. 26: Thanksgiving Day:
Mythbusters – 9 a.m. ET/PT – 3AM ET/PT
Nov. 27: Day after Thanksgiving:
Deadliest Catch – 9 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Nov. 28:
Dirty Jobs – 10 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Nov. 29:
Storm Chasers – 1 p.m. – 3 a.m.
Dec. 24: Christmas Eve:
Dirty Jobs – 9 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Dec. 25: Christmas Day:
Mythbusters – 9 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Dec. 26:
Deadliest Catch – 9 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Dec. 31: New Year's Eve:
Ghost Lab – 10 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Jan. 1, 2010/New Year's Day:
Mythbusters – 9 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Posted Oct 24th 2009 12:17PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- At 7:30, FOX has Baseball Playoffs, the Yankees vs. the Angels.
- At 8, Animal Planet has two new episodes of Superfetch, followed by new episodes of Dogs 101 and America's Cutest Dog.
- At 8:30, Nickelodeon has a new True Jackson, VP.
- At 9, CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show.
- BBC America has a new Robin Hood at 9, then a new Graham Norton Show.
- Discovery has a new Mythbusters at 9.
- Syfy has the movie Ghost Town at 9.
- Food Network has Extreme Sweets at 9.
- WE has a new episode of The Locator at 9.
- At 9:30, Biography has a new Ghostly Adventures, followed by a new Celebrity Ghost Stories.
- At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
- There's a new episode of The Dish on Style at 10.
- At midnight, FOX has a new Sit Down, Shut Up.
- At 12:30AM, Cartoon Network has two new episodes of Bleach.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
Posted Oct 21st 2009 12:19PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has a new Hank, followed by new episodes of The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, and Eastwick.- CBS has a new Old Christine at 8, then new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
- NBC has new episodes of Mercy, Law and Order: SVU, and The Jay Leno Show.
- FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8, followed by a new Glee.
- The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8.
- PBS has a new Great Performances at 8.
- G4 has a new 2 Months $2 Million at 8.
- At 9, Discovery has a new Mythbusters at 9, then a new Time Warp.
- IFC has a new Monty Python: Almost The Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) at 9.
- History Channel has a new Nostradamus Effect at 9, followed by a new MysteryQuest.
- Showtime has a new Inside The NFL at 9.
- At 10, Comedy Central has a new South Park, then a new Secret Girlfriend.
- Bravo has a new Top Chef: Las Vegas at 10.
- FX has a new Nip/Tuck at 10.
- Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible at 10.
- TCM has The Third Man at 10.
- Also at 10: Travel Channel has a new Man vs. Food.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Old Christine, Glee, Cougar Town, Top Chef
Posted Oct 14th 2009 12:23PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
Hallmark has an I Love Lucy marathon all night.- At 8, ABC has a new Hank, followed by new episodes of The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, and Eastwick.
- CBS has a new Old Christine at 8, then new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
- NBC has new episodes of Mercy, Law and Order: SVU, and The Jay Leno Show.
- FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8, then a new Glee.
- There's a new America's Next Top Model on The CW at 8.
- PBS has a new American Masters at 8.
- Discovery has two new episodes of Mythbusters starting at 8, followed by a new Time Warp.
- At 9, Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters, then a new Destination Truth.
- History Channel has a new Nostradamus Effect at 9, followed by a new MysteryQuest.
- Showtime has a new Inside The NFL at 9.
- At 10, FX has the season premiere of Nip/Tuck.
- Bravo has a new Top Chef: Las Vegas at 10.
- Comedy Central has a new South Park at 10, then a new Secret Girlfriend.
- Current has the series premiere of Vanguard at 10.
- Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible at 10.
- Also at 10: Travel Channel has a new Man vs. Food.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: The Middle, South Park, Nip/Tuck, Man vs. Food
Posted Oct 7th 2009 12:09PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
TBS has Baseball Playoffs all night.- At 8, ABC has a new Hank, followed by new episodes of The Middle, Modern Family, Cougar Town, and Eastwick.
- CBS has a new Old Christine at 8, then new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
- NBC has new episodes of Mercy, Law and Order: SVU, and The Jay Leno Show.
- FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8, followed by a new Glee.
- There's a new America's Next Top Model on The CW at 8.
- Also at 8: ESPN2 has the WNBA Finals.
- At 9, Discovery has a new Mythbusters.
- History Channel has a new Nostradamus Effect at 9, then a new MysteryQuest.
- Syfy has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, then a new Destination Truth.
- At 10, Comedy Central has a new South Park, followed by the series premiere of Secret Girlfriend.
- Bravo has a new Top Chef: Las Vegas at 10.
- Travel Channel has a new Man vs. Food at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Old Christine, Mythbusters, Eastwick, Top Chef
Posted Oct 3rd 2009 10:00AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Interviews, Documentary
The
Mythbusters crew aren't scientists, but they sort of play them on TV -- submitting everything from movie stunts to common household sayings to proven analytic methods.
Of course, it's more fun to determine whether you can cut a tree in half with a machine gun than it is to test the effectiveness of a new polymer, so
Mythbusters gets a TV show -- and your average scientists don't.
To celebrate
Mythbusters' completion of its seventh series of episodes on Discovery Channel, series stars Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage hosted a set visit of their testing and production facilities in an industrial park just outside San Francisco's Mission District.
Hyneman led the tour himself through M5 Industries -- a former visual effects house turned production shop for the popular debunking series.
Continue reading Set Visit: Mythbusters wraps seventh series of science gone mad
Posted Jul 28th 2009 10:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con
I imagine a lot of stalkers must love a place like
Comic-Con. All of their most sought after celebrities are together in one place for easy pickings. It must be their Costco.
One star, however, decided to turn the tables on his fans and used his own costume to stalk and hunt down a few of his fans on the floor of this year's convention.
To make it even creepier, he dressed up like a clown. That slurping sound you hear is my spine falling out of its socket from uncontrollable shivering.
Continue reading Mythbuster Adam Savage goes undercover at Comic-Con
Posted Jul 14th 2009 10:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Ever gotten a bill in the mail so ridiculously high that it makes you wish you could rally together a ragtag army of disgruntled miscreants and take down the corporation that charged you "Viking style"?
Sure, we all have. So why don't you? Gathering an army takes time and most of us don't have many friends willing to take an arrow to the chest for us, much less a check. Arrows, while cheaper than bullets, can add up and aren't tax deductible. And I'm pretty sure that any looting and/or pillaging is a federal crime.
Mythbuster Adam Savage, however, has both the manpower and weaponry to pull just such a caper and he didn't have to bury one friend in a fiery ship at sea to do it.
Continue reading Adam Savage takes down AT&T without building some elaborate explosive device
Posted Jun 16th 2009 11:35AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
There is nothing inherently wrong with turning a TV series into a video game spinoff. It can fill in the gaps between seasons to quell the viewers' hunger, let audiences explore characters from new perspectives and even give the more hardcore couch potatoes some much needed exercise even if they only burned 1/100ths of a calorie solely through their thumbs.
The problem is video game developers pick TV shows that should never even become a travel sized board game. Developers have given the greenlight to games based on shows like
American Idol,
Desperate Housewives and even ...
Grey's Anatomy?!? I hope that last one was a first-person shooter.
There are far better shows that offer far more entertaining elements for a kick-ass video game. These are the shows that should be next in line for a pixelated re-treatment.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Shows that deserve to have their own video game
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has a new Wipeout, followed by two new episodes of The Goode Family and a new The Unusuals.- FOX has a new, two-hour So You Think You Can Dance at 8.
- NBC has a new I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Outta Here at 8, then the second part of Inside The Obama White House and the season finale of Law and Order.
- At 9, TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne, followed by two new episodes of Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.
- Discovery has a new Mythbusters at 9, then a new Pitchmen.
- A&E has a new Dog The Bounty Hunter at 9, then two new episodes of Tattoo Highway.
- History Channel has a new MonsterQuest at 9.
- At 10, ESPN has a World Cup Qualifying Match, U.S. vs. Costa Rica.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Reno 911!
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Goode Family, Law and Order, Reno 911
Posted May 27th 2009 4:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- At 8, ABC has the season premiere of Wipeout, followed by the series premiere of The Goode Family and new episodes of Surviving Suburbia and The Unusuals.
- CBS has George Strait: ACM Artist of the Decade All-Star Concert.
- FOX has a new, two-hour So You Think You Can Dance at 8.
- PBS has new episodes of Great Performances and American Masters.
- Discovery has a new Time Warp at 8, then new episodes of Mythbusters and Pitchmen.
- Also at 8: ESPN has the NBA Shootaround, followed by the Lakers/Nuggets game.
- At 8:30, Food Network has a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay, then a new Dear Food Network.
- At 9, TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne, followed by two new episodes of Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns.
- A&E has a new Dog The Bounty Hunter at 9.
- History Channel has a new MonsterQuest at 9.
- At 10, Spike has a new Ultimate Fighter.
- E! has a new "10 Greatest Stories" episode of E! True Hollywood Story.
- TCM has Shane at 10.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Wipeout, George Strait, Meet The Browns, Pitchmen
Posted May 20th 2009 4:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, FOX has the two-hour season finale of American Idol.- CBS has the season finale of Old Christine at 8, followed by the season finales of Gary Unmarried and Criminal Minds (two episodes).
- TNT has the Magic/Cavaliers game at 8.
- At 9, Discovery has a new Mythbusters, then a new Pitchmen.
- PBS has a new World War II: Behind Closed Doors at 9.
- At 10, NBC has a new Law and Order.
- Spike has a new Ultimate Fighter at 10.
- Also at 10: TV Land has a new episode of The Cougar.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Reno 911!
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: American Idol, Gary Unmarried, Mythbusters
Posted May 13th 2009 4:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has a new Lost recap show, then the two-hour Lost season finale.- CBS has a new Rules of Engagement at 8, followed by new episodes of Old Christine, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
- FOX has new episodes of Lie To Me and American Idol.
- The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8.
- PBS has a new Secrets of the Dead at 8, then a new World War II: Behind Closed Doors.
- Discovery has a new Time Warp at 8, followed by new episodes of Mythbusters and Pitchmen.
- At 9, TNT has the Mavericks/Nuggets game.
- At 10, NBC has a new Law and Order.
- TV Land has a new episode of The Cougar at 10.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Reno 911!
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Old Christine, Law and Order, Mythbusters
Posted May 6th 2009 4:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has the season (series?) finale of Scrubs, followed by new episodes of Lost and The Unusuals.- CBS has a new Old Christine, then new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
- FOX has new episodes of Lie To Me and American Idol.
- There's a new America's Next Top Model on The CW at 8.
- Discovery has a new Time Warp at 8, then new episodes of Mythbusters and Pitchmen.
- TNT has the Magic/Celtics game at 8, followed by the Lakers/Rockets game.
- At 10, NBC has a new Law and Order.
- TV Land has a new episode of The Cougar at 10.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Reno 911!
- TCM has Rio Bravo at 10:30.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Old Christine, Lie To Me, Reno 911, The Unusuals
Posted May 4th 2009 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.If you blinked last year, you probably missed NBC's
Crusoe. It's now on DVD, and it's one of those "season one" sets that also serves as a "complete series" sets.
If you're an
October Road fan, the season two set contains a 10 minute bonus episode that acts as the series-ender. It would be great if more shows did that when they're canceled.
- The Adventures of Black Beauty - Series 1
- Bleak House - Special Edition and Blu-ray
- Boston Legal - Season 5
- Crusoe - Complete Series
- Dexter - Season 2 (Blu-ray)
- Doctor Who - E-Space Trilogy and Battlefield
- Earth: Final Conflict - Season 1
Continue reading New TV on DVD releases this week
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