MythBusters

2003-2018
15 seasons
Science Channel
Documentary, Suspense, Reality
TV-PG

Mythbusters takes myths, tall tales and urban legends and gives them the scientific treatment to determine their validity. Myths are proved true, probable, possible, improbable or busted. Often after the real-world practical tests have proved or debunked a Myth, the team will take the experiment to the extreme, many times using more modern technology than the myth could have used or upping the black powder for impressive explosions.

2003-2018
15 seasons
Science Channel
Documentary, Suspense, Reality
TV-PG

Netflix Orders Series from MythBusters Alums

The White Rabbit Project will premiere in December

Mon, Sep 5, 2016

Netflix Orders Series from MythBusters Alums

All the Awesome Guilty Pleasure Reality Shows Coming to Hulu in July

And the return of Difficult People!

Wed, Jun 22, 2016

All the Awesome Guilty Pleasure Reality Shows Coming to Hulu in July

Mythbusters Returns to Science Channel with Search for Hosts in Reality Competition

Can the new hosts live up to the legend?

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

Mythbusters Returns to Science Channel with Search for Hosts in Reality Competition

Mythbusters Canceled After 14 Seasons

The show promises to "go out with a bang," though

Wed, Oct 21, 2015

Mythbusters Will Tackle The Simpsons in Its Season Premiere

They've taken on the science of Breaking Bad and the zombies of The Walking Dead, and now they're taking on ... Bart Simpson? Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman will tackle the myths of The Simpsons in Mythbusters' Season 13 premiere next month, reports Entertainment Weekly.

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Mythbusters Will Tackle The Simpsons in Its Season Premiere

Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara Are Leaving MythBusters

Three familiar faces are leaving the long-running Discovery Channel seriesMythBusters. Kari Byron, Grant Imahara and Tory Bellici will be leaving the show after 10 years. Details of their departures are scarce, but Byron tweeted: "The show is taking a new direction. It was an amazing run. I learned so much about myself and the world. I love you all @MythBusters."

Sun, Aug 24, 2014

Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara Are Leaving MythBusters

Discovery Announces Scripted Robert Redford Series, Nik Wallenda Special and More

Discovery Channel is getting into the scripted business with a new series about the Old West from Robert Redford. Announced as part of Thursday's Discovery Communications upfront presentation, the network is launching The West, a series spanning 40 years between the end of the Civil War and after the turn of the 20th century. The series, from Redford's Sundance Productions and Stephen David Entertainment, will feature famous characters from American History, including Jesse James, Wyatt Earp and Buffalo Bill.Discovery Channel is getting into the scripted business with a new series about the Old West from Robert Redford. Announced as part of Thursday's Discovery Communications upfront presentation, the network is launching The West, a series spanning 40 years between the end of the Civil War and after the turn of the 20th century. The series, from Redford's Sundance Productions and Stephen David Entertainment, will feature famous characters from American History, including Jesse James, Wyatt Earp and Buffalo Bill.

Thu, Apr 3, 2014

Discovery Announces Scripted Robert Redford Series, Nik Wallenda Special and More

Weekend Review: TCM Goes to the Oscars, Sherlock's "Last Vow"

"It's a room full of excitement. It's a room full of sweat," recalls Ellen Burstyn, who won her Oscar in 1975 for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. "It's your bar mitzvah times a million," says director-writer Jason Reitman, a four-time nominee (Up in the Air, Juno) who remembers getting over his loss with a post-show visit to In-N-Out Burger. (My kind of guy.) "It's a bit like being in a car crash. Everything slows down, everything goes into slow motion," Helen Mirren reflects on the moment her name was read when she won in 2007 for The Queen.

Fri, Jan 31, 2014

Weekend Review: TCM Goes to the Oscars, Sherlock's "Last Vow"

The Thursday Playlist: Reign, White Collar Join a Crowded Night

History be damned. And that's no joke, though the show sometimes feels like one. The CW's Reign (Thursday, 9/8c) is all about herstory, an opulent and giddy bodice-ripper very loosely inspired by the teenage years of the ultimately ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots (a pouty Adelaide Kane). It's like Masterpiece Junior as seen on MTV after a jolt of Red Bull, or more to the point, Gossip Girl goes to court. And while it will win no prizes for scholarly accuracy (to put it mildly), Reign is such a fanciful folly of royal romance and literally poisonous court gossip that it's hard not to hail a CW show that breaks so lavishly from the network's usual formula of angst-ridden ghouls and cloying rom-com.

Thu, Oct 17, 2013

The Thursday Playlist: Reign, White Collar Join a Crowded Night

First Look: Mythbusters Tests Breaking Bad's Chemistry

Heisenberg has nothing on these guys! On August 12, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and star Aaron Paul join Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman for a special episode of...

Thu, Aug 8, 2013

First Look: Mythbusters Tests Breaking Bad's Chemistry

The Wednesday Playlist: Americans Finale, ABC's Tools, HBO's Manhunt

It's May Day (as in: mayday!) for the Russian spies — and just about everyone else — in the taut first-season finale of FX's emotionally engrossing The Americans (Wednesday, 10/9c). Chivalry is not dead, even in the estranged not-quite-marriage of embedded KGB operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell), as they prepare for a dangerous mission that could be a set-up, with lots of jockeying and posturing between husband (who wants to protect while serving) and wife (who's adamant about following orders to the letter) about who's going to risk everything, including their "normal" family life, to walk into what might be a trap.

Wed, May 1, 2013

The Wednesday Playlist: Americans Finale, ABC's Tools, HBO's Manhunt

Exclusive Clip: Mythbusters Tests a Titanic Tale

They're kings of the myth-busting world! For their season premiere, Mythbusters experts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage teamed up with one of Hollywood's biggest directors, James Cameron, to address the show's most requested query: Could Titanic's Jack [Leonardo DiCaprio] and Rose [Kate Winslet] have both fit on the wooden piece of debris and survived together at the end of the movie?

Thu, Oct 4, 2012

Exclusive Clip: Mythbusters Tests a Titanic Tale

Guide to Weekend TV: Hell "Breaks" Loose on AMC, Plus Sharks and Monkey Business

NBC will surely miss the Olympics ratings bump once the Games are over, with closing ceremony set for Sunday, but the rest of TV is more than ready to get back to business. Even as the torch is being snuffed on NBC, the lights are going on elsewhere. Including on AMC, which airs one of the most gripping episodes to date — and that's saying something — of its dark masterpiece Breaking Bad (10/9c), in conjunction with the return of the drearily dour Western Hell on Wheels (9/8c) for its second season.

Fri, Aug 10, 2012

Guide to Weekend TV: Hell "Breaks" Loose on AMC, Plus Sharks and Monkey Business

The Big Bang Theory Returns to Comic-Con

Comic-Con is a week away and the biggest comedy on TV is ready to take the biggest stage at the annual pop culture fiesta. The cast and producers of The Big Bang Theory are making their annual trek to the San Diego Convention Center on Friday, July 13, holding court in the iconic 6,500-seat Hall H. Adam Savage, co-host of Discovery's Mythbusters, will moderate the panel, from 12:05pm to 1:05pm.

Thu, Jul 5, 2012

The Big Bang Theory Returns to Comic-Con

MythBusters Launches Destructive Cannonball Into Neighborhood

Science took a dangerous turn Tuesday when the Mythbusters team had an experiment go awry. The Discovery Channel show was testing out a ballistics experiment when their cannon misfired and launched a cannonball into a California neighborhood just east of San Francisco, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Thu, Dec 8, 2011

MythBusters Launches Destructive Cannonball Into Neighborhood

Study Says Democrats Prefer Comedies; Republicans Love Reality TV

When it comes to politics and TV, you probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that liberal Democrats favor The Daily Show or Colbert Report.

Wed, Dec 7, 2011

Study Says Democrats Prefer Comedies; Republicans Love Reality TV

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010

Psych9/8c USAUSA gives Psych fans an early present tonight with back-to-back episodes. First up is a take on It's a Wonderful Life in which Shawn, reeling from bumbling a big case, dreams about what life in Santa Barbara would be like if he had never returned. Next, Shawn becomes an advocate for a zoo polar bear though to have killed its trainer. — Brie HearnAre you watching Psych? Tell usRead on for previews of Survivor: Nicaragua, Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Natalie Cole and David McCullough, MythBusters, Classic MLB Baseball, Hell's Kitchen and The Defenders.

Wed, Dec 15, 2010

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010

President Obama: Mythbuster in Chief

Myth: Barack Obama has better things to do than appear on a television series. Fact: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, better known as the MythBusters, have been recruited for the White House campaign to get kids excited about science. And so tonight the president shows up ...

Wed, Dec 8, 2010

Thanksgiving Weekend Marathon Roundup

If you're going to spend much of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend on the couch — after all, you'll have lots of food to digest -- there's plenty of TV to watch. Check out our marathon roundup: (All times are ET/PT and subject to change) Thursday, Nov. 25The Haunted (9 a.m.-8 p.m., Animal Planet)Millionaire Matchmaker (10 a.m.-6 p.m., Bravo)Mythbusters (9 a.m.-8 p.m., Discovery)

Wed, Nov 24, 2010

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Special Guests Rally for Sanity in D.C.

Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and Stephen Colbert's competing/companion March to Keep Fear Alive was refreshingly free of the usual liberal-vs.-conservative rhetoric and instead pointed a finger at a different adversary: the country's mass media. "We live now in hard times, not end times," The Daily Show host told the crowd during his "keynote address" Saturday at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert to host dueling rallies in D.C. Stewart said the rally was not "to suggest that times...

Sat, Oct 30, 2010

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Special Guests Rally for Sanity in D.C.

President Obama to Appear on Mythbusters

President Barack Obama announced Monday that he would appear on an upcoming episode of Mythbusters. At the White House Science Fair, the commander in chief introduced Mythbusters co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, with whom he'll challenge...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010

President Obama to Appear on Mythbusters

Roush Review: Ms. Griffin Goes to Washington

One of the most unlikely—on paper, anyway—regulars at the Emmy party the last few years has been the infamously outspoken Kathy Griffin and her cheeky Bravo docu-reality series My Life on the D-List. Including this year, it has been nominated five times for Outstanding Reality Program and won twice. This year, her hefty and relatively high-minded competition includes...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010

Roush Review: Ms. Griffin Goes to Washington

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, June 23, 2010

So You Think You Can Dance8/7c FoxViewers can be forgiven if they're still adjusting to all the changes this season, such as the participation of the All-Stars and the surprise unveiling of a Top 11. The contestants, however, don't have the luxury of easing into the proceedings. Indeed, just as soon as it began, Alexie Agdeppa was eliminated last week, and tonight the remaining Top 10 take the stage hoping to avoid an early exit.Read on for previews of the World Cup, Top Chef, Jimmy Kimmel Live's Twilight Saga: Total Eclipse of the Heart, Mythbusters: Car Conundrum, Cedric the Entertainer's Urban Circus and Criminal Minds.

Wed, Jun 23, 2010

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Top Chef: Washington, D.C.9/8c BravoThe culinary competition series rocks the vote when it relocates to Washington, D.C., for its seventh season. A town marked by its fiery divisive politics gets hotter when 17 new food fighters square off in heats for top-chef honors and a $125,000 prize. In the opener, the chefs must prepare food fare that best represents themselves and their home region, plating their meals at the National Cherry Blossom festival. While one contestant will flower to a win, another will wilt and fade away. Series incumbents Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons return in their usual roles, while chef Eric Ripert serves as a new series judge.Read on for previews of TV's Greatest Surprises: A Paley Center for Media Special, Hot in Cleveland, In Plain Sight, 30 for 30, Fabulous Beekman Boys and Mythbusters Top 25 Moments.

Wed, Jun 16, 2010

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Letters to the President8 pm/ET HBO2 When a nation plays it as close to the vest as Iran, it's hard to know what goes on behind its borders, but a trio of documentaries seek to give at least a glimpse of what makes the country tick. The first is Letters to the President, a look at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's correspondence with the populace. It's followed by The Queen and I on June 17 (8 pm/ET), a chronicle of a former revolutionary's relationship with the Shah's widow, and Be Like Others: Transsexuals in Iran on June 24 (8 pm/ET).Read on for previews of Top Chef Masters, American Masters, Real World/Road Rules Challenge and Mythbusters.

Wed, Jun 10, 2009

Tonight's TV Hot List: Wednesday, June 10, 2009

VIDEO: The MythBusters Return with a Bang, Smash and Pratfall!

This Wednesday at 9 pm/ET, Discover Channel's MythBusters — led by Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage — returns with a "Demolition Derby Special," in which our stalwart experimenters try to flip a bus (à la Speed), compact a compact car, and mimic a remarkable Lexus commercial. In this video Q&A with TVGuide.com, Hyneman and Savage discuss the difficulty they often face in recreating "once in a million occurrences," with Savage admitting, "Sometimes it really kicks our butt." Also coming up in the show's seventh season: another Alaska special, in which they try to sail a boat made out of sawdust and ice, a nod to Seinfeld (does double-dipping really spread germs?), and an in-depth expose of, yes, the age-old banana-peel slip. Says Hyneman of their look into the slapstick chestnut, "It's hilarious." See everything the guys had to share after the jump.

Wed, Apr 8, 2009

Ever Suck in a Helium Balloon?

Of course you have, who hasn't?! But the real question is: Do you know why you sound like one the Chipmunks after taking a swing of the gas? Mythbusters has the answer  and not only does the debunker break down the explanation, but he also demonstrates the opposite affect sulfur hexafluoride. Check it out  assuming you promise not to try this at home, of course.

Thu, Sep 18, 2008