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The Big Brain Theory

  • Watchlist
  • 2013-2013
  • 1 Season
  • Discovery Channel
  • Game Show, Reality
  • TV-PG
  • Watchlist

Follow two teams of contestants as they attempt to solve a seemingly impossible engineering challenge each week, from a missile defense system to robots that serve food. Celebrity judges include car racer Carl Edwards and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. At the end: a $50,000 grand prize.

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Cast & Crew See All

Kal Penn
Self - Host
Andrew Stroup
Self - Contestant & Defense Systems Engineer
Amy Elliott
Self - Contestant & Engineering Grad Student

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The Next Great Innovator

Wed, May 1, 201343 mins

Ten of the country's brightest minds begin a competition designed to discover the next great American Innovator.

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Watch My Show: The Big Brain Theory's Kal Penn, Craig Piligian Answer Our Showrunner Survey

Kal Penn has played his share of doctors (House, How I Met Your Mother) and stoners (the Harold & Kumar films), and he'll star in CBS's new comedy We Are Men this fall. He's currently hosting Discovery's new competition series The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius (Wednesdays, 10/9c). The show presents...

Wed, May 15, 2013
Watch My Show: The Big Brain Theory's Kal Penn, Craig Piligian Answer Our Showrunner Survey

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

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