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| Discovery Channel Unveils its Fall 2008 Programming Highlights |
| Posted
on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 07:26 PM |
New series on Discovery this fall include Cash Cab, Monster Moves and Verminator. Below is a list of new programs as well as specials that will cover various subject and people like Stephen Hawkins and the Pyramids.
NEW SERIES:
Cash Cab
Wed., Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. ET
You hail a taxi on a busy street, your mind already focused on your destination. But once inside the cab, you soon discover you’re in for the ride of your life – you’ve just buckled into Cash Cab and the meter is already running! On Cash Cab, unassuming people enter the car as simple passengers needing a taxi ride, only to discover that they’re instant contestants on Discovery Channel’s innovative and informative game show. The Cash Cab will drive you all the way to your destination and, en route, the host will ask general knowledge questions – growing progressively more challenging along the way – with each correct answer earning a cash award. The harder the question, the more money it’s worth – but beware of incorrect answers! A wrong answer earns a strike – and three strikes and you’re out! The moment the contestant misses their third question, the Cash Cab pulls over to the side of the road and the unlucky passenger is ejected onto the sidewalk – no matter how far away they are from their intended destination! A huge hit with viewers in the U.S., this original Canadian version of Cash Cab represents Discovery Channel’s first foray into game show programming.
Monster Moves (9x60)
Wed., Sept. 24 at 9 p.m. ET
Moving house is a logistical nightmare… but imagine the challenge of moving an entire house – fixtures, fittings, brick walls, chimney, windows and roof wholesale, through a major city, over a mountain range or across a frozen lake! These seemingly impossible feats are tackled by teams of building movers in the massive engineering series Monster Moves. In each episode of this new Canadian production, two teams of movers race against time to move two monstrous structures – including mammoth mansions, tall towers, lofty lighthouses, colossal cathedrals, massive machines, historic halls, sunken ships, long loads and huge hotels. No structure is off limits in Monster Moves!
Verminators
Mon., Sept. 8 at 9 p.m. ET
From rats to bats, this creepy-crawly new series follows Mike Masterson and his elite team of pest-busters to the front lines of their never-ending battle against infestations of all kinds. Up against roaches, killer bees, bedbugs, fleas and fire ants, the Verminators crisscross Los Angeles to track their prey through warehouses, hotels and houses, and with the help of remote cameras, even inside walls and plumbing systems.
Salvage Code Red (6x60)
Tues., Nov. 18 at 10 p.m. ET
In this dynamic high-stakes series, real-life action heroes race against time to rescue stricken ships in some of the world’s most dangerous waters. There are 500 serious ship wreck incidents reported annually, from explosions and fires on oil tankers, to ships wrecked by storms and head-on collisions. Salvage Code Red will take you up close and personal with the men who risk their lives boarding ships ablaze at sea or battling to save grounded vessels just as typhoon season is closing in. Marine salvaging is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs where lives are lost each year. This six-part series follows the action across the globe as teams battle to save stricken ships just moments away from environmental disaster. These are often complex engineering operations that require equal amounts of skill and courage.
Greensburg (13x60)
Fri., Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. ET
On May 4, 2007, a deadly tornado struck Greensburg, Kansas, ripping the town to shreds. Ninety-five per cent of the town was destroyed, 11 lives were tragically lost, and survivors were left without homes, businesses, schools and basic city services. Greensburg was gone and it seemed that all was lost for its residents. In this extraordinary series co-produced by acclaimed actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio and award-winning producer Craig Piligian, meet the people of this amazing town and witness the daily struggle of the community as it fights its way back from the edge of extinction. See how the lives and livelihood of Greensburg’s citizens are being changed by this massive reconstruction effort, and how innovative new construction methods are changing the face of modern engineering on a massive scale.
Combat School (6x60)
January 2009
This fully immersive documentary series puts viewers through the paces of the most intense and advanced infantry training in our nation’s history. Embedded with the soldiers of Mike Company in the Royal Canadian 3rd Battalion, Combat School captures the challenges and the triumph of mastering the cutting-edge science which drives today’s modern warfare training. From passing advanced weapons and equipment training to successfully completing full-on tactical war scenarios in a virtual Afghanistan, Canada has emerged as a leader in preparing it’s soldiers for the most dangerous and complex battlegrounds of 21st century warfare. Embedded with the platoon in Canada for six months, this is the first time the Canadian military has allowed the entire training process to be recorded for television. Upon completion of this rigorous process, Mike Company is then deployed in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan – with production crews by their side – to experience the transition from the high-tech theoretical world of the training grounds, to the realities of modern war.
Austin Stevens Adventures (12x60)
January 2009
Austin Stevens is one of the planet’s most passionate and energetic wildlife photographers. He’s renowned for his fearless encounters with the world’s most deadly snakes, but in this new series, he’s on a mission to photograph some of the world’s most dangerous animals. Come along for the ride as Austin Stevens travels to some of the most far-flung corners of the globe to get up close and personal with some very dangerous animals. Follow him into hyena dens in Ethiopia, where he encounters animals that could shred him to bits in mere seconds. Join him as he wades through the swampland of the Florida everglades in search of a deadly foreign invader, the Burmese python. Along the way, Stevens encounters all kinds of wildlife and rough terrain in pursuit of his treasured photographs. It’s an adventure like no other.
Wasters (6x60)
Premieres in 2009
Did you know that Canadians junk 7.5 times their own body weight in garbage every year? Or trash over two million television sets annually? We are a nation of outrageous wasters. In fact, 70 per cent of what we bury in landfill is completely recyclable and a lot of the big stuff is perfectly useable. Wasters will compell Canadians sit up and think about garbage in a way they never have before. Wasters puts four typical Canadian “wasters” the ultimate challenge – to transform a bare loft space in to a high-end, fully furnished two bedroom apartment using only garbage and discarded materials in – just one month! To help with the challenge, they will team up with up expert ‘freecylers’ – people who make a living rounding up trash and turning it into gold. Can they do it?
Breaking Point (6x60)
Premieres in 2009
We think our world is safe – the complicated objects that surround us have been engineered to be safe. But everything has its breaking point and when something as explosive as a fuel tanker crashes, it can cause devastation across an entire city block. In a series of spectacular stunts the Breaking Point team use destructive testing to push familiar objects to their limits and beyond. Go into the heart of destruction as it’s never been done before and see the results with the latest forensic technology to discover lethal flaws we never knew existed. Having found the breaking point of the object, our experts engineer an ingenious way to make it safer, proving that sometimes the only way to improve a thing is to destroy it.
How Machines Work (10x60)
Premieres in 2009
During takeoff, a 747 consumes more gas in one second than a Hummer uses in an hour. Experience the action from the inside as the fuel pumps lift the giant jet off the ground. Powered by gripping visual effects How Machines Work zooms inside 747s, locomotives, oil pipelines and more to reveal their internal workings. Gears, motors and axles fly apart and speed by as we hurtle towards the machine’s core. Each episode journeys inside three different machines, revealing a dynamic new understanding of how machines really work.
Coal (6x60)
TBD
This six-part series ventures underground with modern-day coal miners in Appalachia who brave the danger of coal mines every day.
NEW SPECIALS:
Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy (1x60)
Sun., Sept. 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Leonardo was found in Montana almost fully intact, with 90 per cent of his body covered in skin. We even know what he ate for his last meal. But what makes this discovery so impressive? “Leonardo” is a 77 million year-old dinosaur – and what he reveals about his life and death is undeniably one of the most captivating cold cases of all time. Discovered in 2000 by a team of amateur paleontologists exploring Malta, Montana, Leonardo – named for graffiti found near his burial site – is the first dinosaur mummy ever found with intact digestive tract contents. With this once-in-a-lifetime finding, scientists now have more than just bones to fully reconstruct how dinosaurs looked and lived. From the cause of death to Leonardo’s last meal, scientific tests provide far more detail than the team of scientists ever expected. Skin impressions and actual fossilized samples of the digested food still inside the viscera, plus skin and joints, allow the team to create the first reconstruction of a giant dinosaur, accurate both inside and out.
The Body Machine (1x120)
Sun., Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. ET
The Body Machine is a landmark special on the human body that shows just how much, how many, how large, how strong, how fast – and just how truly amazing – the human body really is. Utilizing impressive large-scale real-life stunts, CGI and strong character stories, this special makes the staggering scale of the inner workings of the body tangible. See how far our blood travels in just one day – an astounding 19, 000 km – or equivalent to a roundtrip from Quebec City to Buenos Aires. See all the cranial fluid the human body produces in a lifetime laid out in front of you – all 26,280 pint glasses worth! And in just one day, you will take 23,000 breaths – enough air to fill 7,714 helium balloons – this and other facts presented throughout The Body Machine will leave viewers breathless!
Journey to the Edge of the Universe (1x90)
December 2008
Journey to the Edge of the Universe is the ultimate cosmic journey, taking viewers from Planet Earth right to the edge of the universe. In one single, epic camera move, this stunning special begins from the perspective two people staring at the night sky, then travels outward, accelerating past the Moon and through the Solar system and beyond into deep space. On this awe-inspiring voyage, encounter the most beautiful, powerful and mysterious phenomena in the Cosmos, from pulsars to supermassive black holes, from star nurseries, to comets and quasars. On this unique HD journey, see how the Universe is both friend and foe – a place of nightmarish violence that has both the power to create life and destroy it in a matter of seconds. Travelling through space, unlock the mysteries of the Universe that have puzzled humanity for centuries. The special wraps with a dramatic ending that reveals how the Universe itself began in the ultimate act of creative violence – the Big Bang.
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (1x120)
TBD
Twenty years after he wrote A Brief History of Time, Professor Stephen Hawking examines how far our understanding of the Universe has developed since and introduces scientific ideas that hadn’t even been imagined two decades ago. Alongside some of the world’s leading scientists, he explains the mysteries of physics in a fresh and accessible way, addressing some of the fundamental questions about our existence: How did the Universe begin? How will it end? What was there before it? The series charts Hawking’s lifelong quest for a “Theory of Everything” that could explain anything from vast supernovae, black holes and dark matter, to the infinitesimally small sub-atomic world. It is a “holy grail” search that continues to this day.
Encounters at the End of the World (1x120)
TBD
There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together in unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. Critically-acclaimed director Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), accompanied only by his cameraman, traveled to Antarctica to capture the rugged beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under.
Note: Please visit Discovery Channel's page on falltvpreview.com for more information about this channel's fall schedule.
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