New on Discovery in June, 2008:
NEW SHOWS
Mega-Carrier: The Construction of the USS George H W BushPremiered: Tuesday, 3 June 2008 at 21h00.
TVSA's Mega-Carrier Mini-Site.
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Ultimate Survival 2Premiere date: Monday, 16 June 2008 at 21h00
Daredevil Bear Grylls returns for a second season of seeking out extreme survival challenges in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
He'll experience hair-raising drops into the infamous Viper Pits on the Camino Reale in Panama, disembowelling a dead camel to seek food and shelter in the Sahara, attempting to survive the extreme cold of Siberia and even facing his biggest fears as he fights his way out of crevasses in Patagonia.
Along the way there are plenty of gut-wrenching moments as he snacks on everything from a scorpion to a vine snake. Bear builds on his survival knowledge as he encounters indigenous experts from the Berbers in the Sahara to tribesmen with an encyclopaedic knowledge of just what it takes to survive in such harsh environments.
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Dirty Jobs with Peter SchmeichelPremiere date: Friday, 27 June 2008 at 20h00
Legendary goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel is Discovery Channel’s ever-willing guide around Europe’s less well-known occupations and industries in this new series of Dirty Jobs.
Each week Peter discovers a new continent in the company of taxidermists, pig farmers, sewage cleaners, rubbish tip scroungers and eel farmers.
SPECIALS
Man Made Marvels: China's National TheatrePremiere date: Tuesday, 24 June 2008 at 21h00
In 1998, China announced an international design competition, inviting the world’s leading architects to design a national theatre: an iconic building that would stand in the centre of Beijing.
Architects from around the world vied for the prestigious project but it was French architect Paul Andreu who was announced the winner.
Man Made Marvels reveals the splendour of China’s first ever National Theatre. Andreu’s design is a stunning glass and titanium ellipsoid dome that appears to float on an artificial lake. Nicknamed ‘The Egg’, it will host opera, ballet and concerts. Yet the project hangs in the balance and problems arise almost immediately.
Zoning restrictions around the great historic architectural zone state that no building can be higher than the People’s Hall. Since they can’t build up, the constructors will have to build down; this involves digging the deepest foundations in Chinese history.
China's National Theatre is part of Discovery Channel's Man Made Marvels series.
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