New on
Discovery in October, 2008:
NEW SHOWS
SurvivormanPremiere date: Thursday, 16 October at 17h30
Survivorman fuses the world of remote survival with the drama of surviving. Expert guide and film-maker Les Stroud puts his own skills to the ultimate test by heading deep into the wild.
Filmed in HD, each episode explores one of the most remote and challenging places on Earth including the Namib Desert, the Canadian Arctic, the Peruvian Jungle, the Boreal Forest and the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
Can Les survive by relying purely on his wits and tenacity?
Mythbusters 6Premiere date: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 at 22h00
Can sneezing with your eyes open make your eyeballs pop out? Could cigarette butts be a lethal weapon when fired from a gun? Will a bull let loose in a china shop break all the china? Is it possible to breathe under water using air from a car tyre?
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman return to debunk, decode and demystify pop culture's most baffling urban myths and legends for a sixth season.
Using modern day science, they put each myth to the Mythbusters test using the widely known, the obscure, the potentially lifesaving and the seemingly trivial to separate lies from the truth.
New to the season: Adam and Jamie host the first Viewer's Special, with the team testing selected myths from the Mythbusters fan site.
Discovery Project EarthPremiere date: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 at 21h00
Leading scientists meet three uncompromising visionaries to put ambitious geo-engineering ideas for tackling global climate change to the test.
Working with the scientists on these innovative experiments is the Project Earth task
force, conistenting of: Jennifer Languell, the tough talking
eco-house-building engineer; Basil Singer, the scientific boy wonder; and finally, the businessman who can fund the impossible, venture capitalist Kevin O'Leary.
From covering acres of Greenland glaciers in protective blankets to stop it from melting, constructing space rockets to send tiny reflective lenses into orbit, or plantin thousands of saplings via a mass aerial drop to reforest barren areas,
these are experiments on an epic scale.
Each one will push the boundaries of science and technology, but will they produce groundbreaking environmental results?
SPECIALS
Mythbusters: Shark Special
On: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 at 22h00
The Mythbusters crew attempt to bust some well-known shark myths. Using their signature sci-tech style of explosive experimentation, the Mythbusters hit the deep blue from California to the Bahamas to investigate these common myths about sharks.
Are sharks really repelled by magnets? Do dogs attract sharks? Do the vibrations caused by a flapping injured fish attract sharks? And does chilli powder repel sharks?