Top 20 Most Shocking is an American countdown television series produced by Bruce Nash Entertainment in which each episode includes 20 videos that lead up to the best of the best, from practical jokes gone very wrong to outrageous after-hours misadventures.
The series premiered in the USA on truTV on 3 October, 2009.
Top 20 Most Shocking premiered in South Africa on TopTV's Fox Entertainment channel on Monday 18 October 2010, at 21h00. See "Seasons" below for seasonal broadcast dates and times.
Season 5 premiered on Fox Entertainment on Monday 2 July 2012, at 21h00. New episodes broadcast weekly. There are 13 episodes in the fifth season.
Synopsis
Of all the extreme college pranks, harrowing escapes from death, and brainless stunts captured on video, which one is the very best? Top 20 Most Shocking sets out to answer that question.
Building on the success of Most Shocking, this new series ramps up the stakes, introducing a weekly countdown of the 20 best, all new, caught-on-tape moments that will leave no jaw un-dropped.
From Women Out of Control to Whackos at the Wheel, each hour-long episode of Top 20 Most Shocking showcases a unique theme, with more than 20 clips combined with dramatic firsthand accounts, all working their way to claim the top spot in the countdown.
The premiere episode spotlights Good Times Gone Bad, with subsequent episodes featuring such crowd-pleasing themes as Practical Jokers Gone Wild, Brainless Blunders and Hotheads from Hell.
Top 20 Most Shocking is the third series created by Bruce Nash Entertainment for truTV, following Most Shocking, which features unbelievable, real-life crime footage from around the globe, and Most Daring, a full hour of compelling eyewitness narratives by ordinary people facing extraordinary danger.
Bruce Nash, Debra Weeks, Andrew Jebb and Matt Harris serve as executive producers on all three shows. For truTV, Robyn Hutt is executive in charge of production, and Diane Best is executive producer.
Seasons
Series exclusive to Fox Entertainment
Season 1 (13 episodes)
Premiere: 18 October 2010 | Finale: 10 January 2011 | Mondays, 21h00
Season 2 (13 episodes)
Premiere: 13 July 2011 | Finale: 5 October 2011 | Wednesdays, 20h15
Season 3 (13 episodes)
Premiere: 19 December 2011 | Finale: 19 March 2012 | Mondays, 20h15
Season 4 (13 episodes)
Premiere: 26 March 2012 | Finale: 18 June 2012 | Mondays, 20h15
Season 5 (13 episodes)
Premiere: 2 July 2012 | Finale: 24 September 2012 | Mondays, 21h00