How Do They Do It? | |
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Starring | Chris Broyles Robert Llewellyn Dominic Frisby Rupert Degas Iain Lee |
Country of origin | Canada United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Richard Stansfield Kelly Hood (line) |
Running time | 60/30 minutes |
Production company | Wag TV |
Original release | |
Network | Discovery Channel Science Channel (United States) Discovery Channel (United Kingdom) |
Release | 6 May 2006 – present |
How Do They Do It? is a television series produced by Wag TV for Discovery Channel. Each programme explores how 2 or 3 ordinary objects are made and used. The show's slogan is "Behind the ordinary is the extraordinary." The series is broadcast throughout the world on various Discovery-owned networks including:
Series 1 and 2, which were co-produced with Rocket Surgery Productions, were narrated by Rupert Degas; series 3 and 4 were narrated by Iain Lee; and series 5 and 6 were narrated by Dominic Frisby. In 2008, the UK's Channel 5 began airing the series, presented by Robert Llewellyn. This version was released on DVD in the UK in May 2010. [1]
In the United States, the series airs on the Science Channel and is narrated by Chris Broyles.
This programme is similar to the popular Canadian-produced documentary programme, How It's Made , also broadcast on Discovery Channel networks.
Episodes in the first season aired with 60-minute runtimes (including commercials). [2]
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Recycling, Plasma TV, Fireworks, Railroad tracks, Ink" | May 6, 2006 |
2 | "Salt Mines, Sneakers, Ships, Watches, Wind Farms" | May 13, 2006 |
3 | "Tires, Excavators, Newspapers, Ports, Contact Lenses" | May 27, 2006 |
4 | "Internet Cable, Crane (machine), Pencils, Water, Toothpaste" | June 3, 2006 |
5 | "Glass, Golf Balls, Zippers, Coke Cans, Tire changer" | June 10, 2006 |
6 | "Concrete, Cell Phones, Lightbulbs, Steel, Traffic" | June 17, 2006 |
Episodes in the second season aired with 30-minute runtimes (including commercials). [3]
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Diamond Mine, Skyscraper, Car Crusher" | June 24, 2006 |
2 | "Air-to-Air Refuelling, Alpine skiing Slopes, Car Production" | June 24, 2006 |
3 | "Ice Breaker, Money, Bowling Alleys" | July 8, 2006 |
4 | "Mining Trucks, IKEA, Air Traffic" | July 8, 2006 |
5 | "Logging, Baggage, Light Show" | July 15, 2006 |
6 | "Gold, Golf Clubs, Escalators" | July 15, 2006 |
7 | "Tunneling, Tea, Mountain Bikes" | July 22, 2006 |
8 | "Combines, Lifeboats, Chocolate" | July 22, 2006 |
9 | "Airbus, Fire Engines, Ketchup" | July 29, 2006 |
10 | "Bicycle helmet, Rubber, Wave Piercing" | July 29, 2006 |
11 | "Airbags, Ice Rinks, Mattresses" | August 12, 2006 |
12 | "Armored Cars, Elevators, Cheese" | August 12, 2006 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Phoenix Stadium, La Trade Tower, Surfing" | February 21, 2007 |
2 | "Space Shuttle, Roller Coaster, Pool table" | February 21, 2007 |
3 | "Empire State Building, Extracting Copper, Making a Car" | February 28, 2007 |
4 | "Fighter Jet, Baseball, Sports Car" | February 28, 2007 |
5 | "Rescue Services, Falkirk Wheel, Parachutists" | March 7, 2007 |
6 | "Submarine, Moving Earth, Beer Car" | March 7, 2007 |
7 | "Racing Drivers, Bank vaults, Telling Time" | March 14, 2007 |
8 | "Cruise Liner, White Wash, Aircon" | March 14, 2007 |
9 | "Water Display, Space Shuttle, Suspension Bridge" | March 21, 2007 |
10 | "Vehicles, Football, Potash Mine" | March 21, 2007 |
11 | "Helicopter, Luxury Yachts, Highway Patrol" | March 28, 2007 |
12 | "Buildings, Transmission tower, Balloon Makers" | March 28, 2007 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Bulletproof vests, Robots, Formation skydiving" | April 4, 2007 |
2 | "Family Car, Letter, Titanium" | April 4, 2007 |
3 | "Forest fires, Car exhaust, Telescopes" | April 11, 2007 |
4 | "Spacesuit, Neon signs, Biggest Ships" | April 11, 2007 |
5 | "Nuclear Submarine, Crash test dummy, Fruit and Veg" | April 18, 2007 |
6 | "Surface mine, Air boats, Automated storage and retrieval system [6] [7] " | April 18, 2007 |
7 | "Oil rigs, VWs, Black Box" | April 25, 2007 |
8 | "Jet Engine, Weapons, Hurricanes from Space" | April 25, 2007 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Panama Canal, Waste disposal" | March 3, 2008 |
2 | "World's Strongest Knife, Diamonds, Bricks" | March 4, 2008 |
3 | "Electricity, Floating crane" | March 5, 2008 |
4 | "Drinking water, Television screen, Family Cars" | March 6, 2008 |
5 | "Overnight Parcel Delivery, Coal Mining" | March 7, 2008 |
6 | "Tetra Pak, Pre-Fab Houses, Ambulances" | March 10, 2008 |
7 | "Weather Forecasting, Hovercraft" | March 11, 2008 |
8 | "Freeways, Mint (facility) Coins" | March 12, 2008 |
9 | "Container Ship Estelle Maersk, Peterbilt Trucks" | March 13, 2008 |
10 | "Windshield wipers, Space Shuttle, Binoculars" | March 14, 2008 |
11 | "Transporting Oil Rigs, Electric razors" | March 17, 2008 |
12 | "Halogen light bulb, Muffler, Locks" | March 18, 2008 |
13 | "Airbus, Chainsaws" | March 19, 2008 |
14 | "Hydroelectric dam, Silicon chips" | March 20, 2008 |
15 | "Petrol, Swiss army knife" | March 25, 2008 |
16 | "Carpets, Lego" | March 26, 2008 |
17 | "Railways, Ballpoint pen" | March 27, 2008 |
18 | "Mirrors, Wrapping" | March 28, 2008 |
19 | "Jeans, Wine glasses" | March 31, 2008 |
20 | "GPS, Aluminium foil" | April 1, 2008 |
# | Features | Date | |
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1 | "Artificial reefs, Earthquake-proof Buildings, Cars on Rocket Fuel" | August 10, 2009 | |
2 | "Blue Angels Airshows, Indoor Ski Slope, Sushi" | August 11, 2009 | |
3 | "Produce Power from Waste, Customize Supercars, Super Steel Swords" | August 12, 2009 | |
4 | "Cowboys Hats, Deep Sea Dive, Inflight Catering" | August 13, 2009 | |
5 | "De-Ice Planes, Glossy Magazines, Electric Sports Car" | August 14, 2009 | |
6 | "Satellites, Ship Maintenance, Making stretched limos" | August 17, 2009 | |
7 | "Mega Hotels, Lasers, Desert Golf." | August 18, 2009 | |
How services are provided at one of the world's largest casinos and a look at how it is possible to build a golf course in the desert | |||
8 | "Orange Juice, Bending Glass, Solid Rock" | August 19, 2009 | |
9 | "Jumbo Garage, Nuclear Power, Pianos" | August 20, 2009 | |
10 | "G Suits, Smart Grid, Vehicle Slowdown" | August 21, 2009 | |
11 | "Make Assembly Line Robots, Seal Wine Bottles, Desalinate Sea Water" | August 24, 2009 | |
12 | "Design airplane parachutes, Create solar power, Make photochromic lenses" | August 25, 2009 | |
13 | "Blast Through Rock, Map Earth, Provide Flowers Year-Round" | August 26, 2009 | |
14 | "Work in 600-degree Heat, Make Champagne, Expand Ports" | August 27, 2009 | |
15 | "Manufacturing propellers, Intelligent cars, Turning metal into magnets" | August 28, 2009 | |
16 | "Large aquarium, Making sapphire, Bentlys" | August 31, 2009 | |
17 | "Traffic Control Systems, Mining Oil, Film Reconstruction." | September 1, 2009 | |
18 | "Batteries, Building an artificial island, Creating perfumes" | September 2, 2009 | |
19 | "Stainless steel, Making motorbikes, Making paper" | September 3, 2009 | |
20 | "Military helicopters, Metro systems, Engineering artificial reefs" | September 4, 2009 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Peanut Butter; Breaking Point (Household Device Safety Testing)" | September 5, 2010 |
2 | "Irish Stout; Silk; Canned Soup" | September 5, 2010 |
3 | "Fire Extinguishers; Cruise Ships" | September 12, 2010 |
4 | "Diggers; A Taste of the Orient (Soy Sauce); Into the Sky (Willis Tower, Chicago)" | September 19, 2010 |
5 | "Smooth as Marble; Hot Stuff/Umbrellas" | September 26, 2010 |
6 | "Soft as Sponge; The Knowledge" | October 10, 2010 |
7 | "Money Movers; Catch of the Day; Amazing Grace" | October 17, 2010 |
8 | TBA | October 24, 2010 |
9 | "Crash Testing; Books etc; Margarine" | October 31, 2010 |
10 | TBA | November 7, 2010 |
11 | TBA | November 14, 2010 |
12 | TBA | November 21, 2010 |
13 | "Car Batteries; Chocolate; Toothbrushes" | December 12, 2010 |
14 | TBA | August 2010 |
15 | "Decaf coffee; Smoked salmon; Water jets [11] [12] " | January 2, 2010 |
16 | TBA | January 16, 2010 |
17 | TBA | September 2010 |
18 | TBA | November 29, 2010 |
19 | TBA | February 6, 2010 |
20 | TBA | December 20, 2010 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Pufferfish, Train hubs, Kilts" | September 5, 2011 |
2 | TBA | September 5, 2011 |
3 | TBA | September 12, 2011 |
4 | TBA | September 19, 2011 |
5 | TBA | September 26, 2011 |
6 | TBA | October 10, 2011 |
7 | TBA | October 17, 2011 |
8 | TBA | October 24, 2011 |
9 | TBA | October 31, 2011 |
10 | TBA | November 7, 2011 |
11 | TBA | November 14, 2011 |
12 | TBA | November 21, 2011 |
13 | TBA | December 12, 2011 |
14 | TBA | August 2011 |
15 | TBA | January 2, 2011 |
16 | TBA | January 16, 2011 |
17 | TBA | September 2011 |
18 | TBA | November 29, 2011 |
19 | TBA | February 6, 2011 |
20 | TBA | December 20, 2011 |
# | Features | Date |
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2 | "Leatherman; Formula 1; Glassware" | TBA |
3 | "(Mexican Panama) Hats; World's Longest Road Tunnel (Norway); Catching Pythons in Florida" | TBA |
4 | "Guacamole; Swamp Buggy; Scissors" | TBA |
5 | "Tennessee Whiskey; Nightvision; Saunas" | TBA |
6 | "World in Miniature (working airport); Hurricane Test Center; Growing rhubarb in the dark" | TBA |
7 | "Fighter Plane; Trappist Beers; SUV" | TBA |
8 | "Leather Footballs; Mussels; Helmet" | TBA |
9 | "Almonds; Snowblower; Detergents" | TBA |
10 | "Suspension Bridge; Crossbows; Stock Checking" | TBA |
11 | "Scania Trucks; Miracle Forensics; Gouda" | TBA |
12 | "Vanilla; Anchors; Lighters" | TBA |
13 | "(Classical) Guitars; Rope Access; Fast Tractor" | TBA |
14 | "Liferafts; Mind Control; Stamps" | TBA |
15 | "Tequila; Steam-Powered Megacity; Soft Ice-Cream" | TBA |
16 | "Stuntmen; Seabreacher; Amber" | TBA |
17 | "Tennis Balls; Surround Sound; Steak" | TBA |
18 | "Rayon; Snuff; Cola" | TBA |
19 | "The Social Network; Zubrowka; Aerial Cable Cars" | TBA |
20 | "Skydiving Suits; Surstromming; Hemp-Crete" | TBA |
21 | "Chewing Gum; Fish Hooks; Legoland" | TBA |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | TBA | September 5, 2012 |
2 | TBA | September 5, 2012 |
3 | TBA | September 12, 2012 |
4 | TBA | September 19, 2012 |
5 | TBA | September 26, 2012 |
6 | TBA | October 10, 2012 |
7 | TBA | October 17, 2012 |
8 | "Harp Strings, Roof Windows, Belgian Waffles" | October 24, 2012 |
9 | TBA | October 31, 2012 |
10 | TBA | November 7, 2012 |
11 | TBA | November 14, 2012 |
12 | TBA | November 21, 2012 |
13 | TBA | December 12, 2012 |
14 | "High Rise Construction, Dr Marten Boots, Cooking Pans" | August 2012 |
15 | TBA | January 2, 2012 |
16 | TBA | January 16, 2012 |
17 | "Mohair, Quadskis, The Harp" | September 2012 |
18 | "Rayon, Snuff, Cola" | November 29, 2012 |
19 | TBA | February 6, 2012 |
20 | "Chewing Gum, Fish Hooks, Legoland" | December 20, 2012 |
# | Features | Date | |
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1 | "Logging, Tiles & Jaffa Cakes" | May 7, 2015 | |
2 | "Heavy Lift Plane, Hunting Boots, Bananas" | May 14, 2015 | |
Assembling an advanced plane; making warm, waterproof boots. Also: how they get bananas just ripe. | |||
3 | "Monorail, Royal Copenhagen Porcelain & New York Cupcakes" | May 21, 2015 | |
4 | "Wine, Gore-Tex Extreme Weather Clothing" | May 28, 2015 | |
5 | "Screws, Marmalade & Printed Dresses" | June 4, 2015 | |
6 | "Road Rollers, Canned Bread & Vertu Phones" | June 11, 2015 | |
7 | "Tinned Grapefruit, Snowmaking and Conveyor Belts" | June 18, 2015 | |
8 | "Harp Strings, Roof Windows & Belgian waffle" | July 2, 2015 | |
9 | "AGA cooker, Incense Sticks and Jenever" | July 9, 2015 | |
10 | "Robo-farm, Log Stacker & Piano Moving" | July 23, 2015 | |
11 | "Bamboo scaffolding & Fireworks" | July 30, 2015 | |
12 | "Espadrille, Prefabricated Houses and Underground Storage" | July 6, 2015 | |
13 | "Macadamia Nuts, Tap Water & Crowd control barrier" | August 13, 2015 | |
14 | "High Rise Construction, Dr. Martens Boots & Cookware and bakeware" | August 20, 2015 | |
15 | "Sitar, Biltong & Bulldozers" | August 27, 2015 | |
16 | "Fedoras, Cement & Frozen Peas" | September 3, 2015 | |
17 | "Mohair, Gibbs Quadski and the Harp" | September 10, 2015 | |
18 | "Rooibos, Baggage handling system & Hairbrushes" | September 17, 2015 | |
19 | "Credit Cards, Tiffin and Boat Lift" | September 24, 2015 | |
20 | "Power Tunnel, Pizza oven and Wendy house" | October 1, 2015 |
# | Features | Date | |
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1 | "Drinks Cans, Cuckoo Clocks, and Paddle Boardss" | August 8, 2016 | |
How drinks cans are made; how cuckoo clocks are made and how paddle boards are crafted. | |||
2 | "Longboards, Lemonade, and Forklifts" | August 15, 2016 | |
How longboards are made; how lemons are turned into lemonade; and how forklifts are built. | |||
3 | "Coffee, Bricks, Lava Lamps, and Diamonds" | August 22, 2016 | |
How coffee is roasted; how bricks are built; how lava lamps are made; and how diamonds are mined from an extinct volcano. | |||
4 | "Cameras, Big Airbags, and Jelly Beans" | August 29, 2016 | |
How the world's sharpest photos are taken; what it takes to create an airbag that can catch a falling car; and how jelly beans are made. | |||
5 | "Caravans, Tuning forks, Ice resurfacers, and Festival of Lights" | September 5, 2016 | |
Included: caravans; tuning forks; ice resurfacers; and Festival of Lights. | |||
6 | "Vinyl Records, Bumper Cars, and Tiger Balm" | September 12, 2016 | |
Vinyl records, bumper cars and tiger balm are featured. | |||
7 | "Non-alcoholic Beer, Tomcars, Escalators, and Lie detectors" | September 19, 2016 | |
How non-alcoholic beer, Tomcars, escalators and lie detectors are made. | |||
8 | "Axes, Messenger bags, and Fast-Rescue Boats" | October 3, 2016 | |
How axes, messenger bags and fast-rescue boats are made. | |||
9 | "Wensleydale Cheese, Paintbrushes, Eucalyptus Oil, and Plastic Wrap" | October 10, 2016 | |
How Wensleydale cheese, paintbrushes, eucalyptus oil and plastic wrap are made. | |||
10 | "Tesla Model S, horse tail fabrics & Automated pool cleaner" | October 17, 2016 | |
Tesla Model S, horse tail fabrics, clean the largest swimming pools | |||
11 | "Pianos, Electronic impact drills, Gears and Aircraft chairs" | November 6, 2016 | |
12 | "Electric Toothbrushes, Stamps, and Motorcycle" | November 6, 2016 | |
13 | "Electronic door locks, Fiat Sedici E, and Deli Meats" | November 13, 2016 | |
14 | "Cars Machines, Slot Machines, Pinball Machines, and Boomerangs" | November 13, 2016 | |
15 | "Bicycles, Racing Cars, Fire Extinguishers, and Banjos" | November 20, 2016 | |
16 | "Kitchen shears, Airlines, Asphalt Tinola, and Power Tunnel" | November 20, 2016 | |
17 | "Watches, Icons, and Luxury cars" | November 27, 2016 | |
18 | "Paper flowers, Formula 1, MotoGP, and NASCAR" | November 27, 2016 | |
19 | "Violins, Einesk, and Barber chairs" | December 4, 2016 | |
20 | "Laminate, Racing Atletism, Motor Diesel, and Drums" | December 4, 2016 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Satellites, Robotic medication dispensers, Incense cones, Skoda Fabia K." | August 28, 2017 |
2 | "Mouth fish phines, Dolls, Tattoos & Motorcycle blocks" | September 26, 2017 |
3 | "FLONs, Change Machines, Car machines, and Sugar" | October 6, 2017 |
4 | "Iveco Trucks, Diesel Filters, and Walking Canes" | October 23, 2017 |
5 | "Zaccer, Road Cases, Candy canes and Rally cars" | October 23, 2017 |
6 | "Drinking[ clarification needed ], DAF Trucks, Luxury Watches and Nail clippers" | October 28, 2017 |
7 | "Asphalt Ringier, Uranium, Macaroons, and Pills" | November 9, 2017 |
8 | "Electric Sports, Sushi, Soy Sauce, and Detergents" | November 27, 2017 |
9 | "MAN Trucks, Oil, Gin and KIA R Electric" | November 29, 2017 |
10 | "Paper fans, Asphalt power[ clarification needed ], Tea, and Bassoons" | December 9, 2017 |
11 | "SEK, Lime chairs, Diesel blocks, and chandeliers" | December 12, 2017 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | TBA | TBA |
2 | TBA | TBA |
3 | TBA | TBA |
4 | TBA | TBA |
5 | TBA | TBA |
6 | TBA | TBA |
7 | "Bufori cars, whistle, paprika" | TBA |
8 | "Pile driver, cricket bat, hand fan" | TBA |
9 | TBA | TBA |
10 | TBA | TBA |
11 | TBA | TBA |
Episodes 60 minutes long taken the best from series 3 and 4
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Fighter Jet, Moving Earth, Telescopes, Black Box, Space Shuttle" | September 3, 2007 |
2 | "Extracting Copper, Empire State Building, Nuclear Sub, Rescue Services, Biggest Ships" | September 4, 2007 |
Each episode is 30 minutes long and airs on terrestrial UK channel five. Each programme features 2 items from the original series with 1 new item filmed with presenter Robert Llewellyn. Llewellyn also presents links in between the original items.
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Excavators, London's sewers, Tyres" | January 10, 2008 |
2 | "Salt mine, hovercraft, training shoes" | January 17, 2008 |
3 | "Lightbulbs, demolition with explosives, giant cranes" | January 24, 2008 |
4 | "Cold War Military Recycling, the perfect Martini, plasma TVs" | January 31, 2008 |
5 | "Fibre Optics, Movements of Goods, zips" | February 4, 2008 |
6 | "Fireworks, Limestone, Rail Tracks" | February 11, 2008 |
7 | "Pencils, Pilot a Cargo Ship, Golfballs" | February 18, 2008 |
8 | "Thames Barrier, Newspaper Recycling, Glassmaking" | February 25, 2008 |
9 | "High Speed Racing Boat, Mobile Phones, Kugira" | March 3, 2008 |
10 | "Recycling, Self Winding Watches, Flat Pack Tanker" | March 10, 2008 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Mid-Air Refuelling, Skyscrapers, Tea" | March 17, 2008 |
2 | "Airbags, Internet Shopping, Car Recycling" | March 24, 2008 |
3 | "Ice Breaker Ships, Bells, Rubber Bands" | March 31, 2008 |
4 | "Diamond Mines, Electricity from Coal, Ten-Pin Bowling" | April 7, 2008 |
5 | "Wood Harvesting, Car Transportation, Confectionery" | April 14, 2008 |
6 | "Resilient Banknotes, Art of Falconry, Largest Lorry" | April 21, 2008 |
7 | "Armoured Car, Thames Cleaning, IKEA" | April 28, 2008 |
8 | "Combine Harvester, Satellites, Crash Helmet" | May 5, 2008 |
9 | "Gold Mining, Fire Resistant Materials, Skyscraper Lifts" | May 12, 2008 |
10 | "Airbus 380, Pit Stops under 10 Seconds, Tomato Ketchup" | May 19, 2008 |
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "High-Speed Catamarans, Stunt Planes, Contact Lenses" | October 9, 2008 |
2 | "Channel Tunnel, Escalators, Car Production" | October 16, 2008 |
3 | "Aluminium Cans, Steam Locomotive, Golf Clubs" | 23 October 2008 |
4 | "Tugboat, Water Drilling, Mountain Bike" | October 30, 2008 |
5 | "Lancashire Fire Service, Traffic-Management, Gigantic Tunneling Machine" | November 6, 2008 |
6 | "Marmite, Uncapsizable Lifeboat, Energy-Efficient Lightbulb" | November 13, 2008 |
7 | "Steel Works, Recycling Rubbish into Compost, Wensleydale Cheese" | November 20, 2008 |
8 | "Thames Water Ring, Wind Farm, Ice-Surfacing Machine" | November 27, 2008 |
9 | "Heathrow Luggage, Golf Course, Printer Cartridges" | December 4, 2008 |
10 | "American Fire Engines, Oil Refinery, Air Traffic Control" | December 11, 2008 |
Series 4 does not feature a specially shot item with presenter Robert Llewellyn; instead this is a reversion of the Discovery Channel series 5 with filmed links presented by Robert between the items. This series was not made available on Five's online video site.
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Panama Canal, Waste Disposal" | 16 August 2010 |
2 | "World's Strongest Knife, Diamonds, Bricks" | 23 August 2010 |
3 | "Live pylon repairs, Floating Crane" | 6 September 2010 |
4 | "Drinking Water, Television Screens, Luxury Cars" | 13 September 2010 |
5 | "Overnight Parcel Delivery, Coal Mining" | 20 September 2010 |
6 | "Tetra Pak, Pre-Fab Houses, Ambulances" | 27 September 2010 |
7 | "Sat Nav, Aluminium foil" | 4 October 2010 |
8 | "Carpet, Lego" | 11 October 2010 |
9 | "Container Ship Estelle Maersk, Peterbilt Trucks" | 18 October 2010 |
10 | "Windshield wipers, Space Shuttle, Binoculars" | 20 October 2010 |
11 | "Transporting Oil Rigs, Electric Razors" | 25 October 2010 |
12 | "Halogen light bulbs, Mufflers, Locks" | 27 October 2010 |
13 | "Airbus, Chainsaws" | 1 November 2010 |
14 | "Mirrors, Car Wrapping Labels" | 8 November 2010 |
15 | "Jeans, Wine Glasses" | 15 November 2010 |
16 | "Freeways Construction, Minting Coins" | 22 November 2010 |
17 | "Railways, Ballpoint pens" | 29 November 2010 |
18 | "Hydroelectric Dam, Silicon Chips" | 4 December 2010 |
19 | "Petrol, Swiss Army Knife" | 13 December 2010 |
20 | "Weather Forecasting, Hovercraft" | 20 December 2010 |
Series 5 does not feature a specially shot item with presenter Robert Llewellyn; instead this is a reversion of the Discovery Channel series 6 with filmed links presented by Llewellyn between the items. This series was not made available on 5's online video site.
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Blue Angels Airshows, Indoor Ski Slope, Sushi" | 4 January 2011 |
2 | "Artificial Reefs, Earthquake-proof Buildings, Cars on Rocket Fuel" | 10 January 2011 |
3 | "De-Ice Planes, Glossy Magazines, Electric Sports Car" | 17 January 2011 |
4 | "De-Make Assembly Line Robots, Seal Wine Bottles, Desalinatize Sea Water" | 20 January 2011 |
5 | "Design Airplane Parachutes, Create Solar Power, Make Photochromic Lenses" | 24 January 2011 |
6 | "Cowboys Hats, Deep Sea Dive, Inflight Catering" | 27 January 2011 |
7 | "Stainless steel, Making motorbikes, Making paper" | 31 January 2011 |
8 | "Blast Through Rock, Map Earth, Provide Flowers Year-Round" | 7 February 2011 |
9 | "Large aquarium, Making sapphire, Bentlys" | 14 February 2011 |
10 | "Satellites, Ship Maintenance, Making stretched limos" | 21 February 2011 |
11 | "Batteries, Building an artificial island, Creating perfumes" | 28 February 2011 |
12 | "Jumbo Garage, Nuclear Power, Pianos" | 7 March 2011 |
13 | "Produce Power from Waste, Customize Supercars, Super Steel Swords" | 14 March 2011 |
14 | "Manufacturing propellers, Intelligent cars, Turning metal into magnets" | 21 March 2011 |
15 | "Traffic Control Systems, Mining Oil, Film Reconstruction" | 28 March 2011 |
16 | "Mega Hotels, Lasers, Desert Golf" | 4 April 2011 |
17 | "Orange Juice, Bending Glass, Solid Rock" | 11 April 2011 |
18 | "Work in 600-degree Heat, Make Champagne, Expand Ports" | 18 April 2011 |
19 | "G Suits, Smart Grid, Vehicle Slowdown" | 9 May 2011 |
20 | "Military helicopters, Metro systems, Engineering artificial reefs" | 16 May 2011 |
Episodes in this group aired with 30-minute runtimes (including commercials). On hiatus as of February 2014.
# | Features | Date |
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1 | "Leather Pouf Ottomans, The Grand Canal (China), FlyBoards" | February 6, 2014 |
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Planet Earth is a 2006 British television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC and also the first to be filmed in high definition. The series received multiple awards, including four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and an award from the Royal Television Society.
Mayday—alternatively known as Air Crash Investigation(s) in Australia (Seven Network), New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom; alternatively known as Air Crash: Disaster Revealed on 5Select and some Asian and European countries; and additionally known as Air Emergency, Air Disasters, and Mayday: Air Disaster in the United States—is a Canadian documentary television program examining air crashes, near-crashes, hijackings, bombings, and other disasters. Mayday uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition, survivors, aviation experts, retired pilots, and crash investigators are interviewed, to explain how the emergencies came about, how they were investigated, and how they might have been prevented.
Meerkat Manor is a British television documentary produced by Oxford Scientific Films that premiered in September 2005. Originally broadcast on Animal Planet International for four seasons, until its cancellation in August 2008, the programme had a revival in 2021 with the programme now known as Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty in some countries. Using traditional animal documentary style footage along with narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled The Next Generation, saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing. In 2021, Nighy could be heard narrating the new series of Meerkat Manor when it was broadcast in the United States on BBC America and on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, making it the first time that both television markets have used the same voice over on the programme.
Untold Stories of the E.R. is an American docudrama television series which airs on TLC and Discovery Life.
A Haunting is an American paranormal drama anthology television series that depicts eyewitness accounts of alleged possession, exorcism, and ghostly encounters. The program features narrations, interviews, and dramatic re-enactments based on various accounts of alleged paranormal experiences at reportedly haunted and mostly residential locations.
Man vs. Wild, also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Ultimate Survival, Survival Game, or colloquially as simply Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel. In the United Kingdom, the series was originally shown on Channel 4, but the show's later seasons were broadcast on Discovery Channel U.K. The series was produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. The show was premiered on November 10, 2006, after airing a pilot episode titled "The Rockies" on March 10, 2006.
XLEAGUE.TV was a broadcast production unit owned by The New World Assembly Group, creating and providing content on its primary subject of video games. It covered competitive video gaming by providing coverage for organisers including the Electronic Sports League and United Kingdom eSports Association.
Frozen Planet is a 2011 British nature documentary series, co-produced by the BBC ZDF and The Open University. It was filmed by the BBC Natural History Unit. The production team, which includes executive producer Alastair Fothergill and series producer Vanessa Berlowitz, were previously responsible for the award-winning series The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006), and Frozen Planet is billed as a sequel of sorts. David Attenborough returns as narrator. It is distributed under licence by the BBC in other countries, Discovery Channel for North America, ZDF for Germany, Antena 3 for Spain and Skai TV for Greece.
Ghost Adventures is an American paranormal and reality television series that premiered on October 17, 2008, on the Travel Channel before moving to Discovery+ in 2021. An independent film of the same name originally aired on the Sci-Fi Channel on July 25, 2007. The program follows ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley, and Jay Wasley as they investigate locations that are reported to be haunted.
Dual Survival is a United States reality television series that airs on the Discovery Channel. The show features a pair of survival experts in predetermined survival scenarios while in challenging environments.
Naked and Afraid is an American reality series that airs on the Discovery Channel. Each episode chronicles the lives of two survivalists who meet for the first time naked and are given the task of surviving a stay in the wilderness for 21 days. Each survivalist is allowed to bring one helpful item, such as a machete or a fire starter. After they meet in the assigned location, the partners must build a shelter and find water and food.
Gogglebox is a British reality television series created by Stephen Lambert, Tania Alexander and Tim Harcourt, and broadcast on Channel 4. The series documents families and groups of friends around the United Kingdom who are filmed for their observations and reactions to the previous week's television from their own homes. The first series launched on 7 March 2013, the current twenty-third series has been airing since 16 February 2024. The show was narrated by Caroline Aherne from its launch until her death in July 2016, after which Craig Cash took over.
Derry Girls is a British teen sitcom set in Northern Ireland, created and written by Lisa McGee, that premiered on 4 January 2018 on Channel 4 and ran for three series. The channel's most successful comedy since Father Ted, the series was inspired by McGee's own experiences growing up in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the 1990s, during the final years of the Troubles. It stars Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nicola Coughlan, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, and Dylan Llewellyn as five teenagers living in mid-1990s Derry while attending Our Lady Immaculate College, a fictional girls' Catholic secondary school based on the real-life Thornhill College, where McGee herself studied. Produced by British production company Hat Trick Productions, Derry Girls was filmed in Northern Ireland, with most scenes shot on location in Derry and some in Belfast.