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Sad news from Variety today, the next season of Mythbusters will be the last.
"'Mythbusters' is — and will always be — an incredibly important part of Discovery's history," said Rich Ross, group president of Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel. "Adam and Jamie are enormous talents who have brought learning and science to the forefront of this network, and their legacy will continue to live on over at Science Channel. The 'Mythbusters' library will be moving over to Discovery's sister network in 2016, where I know audiences new and old alike will be able to experience and learn with Adam and Jamie and the rest of the 'Mythbusters' family."
I guess we'll just have to try it at home now.
[Ed: Headline updated, show was not "canceled".]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2015, @05:22PM
"'Mythbusters' is — and will always be — an incredibly important part of Discovery's history," said Rich Ross, group president of Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel. "Adam and Jamie are enormous talents who have brought learning and science to the forefront of this network, and their legacy will continue to live on over at Science Channel. The 'Mythbusters' library will be moving over to Discovery's sister network in 2016, where I know audiences new and old alike will be able to experience and learn with Adam and Jamie and the rest of the 'Mythbusters' family."
- An incredibly important part of Discovery's history: But you're canceling it. So it can't be *that* important to you... Oh.... wait, you mean you'll keep doing re-runs until even my unborn grand-child has seen all episodes?
- "Adam and Jamie are enormous talents...[snip]": now you're stretching it a bit, friend
- "[snip...who have brought learning and science to the forefront of this network": no, they brought explosions, and that's it
- "their legacy will continue to live on over at Science Channel": let's reserve the word 'legacy' for things that actually make a difference in the world
- "where I know audiences new and old alike will be able to experience and learn with Adam and Jamie and the rest of the 'Mythbusters' family.": you mean the ones you unsacremoniously fired?
Meh... This show lost it's "sciency-ness" after season 1 and lost any remaining appeal when they got rid of Kari Byron (also known as "token goodlooking girl among 'science people' ")
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2015, @06:10PM
Mythbusters is about the only sciency show I can get the kids to watch. Sure it was never perfect but it was head and shoulders above most of the other "reality tv" you can find on the former educational channels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 23 2015, @06:15PM
Well isn't that how television -- and more generally supply and demand -- works? If it's a good show and if the show is still available to watch and if you have nothing better to watch, you'll watch. If you like it you might buy the DVD boxed set. They simply aren't making new ones and aren't stuffing the old ones down your throat.
They are enormous talents... but not as television TV show hosts. They where Special Effects artists and engineers long before they became show hosts.
As they so often say, who doesn't want to see an explosion for real if you had the opportunity? But that admittedly distracting addition was more driven by the marketing for the show not Adam and Jaime. What they have done for learning and science isn't teaching hard fact, but rather the tenants of the scientific method. How to analyze and approach a problem and come up with solutions that are workable and as safe as possible. Explosions and cars flying and beret wearing walrii where simply bait.
Does anyone know the truth of what went on in what is a private business deal between those actors and the studio? I doubt it. Isn't it possible that no one wanted to continue on and they only managed to get Adam and Jaime to continue for one more season to give the show a good send-off rather than "oh well most of the cast members have walked out so MB is on indefinite hiatus."
The word legacy is a stretch here.
The TFA comes from Vanity, isn't it their job to smooch up to these studios and make their increasingly mediocre wares look better than perhaps they really are? Why get all bent out of shape? It is true, just a liiittle over-exaggerated. Everyone is guilty of that from time to time.
(Score: 1) by SDRefugee on Friday October 23 2015, @09:52PM
Kinda like Penny in Big Bang Theory.. the token hawt female among a bunch of geeks, one of which can't even *speak* to a girl without alcoholic "lubrication"....
America should be proud of Edward Snowden, the hero, whether they know it or not..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @03:11AM
and then they added the other 2