Mythbusters, mark II.
They stopped making it earlier this year, but for the best part of 13 years, audiences around the world were captivated by Mythbusters, a show which pretty much did exactly what it said on the tin.
Although the quality rarely dipped, it wasn’t something you had to tune into religiously to appreciate as every week there were new myths that required busting or validating.
It could be something as simple, for example, as the five-second rule or, on the other hand, something as spectacular as a recreation of the final scene in Breaking Bad.
Mythbusters may be gone in its original form, but the producers of the show and three of the presenting team – Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara – are returning for a new show called the White Rabbit Project, which will air on Netflix next month.
The show’s blurb says that Byron, Belleci and Imahara will “head down the rabbit hole to investigate weird and wonderful events from pop culture, science and history”.
“Under their microscope are topics as diverse as jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists and crazy World War II weapons,” it adds.
“In each episode the hosts immerse themselves in experiments, builds and tests as they sleuth the truth behind these and other well-Googled themes.”
So, basically Mythbusters then. Sounds good to us.
White Rabbit Project is available on Netflix from December 9.
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