Show Tidbits |
In 2006, the British Broadcasting Corporation began transmitting Mythbusters on BBC 2 edited to 30 minute run-times. |
Kari, who joined the team in season 2, can be seen in Jamie's shop working on a computer in the first episode. |
Jamie Hyneman and Grant Imahara are both former competitors in "Battle Bots" |
Series creator/producer Peter Rees originally pitched the show to all the Australian TV networks but all of them turned him down. Rees then pitched the show to the Discovery Channel which picked it up. |
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have over 30 years experience doing special effects for various movies tv shows and commercials |
Adam and Jamie recently got cameo rolls in an episode of CSI *8x15 theory of everything* Although all they did was stand behind glass with clipboards and watch and experiment CSI Nick Stokes was preforming it's clearly them |
Also recently some of the Mythbusters took part in a Young Scientist special on another channel It was sort of a build off and while they were there it was not an official Mythbusters episode |
In December 2011, A mythbusters crew shot a cannonball out of the alemeda test range thru a house after a few unfortunate bounces. No one was hurt. |