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The Taps (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) team is back with all-new paranormal investigations. Ghost Hunters Season 16 premieres this week on discovery+, with new hauntings weekly and special guests. Read on to find out when and how to watch the new season, plus what to expect from the Taps team this time around.

Cody DesBiens, Satori Hawes, Shari DeBenedetti, Jason Hawes, Chandler Riggs, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango prepare to investigate The Bastille on ‘Ghost Hunters.’ | discovery+ ‘Ghost Hunters’ Season 16 premieres on April 6

The new season of Ghost Hunters begins Thursday, April 6, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. A new episode will be available every week, with eight episodes in total. Each installment will be an hour long. Here are the release dates for this season, per a Warner Bros. Discovery press release:

April 6 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt: “Dead Man Walking” April 13 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt: “Trapped in Terror” April 20 at 9 p.

Taps is joined by Satori Hawes, Cody Desbiens and Chandler Riggs to investigate the Bastille. (Photo Credit: Travel Channel)

Travel Channel and discovery+’s Ghost Hunters welcomes The Walking Dead‘s Chandler Riggs to investigate The Bastille, an abandoned 125-year-old former Wild West jail, on the new season of the popular paranormal series. April and May 2023 episodes will find the Taps team – Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Shari DeBenedetti – traveling to haunted locations across the U.S., including Tennessee, Alabama, Washington, and California.

The upcoming season kicks off on April 6, 2023. New episodes will premiere on Thursdays at 9pm Et/Pt.

Travel Channel released the following details on the new season, including episode descriptions and air dates:

“Traversing the country, they’ll investigate chilling new locations and hauntings including eerie paranormal activity inside prisons, mines, mansions, and even the Hoover Dam. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, their proven methodology, and special guest investigators,...

As much as the incredibly long-running and fan-favorite Mythbusters series sought to entertain us through the power of science, viewers of the show can back me up when I say that the true stars were the hosts: Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, along with the “build team” surrounding them that would eventually be made up of Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, […]

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The gang is all back for more hijinks in Jackass Forever.

Directed Jeff Tremaine and produced by Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville, check out the brand new trailer.

Celebrating the joy of being back together with your best friends and a perfectly executed shot to the dingdong, the original jackass crew return for another round of hilarious, wildly absurd, and often dangerous displays of comedy with a little help from some exciting new cast. Johnny and the team push the envelope even further on October 22 in jackass forever.

Johnny Knoxville, Sean “Poopies” McInerny, Rachel Wolfson and Steve-o in jackass forever from Paramount Pictures and MTV Entertainment Studios.

In the May 2021 issue of GQ, Knoxville said of the 4th film:

It was Knoxville’s injuries, though, that made him doubt the possibility of a fourth Jacka** movie. That unlikeliness was further reinforced after Knoxville suffered four concussions on the set of the 2018 film,...

What if you combined Lord of the Flies with Mythbusters? You might get The Great Escapists, a new Amazon show that strands The Grand Tour‘s Richard Hammond and Mythbusters‘ Tory Belleci on a desert island and lets them run wild. The pair use their know-how to construct all sorts of wacky, potentially dangerous inventions, all in the name of survival – and […]

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Grant Imahara’s family and friends have formed a new educational foundation in his memory.

The Grant Imahara Steam Foundation, named for the late “Mythbusters” host, will work to inspire and empower underserved youth to become active in science, technology, engineering, art and math. The formation of the nonprofit was announced Friday on what would have been Imahara’s 50th birthday.

“There are many students, like my son Grant, who need the balance of the technical and the creative, and this is what Steam is all about,” said Carolyn Imahara, Grant’s mother and co-founder of the foundation. “I’m so proud of my son’s career, but I’m equally proud of the work he did mentoring students. He would be thrilled that we plan to continue this, plus much more, through The Grant Imahara Steam Foundation.”

Imahara died in July from a brain aneurysm. An electrical engineer, he...

“Mythbusters” and “White Rabbit Project” alums Tory Belleci and Kari Byron have paid tribute to their former colleague Grant Imahara, who died unexpectedly on July 13. Read their tributes below.

Tory Belleci

I met Grant Imahara back in 1997 when I stepped through the doors of the Ilm model shop. To say I was nervous would be an understatement. Then this young kid, at least that’s what I thought, with a bounce in his step, wearing thick glasses and a lab coat walked up, smiled and in a chipper voice said,”Hello!” and I immediately felt at ease. That was Grant, always welcoming, always helpful and always ready to solve a problem. We worked on a lot of projects at Lucas Films, but building models for Star Wars in our minds was the Holy Grail. We had made it. We’d achieved our lifelong geek dream. Little did we know that...

Discovery began running a “MythBusters” marathon this Friday, that will run through Saturday on the Discovery Channel, to pay tribute to the late “MythBusters” star Grant Imahara. The programming also features other shows that Imahara worked on, such as “Killer Robots” and “White Rabbit Project.”

The Friday portion of the two-day marathon concluded on the Discovery channel but will resume on the Science Channel at 3 p.m. Et Saturday. Episodes that will air on Saturday include “MythBusters” episodes “Shooting Fish in a Barrel,” “Dog Myths,” “Paper Armor,” and “Motorcycle Water Ski,” while the “Robogames 2011” episode of “Killer Robots” and “White Rabbit Project” episode “May G Force Be with You” will also be featured as part of the marathon.

Imahara passed away earlier in the week week from a brain aneurism at the age of 49. He was a long-time “MythBusters” co-host, BattleBots champion, and veteran engineer. Discovery released a statement shortly after Imahara’s death.

Discovery has announced that it will pay tribute to the late Grant Imahara with a marathon lineup of “Mythbusters” episodes.

A total of eight episodes will air across Discovery Channel and Science Channel on July 17 and 18. Imahara died from a brain aneurism earlier this week at the age of 49.

He served as co-host for more than 200 episodes of “Mythbusters,” beginning with season 3 in 2005, through 2014. The marathon’s episodes will feature some of Imahara’s favorite “MythBusters” moments, per Discovery, including a test to see whether an armor made of folded paper would hold up against an attack, and whether a hotel room shower curtain could be turned into a life-saving parachute.

The lineup also includes “Killer Robots: Robo Games 2011,” a one-hour special which saw Imahara serve as a tour guide through the International Robogames Competition, following everyday engineers and backyard brainiacs as they produced mechanized mayhem. An episode of the Netflix show “White Rabbit Project,...

Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer best known as part of the build team on the long-running Discovery series MythBusters, died Monday, The New York Times reports. He was 49.

A representative for Discovery confirmed Imahara’s death, with the cause believed to be a brain aneurysm. No other details were available.

On social media, Imahara’s MythBusters colleagues paid tribute to him. Adam Savage, one of the show’s co-hosts, wrote: “I’m at a loss. No words. I’ve been part of two big families with Grant Imahara over the last 22 years.

Grant Imahara, one of the hosts of the popular Discovery series MythBusters, has died.

He was 49 years old.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Imahara's cause of death is a brain aneurysm.

"We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant,” a Discovery representative said in a statement on Monday.

“He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.”

Imahara graduated from USC with a degree in electrical engineering, and went on to work for LucasFilm’s visual effects division.

He followed that up by joining MythBusters in 2005.

The hit reality show featured the hosts testing out a variety of rumors, urban legends and movie scenes to see if they could were fact or fiction.

Imahara was a part of the show’s secondary Build Team, and provided electrical and robotics expertise.

He exited Mythbusters in 2014 alongside Kari Byron and Tory Belleci.

Grant Imahara, one of the hosts of the popular Discovery series MythBusters, has died following a brain aneurysm, according to The Hollywood Reporter; he was 49 years old.

“We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant,” a Discovery representative said in a statement on Monday. “He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.”

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Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and former host on the Discovery Channel show “Mythbusters” has died at 49, a spokesperson for Discovery has confirmed to Variety.

“We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family,” the Discovery spokesperson said in a statement.

No other details about Imahara’s death were provided.

Imahara co-hosted more than 200 episodes of “Mythbusters,” beginning with season 3 in 2005 through 2014. He joined the show after an invitation from host Jamie Hyneman and was a part of the Build Team with Kari Byron and Tory Belleci. He replaced welder Scottie Chapman. Imahara was best known for making the robots and other electronics needed for the experiments on the hit show.

Fellow “Mythbusters” host Adam Savage paid tribute to Imahara on Twitter.

“I’m at a loss.

Grant Imahara, a former MythBusters and White Rabbit Project host who earlier worked as a modelmaker for Industrial Light + Magic, died Monday. He was 49. A Discovery spokesperson confirmed the news but did not provide details.

Imahara co-hosted more than 200 episodes of Discovery’s MythBusters starting with Season 3 in 2005 and remained with the show until 2014. He had made a handful of appearances since.

Former longtime Mythbusters host Adam Savage tweeted tonight: “I’m at a loss. No words. I’ve been part of two big families with Grant Imahara over the last 22 years. Grant was a truly brilliant engineer, artist and performer, but also just such a generous, easygoing, and gentle Person. Working with Grant was so much fun. I’ll miss my friend.”

I’m at a loss. No words. I’ve been part of two big families with Grant Imahara over the last 22 years. Grant was a truly brilliant engineer,...

Claire Hungate, the former CEO of Warner Bros Television Production UK, is going to help The Grand Tour star Richard Hammond get his production company motoring.

Hungate has joined Chimp Productions as a part-time advisor, helping assist directors Hammond, and his wife Amanda, in growing the business.

Chimp Productions already boasts two commissions: an Amazon show working titled The Great Escapists, which Hammond is co-presenting with Mythbusters star Tory Belleci, and Science Channel engineering show Richard Hammond’s Big.

Hammond launched the company to produce his projects away from Amazon’s The Grand Tour. His co-presenters are also working on solo ventures but have decided against setting up their own companies. Jeremy Clarkson and showrunner Andy Wilman are working with Expectation, while James May is making new shows with longtime collaborator Plum Pictures.

Hungate left Warner Bros in 2017 after three years running its British production operation. She was previously the chief operating officer at Shed,...

Science Channel is ready to ring in the new year with a bang.

The cable network has greenlit The Explosion Show, hosted by Tory Belleci of MythBusters fame and Streetbike Tommy Passemante, a daredevil and stuntman.

Dubbed explosion experts, Belleci was behind some of the most memorable explosions on MythBusters, while Passemante is best known for his antics with Nitro Circus, a collective known for performing dangerous stunts. The show finds them meeting with experts, daredevils and professionals who are in the business of making things explode.

Each week, The Explosion Show will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at "the many ways ...

Exclusive: The Grand Tour showrunner Andy Wilman has revealed new details about the solo projects and specials he is working on with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May for Amazon, as well as the structure of their deal with the streamer.

Wilman spoke to Deadline after we reported that he is shutting down W Chump & Sons – the production company he co-founded with Clarkson, Hammond and May – and The Grand Tour will now be housed with BBC Studios-backed Expectation.

The executive producer said their latest deal with Amazon meant the need for them to have their own production company had reduced significantly. Under the agreement announced in December last year, The Grand Tour‘s studio format is being ditched in favor of a series of road trips, like the two-part Colombia special in season three.

“We’re doing fewer shows to keep the quality control up, so there’s no need for Chump.

Exclusive: The team behind Amazon’s The Grand Tour is on the brink of striking a production deal that will see them tying up with Expectation, the BBC Studios-backed production company founded by former Endemol President Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content chief Peter Fincham.

The deal is still being finalized, but Deadline has learned that Expectation will house the production of The Grand Tour as well as other projects from presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May.

We have heard that executive producer Andy Wilman and his team have already moved into Expectation’s office in Notting Hill, West London, as the final touches are applied to the agreement.

Talks have been ongoing for some time and Expectation’s chief operating officer Alexia Edwards is already the director of a company, named Grand Tour Productions, with Zoe Brewer, who is the director of production on The Grand Tour/Chump Productions.

“Mythbusters” stars Adam Savage, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci were among those paying tribute to the late race car driver Jessi Combs following after she died in a crash on Tuesday.

“She was a brilliant & too-notch builder, engineer, driver, fabricator, and science communicator, & strove everyday to encourage others by her prodigious example,” Savage wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “She was also a colleague, and we are lesser for her absence.”

Jay Leno, who hosted the driver on an episode of his CNBC show, “Jay Leno’s Garage,” also paid tribute to Combs on Twitter, writing, “Your memory lives on.”

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Former “Mythbusters” star and professional race car driver Jessi Combs died in a crash on Tuesday while attempting to break her own land-speed record.

News of her death was confirmed by her teammate Terry Madden in an Instagram post on Wednesday.

“She was the most amazing spirit that I have ever or will ever know,” he wrote. “Unfortunately we lost her yesterday in a horrific accident, I was the first one there and trust me we did everything humanly possible to save her!! I’m not ok, but she is right here keeping my [sic] going.”

So I don’t know how to say any of this but it all needs said. I have never loved or been loved by anyone as much as this amazing...

Amazon has greenlit a six-part survival-cum-engineering series featuring “The Grand Tour’s” Richard Hammond and “Mythbusters’” Tory Belleci. The commission was announced Wednesday by Georgia Brown, director of European Amazon original series, speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

The as-yet-untitled pop-science series from Chimp Productions sees Hammond and Belleci shipwrecked on a remote desert island, and using their engineering and scientific skills not only to survive, but to construct a paradise island playground.

The series follows the pair as they construct an exotic wonderland using what they have from the shipwreck and what they can find on the island. Each episode will see them take on huge feats of engineering to achieve epic builds, ranging from island hopping vehicles to a supersized hydro-power waterwheel.

“Somebody needs to take hold of Popular Science as a genre and reinvent it for a new age. And there are only two people to do that job.

The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond and Mythbusters star Tory Belleci have scored an adventure series with Amazon.

The Svod service has commissioned a six-part series, currently untitled, from Chimp Productions, the production company co-run by the former Top Gear presenter.

In the show, Hammond and Belleci find themselves shipwrecked in mysterious circumstances, stranded on a remote yet beautiful desert island. Rather than sitting around waiting to be rescued, the pair decide to take matters into their own hands as they use all of their engineering and expert scientific prowess not only to survive, but to construct an out-of-this-world, paradise island playground. The series follows the pair as they construct their exotic wonderland using what they have from the shipwreck and what they can find on the island. The duo’s hare-brained builds will range from island hopping vehicles to a supersized hydro-power waterwheel.

The series comes after the digital...

If you missed any of these one-season wonders in the craziness of 2016, this weekend is the perfect time to catch up. “Crazyhead” (Season 1 on Netflix) This British comedy-horror series about a bowling alley employee who moonlights as a demon hunter hails from “Misfits” creator Howard Overman. “White Rabbit Project” (Season 1 on Netflix) Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci and Kari Byron, the build team from Discovery’s beloved “Mythbusters,” now host their own Netflix series in which they investigate weird and wonderful events from pop culture, science and history. “Chasing Cameron” (Season 1 on Netflix) Twitter killed Vine back in October, but the six-second video platform.

“MythBusters” fans can now get their Build Team fix on with Netflix’s new series “White Rabbit Project,” which continues the trio’s science-entertainment adventures just in time for the holidays. It’s the kind of amusing show that you can co-view with your older/younger/dyspeptic family member with whom you may not have the best conversations, sans the unifying aid of TV.

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Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, and Grant Imahara are back in fine form and as charismatic as ever, getting a strong introduction thanks to a snappy synth theme song. Unfortunately, the overall formula for the series is difficult to pull off. We don’t envy whoever had to conceive of a new science-based show to succeed “MythBusters,” which arguably had one of the simplest and yet satisfying premises in this genre:...

2016-12-01T11:14:28-08:00'Mythbusters' Team Returns in 'White Rabbit Project'

The decision to get rid of some of the most beloved members of the Mythbusters cast during the series' final season arguably sealed the fate of the struggling show. Fans who haven't yet forgiven the series for that move are getting some measure of relief with the release this month of White Rabbit Project on Netflix. The series reunites Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara, and they'll be doing a lot of the same things they used to do on Mythbusters.

In White Rabbit Project, the trio will participate in segments that use experiments, tests, and construction projects to illustrate topics such as prison breaks, weaponry, and sensational crimes. Those topics will sound familiar to Mythbusters fans, since they're the kinds of topics that the trio investigated on that show, too.

1. “Trollhunters” Season 1 (available December 23)

Why Should I Watch It? Two big reasons: First, the director of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Guillermo del Toro, created “Trollhunters,” an animated event series about a teenager who discovers a mystical amulet that unveils a secret civilization of trolls beneath his hometown. If the Oscar nominee himself isn’t enough, there’s another creative force — in addition to the impressive voice cast of Kelsey Grammer, Ron Perlman and Charlie Saxton — to pay attention to: Said teenager is voiced by Anton Yelchin, in what’s being billed his final role. After debuting two episodes at New York Comic-Con in October, del Toro said he never even discussed replacing Yelchin. “We didn’t go into a meeting,” del Toro said. “We didn’t have a conference. […] He was a great guy to work with, he was proud of what he did, we were proud of what he did.

After 13 years on the air, fans of Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters” had to say goodbye to the science crew who debunked urban legends by testing them. Now, three of the cast members, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci and Kari Byron, known as the Build Team, are headed to Netflix for their own show “White Rabbit Project.” The streaming service debuted the first official trailer, which you can check out below.

The unscripted series will feature the three “science-loving sleuths” as they rank history’s greatest inventions, heists and more. They’ll look at the coolest tech, weirdest weapons and the craziest escapes to investigate the events from pop culture, science and history.

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The first sneak peek at the show includes the crew drinking wine while being strapped to a bunch of wires, training a pigeon,...

No disrespect to Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara with my title, I just couldn't think of a way to say, "Adam and Jamie aren't in this," in the title! While their role was less substantial than the main hosts in Mythbusters, it looks like they have what it takes to take the lead in their new Netflix exclusive series! White Rabbit Project looks to be Mythbusters 2.0 with crazier experiments, better camera quality, and possibly a bigger budget? 

The trailer does a really good job at making you think this is more of the same, while also looking better than the original series! Watch it below and binge the whole series on Netflix December 9th!

The popular science entertainment series “MythBusters” featured two hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who used the scientific method to test the validity of myths, rumors and more. The series ran from 2003 through March, 2016 and garnered widespread popularity and critical acclaim. The series was nominated for eight Primetime Emmys, Savage and Hyneman have been featured on talk shows like “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “Good Morning America” and at one point, President Obama taped a segment in 2010 covering the Archimedes Solar Ray myth.

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Now, a revival series is currently in the works, but before then, the Science channel will air “MythBusters: The Search,” a competition spinoff of the popular franchise that searches for the series’ new hosts. It will feature 10 contestants who vie for the honor of being the “next generation” of “MythBusters” and...

Gourds will be launched long distances through the air before splattering back to earth when the Punkin Chunkin competition is featured on the Science Channel and the Discovery Channel this November.

Press Release: Projectile pumpkins take over the sky as Punkin Chunkin returns to Science Channel with a three hour simulcast with Discovery Channel – that’s more primetime gourd-chunkin hours than ever before! Punkin Chunkin is the epic gathering of unconventional engineering teams and builders who compete using a variety of technologies - air cannons, catapults, trebuchets and other homemade contraptions - to see who can propel a pumpkin the farthest. This signature Science Channel television event celebrates the science and engineering skills of all those who compete, as well as their creativity, ingenuity, teamwork, and passion. Punkin Chunkin returns in all its glory after a two-year absence as a simulcast on Science Channel and Discovery Channel Saturday, Nov. 26 at 8Pm.

The Science Channel has named Kyle Hill as the host of its upcoming show “MythBusters: The Search,” which will premiere in 2017. Hill is a science editor for Nerdist, the host of YouTube’s “Behind Science” and has contributed to Science Channel’s 2016 series “How to Build…Everything.”

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“MythBusters: The Search” will feature never-before-seen stunts and myth-busting challenges that will focus on contestants’ build skills, science know-how, ingenuity and “resolve,” according to a statement.

“MythBusters is the most iconic science series in the history of television, and Kyle is an enormous talent and the ultimate MythBusters super fan,” Marc Etkind, General Manager of Science Channel, said in the statement. “With his encyclopedic knowledge of every MythBusters episode and stunt ever attempted, he is the ideal host to introduce our all-new myths and potential future mythbusters.

Organizers Call 30th Anniversary Dragon Con a Spectacular Success

Dragon Con, Atlanta’s internationally known pop culture, fantasy, and sci-fi convention, announced a record attendance of more than 77,000 people for its 30th Anniversary celebration.

Fans came from around the world and all 50 states, with this year’s convention attracting people from as far away as Japan, New Zealand, and Fiji. Anime director Shinji Aramaki, one of some 400 actors, artists, authors and other creators, also travelled from Japan to be a part of the celebration.

“Our 30th Anniversary convention was a spectacular success,” convention co-chair Rachael Reeves said. “We notched a number of firsts, and were able to offer our fans an experience that was worthy of this special anniversary.”

As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, the convention, for the first time, offered substantial programming on Thursday and launched a new, fan-driven awards program, the Dragon Awards, to recognize the...

The realities of death are not easy to confront. That much is clear in the trailer Netflix just released for “Extremis,” an original documentary short exploring the harrowing decisions families must make for their loved ones in urgent end-of-life cases relying on machine-based life support.

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“We’re all gonna die…and it’s good to have a little bit of a say in how,” says Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter, the palliative care physician featured in “Extremis,” as we see images of families, doctors and patients in the midst of facing death daily.

The trailer depicts the access granted to Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Dan Krauss (“The Kill Team”) into the ICU unit of an Oakland, California public hospital. Krauss attempts to intimately examine “the intersection of science, faith and humanity” by observing personal, real-time accounts of how...

With nary a "Go Ask Alice," quip, Deadline reports Netflix has ordered The White Rabbit Project TV show, from MythBusters veterans Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, and Tory Belleci. Like their former show, the new unscripted series will debunk or prove pop cultural, scientific and historical legends, via experiments and, of course, explosions.From MythBusters producer, Beyond Productions, The White Rabbit Project premieres on Netflix, Friday, December 9, 2016. John Luscombe, Ryan Senter, and Martyn Ives are executive producing. Read More…...

2016-09-06T12:34:51-07:00'Mythbusters' Team Reunites for Netflix Series

When Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman tried to revitalize their aging Mythbusters series by getting rid of popular cast members Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara, the move didn't have the desired effect. Now Mythbusters has been cancelled, and neither Savage nor Hyneman has resurfaced in a successful mainstream TV project. Byron, Belleci, and Imahara aren't sitting around doing nothing, though. This winter, the team will reunite for a new series on Netflix that showcases the skills that Mythbusters fans grew to love.

The new series, called White Rabbit Project, will feature the trio doing experiments, building contraptions, and testing theories much as they did on Mythbusters. The format appears to be somewhat looser than that of the old show, however, with the team using their experiments to answer questions and explore topics instead...

Among the original programming it has peddled to its subscribers, Netflix has picked up a number of sequel series, revivals, and new seasons of cancelled shows. Now, with its latest announcement, it has extended the lifespan of another TV hit -- sort of. The subscription video on-demand service will be the home of White Rabbit Project, an unscripted series that will star former Mythbusters “interns” Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara.

The White Rabbit Project takes its name from the so-called “rabbit hole” its hosts will descend into as they explore interesting pop culture, science and history topics. According to Deadline, subjects covered by White Rabbit will include “jailbreaks, superpower technology, heists and crazy world war two weapons.”

Byron, Belleci, and Imahara gained fame as the three lab rats who helped Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman build and test the contraptions they needed to test out common theories and urban legends.

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The War on Drugs is not over, at least not on Netflix. Just a few days after Season Two was released, the streaming giant has confirmed the renewal of “Narcos” for two more seasons. Watch the trailer below.

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“Narcos” follows the infamous Colombian Medellín cartel that centered around drug kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) and the U.S. and Colombian law enforcement that battled to bring him down. While the first season tracked Escobar’s rise in the ’70s and ’80s, the second season culminates in his death in 1993, when Escobar suffered a fatal blow to the ear during a shootout after a 15 month search.

So where to go after the death of the “King of Cocaine”, you ask? The series creators insist the show was never about Escobar, but rather about the War on Drugs,...

The long-running Discovery Channel science experiment show Mythbusters came to an end with its final season earlier this year. However, for the last run of the show, the series went back to its roots by bringing back only Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman as hosts, leaving the trio of Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant […]

The post Former ‘Mythbusters’ Trio Reuniting on Netflix for ‘White Rabbit Project’ Series appeared first on /Film.

It was a sad day when Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage ended their long-running Discovery series Mythbusters. After the series ended, the network decided they were going to do a reality TV show to help find the hosts of the rebooted show, which sounds like a terrible idea. I thought it was ridiculous of them not to bring back the awesome M7 Build Team from the original series to continue the tradition of Mythbusters. I would have much rather seen them continue the show.

Well, the build team, which consists of Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci, and Kari Byron, will be back together again in a new series of their own called The White Rabbit Project, and it’s coming to Netflix! The series is described as being “Mythbusters in Wonderland,” and a fan in attendance offered the following explanation to Nerdist:

“The subjects they tackle are those that you find...

Netflix has ordered White Rabbit Project, an unscripted original series starring Mythbusters’ alums Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara, from Beyond Productions, producers of the long-running Emmy-nominated Mythbusters series. It’s set to premiere globally on Netflix December 9. Byron, Belleci and Imahara will be using their scientific sleuth skills honed on Mythbusters for White Rabbit Project. In the Netflix series, the three head down the rabbit hole to…...

Justice Smith is among the breakout stars of “The Get Down,” Baz Luhrmann’s Netflix series charting the early days of hip-hop. In a new Vulture interview, the 21-year-old details the highs and lows of his experience on the show, which was an exception to the rule for him as a biracial actor.

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Smith, whose mother is white and whose father is black, said he’s been told he’s “not black enough for the black roles” and “not white enough for the white roles.” By contrast, “The Get Down” embraced his mixed background.

“As a mixed kid, people want to categorize you as one thing or the other, and I’m proud to be black and I’m proud to be white, because I’m both of those things,” he said. “I’m a biracial human being.

After more than 13 years on the air and nearly 300 episodes, “Mythbusters” came to an end this spring. For fans of the dearly departed show, there’s good news: Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci and Kari Byron (Aka the Build Team) are headed to Netflix with a new venture. Described by the trio as “Mythbusters in Wonderland,” “The White Rabbit Project” will debut on the streaming platform later this year.

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According to Nerdist, the title comes from the fact this new show will center around the oddities you might encounter when you ‘go down the rabbit hole on the internet.’ A quick teaser was shown at Dragon Con, where the announcement was made, featuring Belleci and Byron attempting to enjoy a glass of wine — only one of them is “strapped up to a bunch of wires” while...

It's safe to say you haven't seen donuts like this before. BravoTV.com's digital series, Going Off the Menu, introduces viewers to some pretty atypical food offerings, including donuts from Fill'r Up Gastro Garage, a pop-up foodie haven. In the clip below, exclusive to E! News, hosts Liza De Guia and Russell Jackson take MythBusters veteran Tory Belleci to experience the extreme donuts. What's so special about them? They're cooked with blow torches. Told you it was extreme. "Please blow my mind," Tory asks his culinary chaperons—and they do not disappoint. Adam Manacker, a gastro mechanic and Fill'r Up's "Money Man," greets the trio at the door with—what...

Bravo has produced a number of digital spin-offs for its TV programs, but for the first time ever, the network is releasing a series that isn’t derivative of any other show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bravo will launch Going Off the Menu, an unscripted food series.

Going off the Menu, sponsored by Toyota, will star blogger Liza De Guia and chef Russell Jackson as they travel across Los Angeles in search of unique and unheralded culinary experiences. Along the way, they’ll meet up with several guest foodies, including actress Lea DeLaria and noted Mythbuster Tory Belleci. A sneak peek provides a first look at the underground dining experiences Going off the Menu will explore.

"We're thrilled to satisfy the hunger of our passionate and food-enthused Bravo fans with the debut of Going Off the Menu," Bravo Evp of Digital Lisa Hsia told The Hollywood Reporter. "The launch...

The Mythbusters TV series finale airs Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 8:00pm Et/Pt on Discovery. All of the series hosts -- Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara -- will reunite for the finale.

Mythbusters, which doesn't consistently divide the show into seasons, premiered in 2003. Discovery says, "After 248 episodes, 2950 experiments, 1050 myths, and 900 explosions, Mythbusters will go out with a bang in the epic and explosive series finale episode." That's a lot of busted myths.

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It's no myth. The popular Discovery Channel series Mythbusters will end after its next season, Variety reports.

Created by Peter Rees in 2003, the series is Discovery's longest running show and one of its most popular. Over the past 12 years and 250-plus episodes, hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have used the power of science to test some 1050 myths including topics like the possibility of mind control to whether you can eat a spoonful of cinnamon without water to the science behind Breaking Bad. Oh, and there were also some explosions. Around 900 to be specific.

Through the years, the show has maintained a popular and dedicated audience while earning seven Emmy nominations. The cancellation comes about a year after many of the show's recurring team (Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, and Tory Belleci) left the show and as hosts Savage and Hyneman have...

In Travel Channel's new series Thrill Factor, two Mythbusters vets are (literally) diving into science to find out why some of the nation's most amazing amusement park rides get adrenaline junkies' blood pumping every time.

In an exclusive clip from Wednesday's premiere episode, "Fear of Falling 335 Feet," Kari Byron and Tory Belleci use themselves as test subjects as they take the plunge down Florida's Busch Gardens' Falcon's Fury, the tallest freestanding ride in North America at 335 feet.

Emotions run high in the clip as the ride pulls the hosts up hundreds of feet, with Belleci asking Byron, "What did you have for breakfast?...

When "Mythbusters" returns Jan. 10, it will be without three of its five cast members: Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara are out and in their place will be a greater focus on the process of building things to test myths -- or the things that now stand in for myths. The build team left and/or were fired last summer; one is now producing videos for McDonalds. That means after 12 years, the show is returning to its roots: just Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. Before the two appeared at the winter Television Critics Press tour this morning, a clip package showing excised any mention of the three. I asked about their absence, and Adam Savage said, "We were sad to see them go. We love Kari, Grant and Tory; that's primary." But he said that "any show with longevity goes through stages." With the build team gone, that means...

Mythbusters fans, here are the answers to your long-simmering questions: What's the deal with those cast departures? How will the show's format change now that co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are on their own? What myths will be tested in the upcoming season? What's the one myth the team regrets? How long will Mythbusters continue? And are Adam and Jamie still really not friends? Below, co-host Savage gives EW a candid and thoughtful exclusive interview. We also have a clip from the new season, in which the guys take on a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark. But first,...

Each year, hundreds of pumpkins lose their lives in the Punkin Chunkin World Championship in Dover, Delaware. But their sacrifice is not in vain: Science Channel films the annual event and airs the highlights a couple days after Thanksgiving. The official event was canceled this year (there was a kerfuffle over permits at the regular location), but the Chunk must go on, and so former Mythbusters Kari Byron and Tory Belleci got together with a group of Chunkers in New Hampshire for a weekend of experimental gourd-hurling. The resulting Punkin Chunkin: Superchunk! special will air Saturday, Nov. 29 at 8/7c on both Science Channel and Discovery.

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