MYTHBUSTERS Will End After Next Season
I've got some bad news for all of Mythbusters fanatics out there. The long-running Discovery Channel series will come to an end after next season. The was created by Peter Rees and it first aired in 2004. The show's main stars are Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, and I've been a fan since it first started. I'm pretty bummed out that it's coming to a close after its 14th season.
The show tests science-based theories and pop culture phenomenons, and according to Entertainment Weekly, the series is going to end with a bang. Savage and Hyneman have secretly known the end of the series was coming and they've been prepping for an explosive final run! Savage told the site:
“It was my greatest fear that Mythbusters would just stop and we wouldn’t be able to do proper final episodes. So whether it’s myths about human behavior or car stories or explosion stories, we tried to find the most awesome example of each category and build on our past history.”
Savage he was asked what he was most proud of in terms of the what the show has accomplished. He replied:
"I am most proud that we found a way to tell compelling stories that have real information in them. I see the state of reality television — whether it’s Pawn Stars or Steampunk’d or Face Off — and I see the same kind of narrative playing out endlessly, with people competing and trash talking. Sometimes you see some craft being exercised, but it’s very formulaic. Mythbusters stayed away from being formulaic. We’ve continued to make a fairly vibrant and vital show that I’m very proud of. Jamie and I will head out on tour in November and half the audience will be kids under the age of 8, all the way up to cranky old engineers. When people say, 'I’m a physics teacher and your show has helped me do my job,' or, 'I have a kid with ADHD and he really responds to the show,' every time I hear one of those things it moves me and humbles me. We we’re [sic] even scientists when we started. Making this show has fundamentally changed the way I think and act in the world."
You might not already know Savage and Hyneman have never been friends. They are just working partners. When Hyneman was asked if he'd still like to continue a partnership with Savage, he said:
"That’s a good question. We like to point out we’ve known each other for 25 years and never once sat down to have dinner alone together. We sort of managed to tolerate each other. I think it’s probably safe to say that continuing our on screen relationship in front of the camera is probably not happening. I expect Adam may well pursue things in front of the camera, but I’m most likely not. It’s not who I am. This has been a very rewarding and interesting decade, but it's not really what I’m cut out for."
Hyneman was then asked to talk about his fondest memory of the show and this was his reply:
"There have been so many moments where we were doing something really unusual we’d never have the opportunity to do. It goes back to when we were doing the first rocket car and I was piloting this car in the desert from a helicopter. It was like some wild animal in the savanna and it out-ran the helicopter. It was like a kid’s dream. There have been a lot of moments like that over the years."
I'm gonna miss watching these guys work together, and it will be interesting to see what they end up doing next. To read the full interview, click here.