Experimental is a British factual television series produced by NERD and aired on Channel 4 in 2015. The show, created and presented by Tim Shaw and featuring Buddy Munro, attempts to recreated various viral videos in an effort to prove their validity.
| Experimental | |
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| Also known as | Man v Viral |
| Genre | Factual television |
| Developed by | John Farrar and Jago Lee |
| Written by | Stephen Shearman, Martin Morrison, Tim Shaw |
| Directed by | Stephen Shearman |
| Presented by |
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| Narrated by | Nick Ellsworth |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Sarah Ramsden, Ed Sayer |
| Producers | Stephen Shearman (Series)
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| Production locations |
Poland Munich, Germany |
| Cinematography | Ossian Bacon |
| Editors |
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| Camera setup | Sony F55, Sony FS7, Sony A7S |
| Running time | 60 minutes (with adverts) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Channel 4, National Geographic Channel |
| Release | 26 July – 3 November 2015 |
Series Produced and Directed by Stephen Shearman.
Experiments edit
The show features a variety of experiments including:
- Can you play tennis on the wings of an aircraft?
- A cola Geyser with 1,000 L (260 US gal; 220 imp gal) of cola and 7000 Mentos
- Can you lift a person off the ground with fire hoses?
- Can you scale a wall with only vacuum cleaners?
Episodes edit
| Episode | Description | Airdate |
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| 1 | Presenter Tim Shaw and daredevil friend Buddy Munro travel the globe to recreate some of the most famous – and dangerous – viral videos to have ever appeared on the internet, hoping to uncover the scientific truth behind them in the process. In the first episode, Tim tries to remake a video of Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic playing tennis on the wings of a flying aircraft, travelling to Germany to see if they can achieve the same on an Antonov An-2. Strapped to the wings, Buddy challenges a professional air-acrobat to a rally hundreds of metres above the German countryside. The pair also drop 7,000 mint sweets into 1,000 litres of cola, and Buddy tries an unusual fireman's lift in Whitehaven, Cumbria – being elevated on a platform by just the force of fire engine water hoses.[1] | 26 July 2015 |
| 2 | Buddy Munro goes flying off a ramp using an engine-powered glider, and also uses jet propulsion to ski uphill on a trip to the Czech Republic's Krkonose Mountains. Tim Shaw checks out videos of people trying to do the splits in mid-air and finds out what this does to the human body, and tries out various gadgets to build a working hover-board.[1] | 2 August 2015 |
| 3 | Tim Shaw and Buddy Munro experiment with water skiing behind a hydrofoil ferry, and trying to avoid the vessel's dangerously large wake. They meet the star of an internet video who filmed himself holding onto a high pressure hose. In Munich the duo explore the game of Racing the Tube – getting off an underground train and trying to beat it to the next station.[1] | 9 August 2015 |
| 4 | Tim Shaw and Buddy Munro go to the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, and try riding down the slopes on a shovel. Tim also builds a football-firing air cannon to recreate an incident where a ball was fired from a coach, and rebounded back to be caught by one of its passengers. The duo watch a video of an unusual firework in a Thai religious festival, and build a giant rocket out of bamboo.[1] | 16 August 2015 |
| 5 | Tim Shaw builds a giant catapult to fire Buddy out of, and draws inspiration from clips of people propelling swivel chairs around the room with leaf blowers to create a low-friction version with two engines. The duo heads for Georgia to carry out a dangerous stunt testing the science of acceleration. Buddy is challenged to make the longest possible free fall from a tower block – but is reluctant to go through with it.[1] | 23 August 2015 |
| 6 | Tim builds a vacuum-powered climbing kit and challenges Buddy to scale the walls of an underground theatre. The duo examine clips of a skier riding down Britain's longest escalator and people rolling down hills in tractor tyres, and also find out about the effects of g on fighter pilots by attaching a moped to a children's roundabout.[1] | 3 November 2015 |
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f "Experimental: Season 1 Episode 6 | LocateTV". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2016.