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| list_episodes = List of MythBusters episodes | camera = Multiple | runtime = 43–44 minutes | distributor = | network = Discovery Channel | picture_format = | audio_format = | first_run = United States | first_aired = | last_aired = | related = ''Head Rush'' | website = http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters | production_website = }} ''MythBusters'' is a science entertainment television program created by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions〔 for the Discovery Channel. The series is transmitted by numerous international broadcasters, including SBS Australia (New episodes, repeat episodes show on 7mate Australia), and other Discovery channels worldwide. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories. The show is one of the oldest—and the most popular—on Discovery Channel currently in production, being preceded only by ''How It's Made'' and ''Daily Planet'', both in Canada. Since 2006, the show has been overseen by British show-runner Dan Tapster, working out of Sydney, San Francisco and Manchester. Filming is based in San Francisco, and editing is done exclusively in Artarmon in Australia. Planning and some experimentation take place at Hyneman's workshops in San Francisco; experiments requiring more space or special accommodations are filmed on location, typically around the San Francisco Bay Area and other locations in northern California, going to other states or even countries on occasion when required. During the second season, members of Savage's and Hyneman's behind-the-scenes team were organized into a second team of Mythbusters ("The Build Team"). They generally tested myths separately from the main duo and operated from another workshop. This arrangement continued until August 2014, when it was announced at the end of "Plane Boarding" that Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, and Grant Imahara would be leaving the show, leaving only Hyneman and Savage as presenters and taking the show back to its origins. On October 21, 2015, it was announced that ''Mythbusters'' would air its 14th and final season in 2016. ''MythBusters'' refers both to the name of the documentary and also the cast members who test the experiments. ==History== The series concept was created for the Discovery Channel as ''Tall Tales or True''〔 〕 by Australian writer and producer Peter Rees of Beyond Productions in 2002. Discovery rejected the proposal initially because they had just commissioned a series on the same topic. Rees refined the pitch to focus on testing key elements of the stories rather than just retelling them. Discovery agreed to develop and co-produce a three-episode series pilot. Jamie Hyneman was one of a number of special effects artists who were asked to prepare a casting video for network consideration. Rees had interviewed him previously for a segment of the popular science series ''Beyond 2000'' about the British/American robot combat television series ''Robot Wars''. Adam Savage, who had worked with Hyneman in commercials and on the robot combat television series ''BattleBots'', was asked by Hyneman to help co-host the show because, according to Savage, Hyneman thought himself too uninteresting to host the series on his own. During July 2006, an edited thirty-minute version of ''MythBusters'' began airing on BBC Two in the UK. The episodes shown on the European Discovery Channel sometimes include extra scenes not shown in the U.S. version (some of these scenes are included eventually in "specials", such as "MythBusters Outtakes"). The 14th season is to be the final season for the series, premiering in January 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mythbusters to end with final season )〕 By the end of the series, Mythbusters will have aired 248 episodes with 2950 experiments and 1050 myths explored.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=‘Mythbusters’ to End After Next Season )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MythBusters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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