Editing MythBusters (section)

== History ==
The series concept was developed for the Discovery Channel as ''Tall Tales or True''<ref name="Knight_v_Beyond">{{cite court|litigants=Knight v Beyond Properties|opinion=<nowiki>[2007]</nowiki> EWHC 1251|court=England and Wales High Court (Chancery Division)|date=April 25, 2007|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2007/1251.html}}</ref> by Australian writer and producer [[Peter Rees (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 [[television pilot|pilot]].<ref name="MBchat_nov04"/><ref name="sneeze"/>

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 (TV 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.<ref name="MBchat_nov04">{{cite web|url=http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/chat/transcripts/04nov10/04nov10.html|title=Transcript of Jamie and Adam's November 10, 2004, Online Chat|work=MythBusters Official Website|publisher=Discovery Communications|date=November 10, 2004|access-date=October 18, 2010}}</ref><ref name="sneeze">{{cite web|url=http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000408.php|title=Adam Savage Interview – Part 1|publisher=The Sneeze|date=August 23, 2005|access-date=August 1, 2006}}</ref>

During July 2006, an edited 30-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 United States version. Some of these scenes are included in "specials", such as "[[MythBusters (2005 season)#Episode SP4 – "MythBusters Outtakes"|MythBusters Outtakes]]".

The 14th season, which premiered in January 2016, was the final season for the series with Savage and Hyneman.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/21/mythbusters-ending-interview|title=MythBusters to end with final season|date=October 21, 2015|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref>

Adam Savage returned to TV with the show ''[[MythBusters Jr.]]'', without his original co-host Jamie Hyneman, but with a cast of teenagers, hence the name. The show debuted on the [[Science Channel]] on January 2, 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/12/28/mythbusters-kid-reality-trend-top-chef-ninja-warrior/2411627002/|title='Mythbusters Jr.' is just the latest kid-friendly reality spinoff: What's behind the trend?|website=USA Today|language=en|access-date=2018-12-28}}</ref> with rebroadcasts every Saturday morning on Discovery, as well as international broadcasts.