Engineering:Extreme Engineering
| Extreme Engineering | |
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| Also known as | Build It Bigger Kings of Construction |
| Genre | Documentary / Engineering / Architecture / Science |
| Directed by | Peter Frumkin Olympia Stone |
| Presented by | Danny Forster |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 77 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 42 minutes |
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| Original network | HD Theater Science Channel Discovery Channel |
| Original release | April 13, 2003 – July 9, 2011 |
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Extreme Engineering is a documentary television series that aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The program featured future and ongoing engineering projects. After ending of season 3 it airs under the Build It Bigger name. The series last season aired in July 2011. Danny Forster first hosted the series in season 4 and has been the host since season 6.[1]
Origins of the show
Engineering the Impossible was a 2-hour special, created and written by Alan Lindgren and produced by Powderhouse Productions for the Discovery Channel. It focused on three incredible, yet physically possible, engineering projects: the nine-mile-long (14 km) Gibraltar Bridge, the 170-story Millennium Tower and the over 4,000-foot-long (1,200 m) Freedom Ship. This program won the Beijing International Science Film Festival Silver Award, and earned Discovery's second-highest weeknight rating for 2002. After the success of this program, Discovery commissioned Powderhouse to produce the first season of the 10-part series, Extreme Engineering, whose episodes were written by Alan Lindgren, Ed Fields and several other Powderhouse writer-producers. Like Engineering the Impossible, the first season of Extreme Engineering focused on extreme projects of the future. Season 2 (and all seasons since) featured projects already in construction around the world.
Episodes
Series overview
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Pilot
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Season 1: 2003
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Season 2: 2004
Season 2 was the first season produced in HDTV for HD Theater.
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Season 3: 2005–06
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Season 4: 2006
Powderhouse Productions produced six episodes for season 4 with host Danny Forster. After ending of season 3 it airs under the Build It Bigger name on HD Theater, The Science Channel, and Discovery Channel.
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Season 5: 2006
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Season 6: 2007
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Season 7: 2009
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Season 8: 2010
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Season 9: 2011
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See also
- Mega Builders
- Megastructures, a similar show on the National Geographic Channel
- Impossible Engineering
References
External links
- Powderhouse Productions homepage
- WAGtv homepage
- Extreme Engineering official website at Discovery Channel
- Extreme Engineering episode guide at Discovery Channel
- Build It Bigger official website at Science Channel
- Extreme Engineering on IMDb
- Build It Bigger on IMDb
- Extreme Engineering at epguides.com
- "Woodrow Wilson Bridge Featured On Discovery Channel Tonight" (Washington Post article)
- Symposium W.S.V Simon Stevin, student association of the Mechanical Engineering faculty of the Eindhoven University of Technology
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