MythBusters: The Search
Genre	Factual television Science
Created by	Jen Longhurst Wyatt Channell Marc Etkind Peter Rees
Based on	MythBusters
Written by	Chris Williams
Presented by	Kyle Hill
Narrated by	Robert Lee
Composers	Udi Harpaz Or Kribos Dean McGinnes JB Markham
Country of origin	Australia United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Camera setup	Multiple
Running time	42 minutes
Original release
Network	Science Channel
Release	January 7 (2017-01-07) – February 25, 2017 (2017-02-25)

MythBusters: The Search is a reality competition series that aired on the Science Channel. The series aimed to determine the hosts of a reboot of the Discovery Channel series MythBusters.

History

The original run of MythBusters concluded in 2016, after its original hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman confirmed in October 2015 that the then-upcoming season would be their 14th and final season.^[1] In late March 2016, it was revealed by Variety that Discovery Channel's sister network Science was planning a spin-off reality series, tentatively titled Search for the Next MythBusters, which would determine hosts for a revival of the series.^[2]

In September 2016, it was announced that Nerdist science editor Kyle Hill would host the series.^[3]

The revival, featuring the winners of The Search, premiered on Science in November 2017.^[4]

Show format

The series started with 10 contestants; in each episode, contestants compete in one team task (two or three teams competing) and one individual task. In each task, as in the original MythBusters series, the contestants are instructed to scientifically test the validity of a claim (with some tasks based on or expanding from myths covered by previous episodes of MythBusters). At the end of each episode, an MVP is declared, who is granted immunity from elimination. In most episodes, the worst-performing contestant was eliminated.

Contestants

  – Winner

  – Runner-up

  – MVP

Series overview