The Science Channel Reveals New Series and Specials

-- Programming Examines Titanic Earth Forces, Super Animals --

July 13, 2007

LOS ANGELES – The Science Channel is continuing to captivate, entertain and inform viewers with a wide range of programming, including an upcoming slate of series and specials investigating advances in fuel technology, the forces shaping our planet and creatures that call it home.

“To The Science Channel viewer, science is a way of life—not just a body of knowledge. The audience is passionate about science and they are turning to us to feed their hunger and curiosity,” said Tom Cosgrove, senior vice president and general manager, The Science Channel.

The Science Channel 2007 Discovery Channel summer line-up includes (all times ET/PT):

HARD CORE WEEK
World Premiere, Monday, July 23, to Saturday, July 28, 9–11 PM
HARD CORE WEEK peels back the layers of the earth’s geologic system to tell the compelling story of how the world’s titanic forces play a key role in just about every aspect of life around the globe—from the buildings people live in and what they eat to what they believe and the state of their health. Geoscientists note that by understanding earth’s constantly shifting surface, we can prepare for changes such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and floods to perhaps make adjustments for what lies ahead.

COOL FUEL: FOOD AND VEGGIE OIL
Network Premiere, Sunday, July 29, at 9 PM
Host Shaun Murphy visits New Orleans, where beignets are ground up and used to power his Hummer SUV. Shaun then heads to Texas in a vegetable oil-powered van for a visit with Miss Texas, Stephanie Guerrero.

COOL FUEL: SUGARCANE AND HEMPOLINE
Network Premiere, Sunday, August 5, at 9 PM
Host Shaun Murphy heads to Florida in search of sugarcane for use in powering his motorcycle. He visits the Everglades to check out the local wildlife and picks up a solar-powered boat that he uses to cross Lake Okechobe. He then tests the latest in solar-powered vehicles. Next he heads to the deep South to learn about hempoline. As Shaun crosses and Mississippi, he checks out Civil War battlegrounds and takes part in a Civil War reenactment.

FACES OF EARTH: ASSEMBLING AMERICA
World Premiere, Thursday, August 2, at 10 PM
This episode tells the story of what made the America we see today. By peeling back the layers of time and the parts of the earth system, we ride along with the geoscientists who are unraveling the story of our continent.

FACES OF EARTH: A HUMAN WORLD
World Premiere, Thursday, August 9, at 10 PM
Earth has shaped human evolution and now humans are shaping Earth. This episode focuses on human interaction with the planet. Viewers see how geologic and climatic changes have shaped human development, even sparked human migration around the globe as ice ages retreated and advanced.

SURVIVORMAN
Season Two Network Premiere Wednesday, August 15, at 9 PM
Series Airs Wednesdays at 9 PM
Each episode of SURVIVORMAN finds filmmaker and naturalist Les Stroud in a remote wilderness location with little more than the clothes on his back. Armed with only his rugged determination, intuition and camera equipment, Les not only survives alone for seven days but also documents his journey. The Amazon jungle, the wilds of southern Africa, the rugged Alaskan coast and the Australian Outback are a few of the locations. Les brings the wilderness to life on film as he struggles to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and explore the amazing and beautiful natural world around him.

HOW DO THEY DO IT?
Series Airs Thursdays at 10 and 10:30 PM
Each story in this series takes viewers behind the scenes to reveal the hidden story behind familiar objects of our lives. We rarely consider many of the objects that make up the modern world—elevators, stockings, underground railways, athletic shoes, ballistic missiles, carpets, helicopters, breast implants, streetlights, submarines, bricks, machine guns, supermarket carts. But simple things are often the products of the most extraordinary, highly scientific engineering processes.

SUPER ANIMALS: SUPER JELLYFISH
U.S. Premiere, Sunday, August 19, at 9 PM
Under its gelatinous guise, primitive yet graceful, the jellyfish conceals a complexity that has not yet ceased to amaze scientists. As they invade us in ever-increasing numbers, researchers are mobilizing themselves to better understand these fascinating creatures.

SUPER ANIMALS: SUPER WORM
U.S. Premiere, Sunday, August 26, at 9 PM
The worm, a living tube of flesh, inspires at the most indifference, at the worst, disgust. Yet, it has revealed itself to be a basic model in the understanding of living beings, a key to genetic research and a source for blood substitutes.

SUPER ANIMALS: SUPER COCKROACH
U.S. Premiere, September
Roaches are among the most hated of all insects. Their presence in our homes has traditionally been synonymous with a lack of hygiene. They contaminate food and leave behind unpleasant odors, and are also vectors of disease. Yet they are an exceptional source of inspiration to science, and are at the heart of research in robotics.

AMERICA’S LOST H-BOMB
A deadly threat lurks just a few miles off the coast of Savannah, Ga. On February 5, 1958 A thermonuclear weapon is ejected and lost during a war game between U.S. bombers and fighters. Declassified Department of Defense documents of secret testimony reveal that the bomb is loaded with enough plutonium to wipe out everyone from South Carolina to northern Florida. The Pentagon classifies the weapon as irretrievably lost, but after 9/11 a task force of independent military experts is not so sure. Now, after studying the flight path of the plane that dropped the bomb, sea-bottom radiation levels and tidal patterns over the last 40 years, the task force sets out to find where the danger lies.

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