# Mythbusters Narrator Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-narrator-question/326132 "2005-10-13T22:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-narrator-question/326132/21 "2005-10-15T08:35:55Z")
> [@Ms Macphisto](#): > > Yeah, there’s definitely nothing wrong with a few explosions, though sometimes I think I find the sheer, childlike glee on everyone’s face (but especially Adam’s) every time they blow something up even more entertaining than the explosion itself. Plus funny geeks are always good. > > Now I just need to get the Canadian Discovery Channel to stop showing reruns and start showing these new episodes people are talking about… I love the show! I have been watching it since the earliest of episodes, but only in the last 2 months have I gotten my roommate to watch it. She loves the explosions and just like you, adores the look on Adam’s face. = ) We are both engineers and craftspeople too… so it doesn’t hurt that they have cool tools in their shop to work with either! In fact, the show I catch her watching most often is American Chopper, since they have a sweet tool shop! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-narrator-question/326132/22 "2005-10-15T16:48:53Z")
> [@MyNameIsEarl](#): > > AFAIK, Discovery Channel’s “Modern Marvels” is a US show that’s recently arrived in the UK, and is dubbed - word-for-word - into British English. I believe that the Discovery show “Decisive Battles” is also originally a US show - the British one is dubbed into “British” and also cuts the introduction of the American guy standing in front of the battlefield in question. _Modern Marvels_ is actually a History Channel show. And the battlefield guy is actually Canadian. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WilhelmGefallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@WilhelmGefallen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilhelmGefallen)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-narrator-question/326132/23 "2005-10-15T23:48:52Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > So I was pretty pleased to discover that I could watch Mythbusters on the satellite. However, I do have one question; is the narrator in the US British? The US has an American host, whilst the first season released in Australia on SBS (as opposed to discovery) had Matt Shirvington narrating (poorly too), this was due to the fact that Beyond Tomorrow productions wanted to use scenes from it in there new Beyond 2000 style show. The second season showing on Australian TV actually has the Yank host back, so all is good. Maybe you caught a bit of our Australian episodes? ---
**Author:** ![MyNameIsEarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@MyNameIsEarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyNameIsEarl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-narrator-question/326132/24 "2005-10-16T00:34:03Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > _Modern Marvels_ is actually a History Channel show. And the battlefield guy is actually Canadian. 😃 I stand corrected - thanks to orthopedic shoes! Nah, seriously, my bad. Sometimes it’s hard to keep all those channels apart: Discovery, Discovery Times, Discovery Health, Discovery Kids, Discovery HD, The Military Channel (which I still think of under its former name “Discovery Wings”), The History Channel International and the plain ol’ History Channel. As for the host’s Canadian-ness… well, if they don’t speak with the stereotypical Canadian accent, I can’t tell! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythbusters-narrator-question/326132.md?page=1)