''Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger'' was a
New Zealand
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science-based
reality television
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series broadcast on
TV3. Each episode saw the two hosts,
James Coleman and Greg Page, work to produce a "new and improved" version of a household appliance or object.
At the beginning of each episode, the hosts selected their team from a combined pool of five people, four of whom had skills that were of value to the project, and one of whom (the wildcard) did not. They then spent the remainder of the day in a
shed
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producing the new device, before holding competitive tests the following morning. The tests were adjudicated by Kirsten Pederson.
Before the series aired, Coleman told news media that the episode in which he attempted to make a clothes drier from a lawnmower engine and an angle grinder was a near-disaster, as "The clothes ended up being distributed in specks of cotton around the laundry and the hooks flew off and embedded themselves around the set," but "Luckily, they didn't kill or blind anyone."
The series was nominated for an
Aotearoa Film & Television Award in 2011.
Episodes
See also
;Similar television series
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Bang Goes the Theory''
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Brainiac: Science Abuse''
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Dude, What Would Happen?''
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It's Effin' Science
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MythBusters
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Prototype This!
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Proving Ground
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The Re-Inventors''
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Smash Lab
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The show started broadcasting in the UK on 3 Mar ...
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Time Warp
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The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularize ...
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References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 2105170
2011 New Zealand television series debuts
2011 New Zealand television series endings
English-language television shows
New Zealand reality television series
Television shows funded by NZ on Air
Three (TV channel) original programming