Did anybody see the premiere of this on The Kaboom! Discovery Channel on Monday? Basically it’s Monster Garage meets Robot Wars. (In fact, I think DC entirely creates its new programming by putting slips bearing the names of their old shows in a hat and drawing two of them at random to combine.) Two teams of two guys are each given a vehicle and a week to armor and weaponize it–each team, for instance, gets a pair of various sorts of machine guns issued to them every week–and then they remote control go all Robot Wars on each other, although that wussy rule against projectile weapons is (obviously) out the window. The vehicles are even loaded with explosives so if they get hit correctly they blow up real good.
Anyway, not exactly sophisticated TV, but what the hell, it’s entertaining. Still, I’m not sure where ‘discovery’ comes into it.
