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Wired Science Final Impressions

I have just seen the first episode of Wired Science. It was awesome, the makers of the magazine intergrated their style with television to make a great show. My favroite segment was Vaporware where the program featured an actual real working jetpack. In my very two eyes I saw the jetpack going sky high, I can't really explain it fully but it was really a blast.

I would recommend this program for any family audience (It's classified TV-G). It's also great for teenagers who are into technology, as there is little programing that would be of interest of them. But again, MPT should be ashamed of themselves for not promoting this show days ago. (Then again they have no shame of shoving Self-help guru's down our throat every month.)

P.S. Evidently Wired Science is one of three potential new sciences series to be shown regularly on PBS but only one will be selected. The other two are 22nd Century and Science Investigators.

As a matter of fact here are the other decriptions of all three. (You might have to go almost the bottom half to see the actual article about the pilots and be warned that this article is from six months ago.) (Here's another great article about the programs)

Science Investigators from WGBH and Lion Television, in which four young hosts armed with gadgets and “attitude for the blog generation,” explore scientific mysteries.

22nd Century from former Oregon Public Broadcasting production chief John Lindsay and Tower Productions, which reports on the dramatic changes that research will bring within our lifetimes and examines resulting ethical and philosophical questions.

Wired Science from KCET in Los Angeles and Wired magazine, which transplants the magazine’s DNA—technology news and its impact on society—into a fast-paced, timely TV show.

Personally, Wired Science could be probally become one television's most scientific series of the year.