They wouldn't happen to have an award for Scrapheap Challenge, would they?
The TLC cable channel in the United States ended up so embarassed over their "re-tooled, re-engineered, re-born" counterpart of Scrapheap Challenge (Junkyard Wars) that ended up being overwhelmingly re-jected by its past fan base that they rushed over to this country the current season of Scrapheap Challenge, "re-badged" them as Junkyard Wars, and began putting them on, even while the U.K. season was still in progress. (In past years, they waited until the U.K. series was completed before airing it in the U.S.)
I taped the Sunday rebroadcast of the second episode in the current series, in which the teams were challenged to build mechanical bomb-disposal devices. Superb engineering by both teams, even though all the bombs blew up in the final round of competition.
Michael Brandenburg
(Oh, by the way, no Junkyard Wars Thanksgiving Day marathon this year -- too many people threw up over that "bomb" of a Junkyard Wars season that aired from August 27 to October 12, 2003!)
