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James May's Man Lab

Field	Value
image	JMMLtitle.png
image_size	250
caption	Series Two Title Card (2011)
genre	Popular science
creator	James May
writer	James May
Henry Dalton
Will Daws
director	Tom Whitter
creative_director	Simeon Oakley
presenter	James May
producer	Tom Whitter
Rebecca Magill
Henry Dalton
editor	Henry Dalton
Alex Sutcliffe
theme_music_composer	"Dr James May BMus"
country	United Kingdom
language	English
num_series	3
num_episodes	13
executive_producer	Will Daws
runtime	60 minutes
channel	BBC Two
BBC HD (2010–13)
BBC Two HD (2013-)
first_aired
last_aired

Henry Dalton Will Daws Rebecca Magill Henry Dalton Alex Sutcliffe BBC HD (2010–13) BBC Two HD (2013-) James May's Man Lab is a British television series presented by former presenter of Top Gear and The Grand Tour James May. The first, three-part series was aired on BBC Two between 31 October and 14 November 2010. The second, five-part series was aired between 25 October and 18 December 2011. Repeats of Series 2 continued on late night BBC One with signing for the deaf throughout January 2012.

Series 3 began broadcasting in March 2013, after Top Gear finished Series 19. Series One was released on DVD on 7 November 2011 by Acorn Media UK, followed by Series Two on 8 October 2012.

Premise

The series explores traditional skills that are being lost by the modern man, and shows how to stop them from being lost forever. Each episode has a variety of themed tasks, including construction, seduction, destruction and more. If science, geometry, maths, logic and explosives can be used in these tasks, so much the better. Tasks include sending a dead pet's ashes into space using a homemade hydrogen balloon, creating one's own smelting furnace, constructing a pool table, felling a tree using explosives, escaping from Dartmoor prison whilst avoiding detection from expert trackers and making a magnetic ceiling panel to throw your keys at so you don't lose them.

The first series also had a celebrity man task, where a celebrity attempted to beat a personal best at a certain 'man task', such as changing a tyre; however, this aspect was not continued into series two. The theme tune was written by May himself and is often played live over the end credits by a variety of different performers, including barber shop quartet, bagpipes and more.

Series overview

Episodes	Originally aired	First aired	Last aired
1	3
2	5
3	url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0105yvp/episodes/guide#b01rmhmn	title=James May's Man Lab - Episode guide	work=bbc.co.uk	access-date=1 April 2013}}

Episodes

Series one (2010)

Series two (2011)

Series three (2013)

On 9 July 2012, May announced on his Facebook page that filming had started on the third series. In January 2013, May announced via his Twitter that Man Lab was due to air in March, after the next series of Top Gear had finished. The series began at 8pm on 28 March 2013.

International

James May's Man Lab was broadcast on BBC America in the U.S., where it is periodically rebroadcast. It has also been broadcast in Australia on SBS One. However, SBS stopped showing series three after just two episodes in June 2013. In New Zealand it used to air on TV3 for first 2 series. From series 3 it will now air on Prime.

Home media

Series One was released on DVD by Acorn Media UK on 7 November 2011. Series Two was released on 8 October 2012.

References

James May's Man Lab. (17 October 2011). "Started work editing the Christmas Ep. James May and Oz Clarke cook the perfect man Xmas dinner with interesting results!".
"James May's Man Lab - Episode guide". bbc.co.uk.
(19 October 2011). "Transmission – BBC Top Gear James' Man Lab is back – Tuesday 25 October, 7pm, BBC2. Here's the trailer «". Transmission.blogs.topgear.com.
"James May's Man Lab Official Site". [[BBC Online]].
(9 July 2012). "James May update". [[Facebook]].
James May. (7 January 2013). "News: Manlab will be shown when the next series of TG has ended. So that could mean March. #CouldAlsoMean2020".
Butcher, Dave. "James May's Man Lab".
(15 June 2013). "James May Gone".
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