Crazy Contraptions

Contents

Host

Richard Hammond

Co-hosts

Judge: Zach Umperovitch

Insert presenter: Shini Somara

Broadcast

Optomen for Channel 4, 29 April 2022 to present

Synopsis

A sort of inversion of The Great Egg Race in which teams compete to create "chain reaction machines" to carry out a simple task in the most complicated way. In one section they have to demonstrate a particular scientific principle and in another they need to incorprate a particular object. Knockout series structure.

Unfortunately, with so many moving parts (and on this occasion that's not a metaphor), there's very little time to focus on the various engineering challenges in any depth, and then the finale is critically undermined by choppy editing. To show off a chain reaction machine properly, the action needs to flow in, as close as possible, a single continous shot. 48 edits in 70 seconds really won't cut it - or rather it will cut it, to ribbons, robbing us and the teams of the big "wow" moment at the end. Shame.

Trivia

Officially billed as Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions.

See also

Simply Complicated

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