--- title: Discovery Channel's Mythbusters Ends After 14 Seasons description: The show's next season will officially be its last canonical: https://time.com/4082028/mythbusters-final-season/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T19:21:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:14.567Z og:title: 'Mythbusters' Will Air Its Final Season og:description: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman will conduct their last crazy experiments og:url: https://time.com/4082028/mythbusters-final-season/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta76b5c6c19de30e5/69886265e20a874b89a8d184/gettyimages-461198778.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3984 og:image:height: 2241 og:image:alt: 2015 Winter TCA Tour Portraits - Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Mythbusters' Will Air Its Final Season twitter:description: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman will conduct their last crazy experiments twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta76b5c6c19de30e5/69886265e20a874b89a8d184/gettyimages-461198778.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Mythbusters_ Will Air Its Final Season > Sponsored content. 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Thus, they’ve had time to prepare some top-notch final episodes. “It was my greatest fear that _Mythbusters_ would just stop and we wouldn’t be able to do proper final episodes,” Savage tells _EW_. “So whether it’s myths about human behavior or car stories or explosion stories, we tried to find the most awesome example of each category and build on our past history.” Next up for Savage and Hyneman? They’re executive producing a scripted show at CBS but can’t reveal any details yet. Though they’ve had a great working partnership on _Mythbusters_, they’ve never been friends off-screen. According to Hyneman, they probably won’t continue an on-screen relationship. Read [_EW_‘s interviews ](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/21/mythbusters-ending-interview)with Savage and Hyneman for more. _Read next:_ [_The Mythbusters Shrieking Duck ‘Bomb’ Will Blow Up Your Eardrums_](http://time.com/4076461/mythbusters-duck-army-bomb/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4082028/mythbusters-final-season/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4082028/mythbusters-final-season/"},"headline":"Mythbusters Will Air Its Final Season","datePublished":"2015-10-21T19:21:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:14.567Z","description":"Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman will conduct their last crazy experiments","url":"https://time.com/4082028/mythbusters-final-season/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta76b5c6c19de30e5/69886265e20a874b89a8d184/gettyimages-461198778.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta76b5c6c19de30e5/69886265e20a874b89a8d184/gettyimages-461198778.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2015 Winter TCA Tour Portraits - Day 2","caption":"2015 Winter TCA Tour Portraits - Day 2","creditText":"Maarten de Boer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4082028/mythbusters-final-season/","name":"Mythbusters Will Air Its Final Season"}}]}] ```