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James May Returns to The Reassembler For a Second Season

James May is our resident Captain Slow, and legions of fans recognize him as one third of the Top Gear/The Grand Tour hosting trio. But did you know Mr. May also dabbles in a quite a few other programs?

One such show is The Reassembler, which is pretty much exactly like it sounds like; James takes a bunch of stuff apart and reassembles it (such as 331 parts for a gas lawnmower which took 10 hours). It is far more entertaining than it sounds, especially with James’ personality on display.

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The Guardian now reports that BBC4 has moved ahead with a second series of The Reassembler, which will include May reassembling things such as a Kenwood Chef food mixer and a Hornby toy train and track.

“Here we go then. More workshop cock-ups and cod philosophy,” said May. “To be honest, I’d probably be doing this even if no one was filming it. There’s a lot of false jeopardy in TV, but this is absolutely real; I really do stand there for hours putting things back together.”

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“The great thing about reassembling bits of the past is that you’re reminded of how terrible it all was,” said May. “These are warnings from history – ignore them at your peril. It took me all bloody day to get that old record player back together. I celebrated by going out and buying a new tablet, with a massive memory.”

BBC4 has increased Series 2 to four 30 minute episodes, up from the three of the first series. Series one was quite successful, reaching approximately one million viewers per episode.

Tony Hsieh

Cars, the Buffalo Bills, video games, comics, sandwiches, jelly beans, and the shooting star press; these are the things that Tony loves (in addition to his family, of course). When he's not spending his time writing tech reviews for theslanted.com, Tony puts his lifetime love of muscle cars to use on his 2015 Mustang GT. Tony's top three favorite cars are the 1973 Mustang Mach 1, Ferrari 458, and Aston Martin DBS.

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  1. I really enjoyed this show. It scratched that itch I had as a little boy to take everything to bits and try to put it back together again, can’t do that now apparently according to the wife we need a “working” toaster and and a vacuum cleaner is not meant to smoke like that.
    Still really hoping beyond hope for more man lab

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