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Engineering the Impossible won the Beijing International Science Film Festival Silver Award, and earned Discovery's third highest Monday night rating for 2002. This resulted the production of Extreme Engineering series. In the Engineering the Impossible pilot and early 1st season, Extreme Engineering focused on extreme projects that hadn't made it to the drawing board. At this point the show relies less on interviews with gritty blue collar working men and dazzling oceanscapes and has shifted to interviews with office-bound visionaries, interrupted here and there by dazzling computer generated graphics. However, given many of these speculations had been made before September 11 attacks, later episode focused more on projects already started. Starting from season 2 and onward, only projects that had started during the production of TV series were covered. Starting from season 3, WAGtv Ltd. took over production, released to Discovery UK. It contains the following construction projects: PILOT (ENGINEERING THE IMPOSSIBLE)
SEASON 1 SEASON 2 (EXTREME ENGINEERING: UNDER CONSTRUCTION) 10 episodes were planned for season 2. It is also the first season using wide screen broadcast. SEASON 3 6 episodes were planned for season 3. This series is not producted by Powderhouse Production. SEE ALSO
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