English Tv Show Destroyed In Seconds

Destroyed in Seconds is an English language TV show that aired on the Discovery channel. The show premiered on television for two seasons. The first reason started on 21 August 2008 and ended on 23 March 2009. It aired on Thursdays and ran for 34 episodes. The second season started on 30 March 2009 and ended in mid-2020. It aired on Tuesdays and ran for 30 episodes. The show was produced by Pilgrim Films and Television. It was presented and narrated by Ron Pitts. Each episode ran for about 30 minutes. As the name suggests, Destroyed in Seconds features things being destroyed within seconds. The format of the show goes like this; the show opens with a quick compilation of the videos being featured in the episode while the voiceover of Pitts narrating, "Without so much as a warning, life hangs in the balance. Human endeavour turns to chaos. And within seconds, nothing will ever be the same. Ever” plays in the background.

This slide show is followed by the one-line narration of any two incidents from the episode, which is ended with the phase ‘destroyed in seconds’ inserted in it. Then the intro of the show is played. Once the intro ends, the detailed videos of the incidents, those that make the viewers flinch, are played as recorded by someone else. Whenever we see something happen, we immediately reach for our cameras and mobiles. Videos captured on these devices or security cameras are assembled in one place. Each episode featured eight to nine such videos along with the reactions of the public surrounding them. It also features people who have displayed tremendous fortitude in getting themselves and others to safety. The incidents featured on the show are; military crashes, mudslides, a man falling into a volcano, windmill hazards, race car crashes and them bursting into flames, cars going into the sky during tornadoes, helicopter crashes, a tanker truck fire, a speedboat hitting the shore, Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, a ship crashing into a bridge, a tornado ripping a house off its foundation,

a blown up munitions factory, fire in a gas station, the PEPCON disaster, building crashes, Santa Clara River overflow destroying several houses, explosion of a styrene tanker truck, plane crashes, earthquake destroying St. Francis Church, the Hurricane Iniki, collapse of a water tower, stolen dump truck chase ending in a crask, railway car explosion, gas dire tank explosion, 1970s nuclear flask crash test footage, collision of two MIG-29s, detonation of 3300 pounds of explosives, mountain bikes falling off a 150 feet high cliff, Evel Knievel’s fountain crash, a hot air balloon hitting a radio tower, planes crashing into the ocean, a mansion getting swallowed up by a sinkhole, test flight crashes, Seest fireworks disaster, construction building collapses, a sinkhole eating 144 apartments, nuclear bomb testings,

national championships fails, motorcycle race crashes, buildings catching fires, intruders attacking shops and people, collapse of dams, factory fires, the 2008 Toronto propane explosion, boot racing disasters, the Wisconsin tornado outbreak of 2005, car crashes, the Enschede fireworks disaster, the 2008 Santa Catarina floods, New Jersey natural gas explosion of 1994, the Andover tornado outbreak, the Manitoba tornado of 2007, and the 1993 Pantai Remis landslide among others.