James Mays Man lab Complete S02 HDTV 720p

James May's Man Lab is a British television series presented by Top Gear presenter James May. The first, three-part series was aired on BBC Two between 31 October and 14 November 2010. The second, five-part series was aired between 25 October and 18 December 2011. Repeats of Series 2 continued on late night BBC One with signing for the deaf throughout January 2012.

The show explores traditional skills that are being lost by the modern man, and how to stop them from being lost forever. Each episode has a variety of themed tasks, including construction, seduction, destruction and more. If science, geometry, maths, logic and explosives can be used in these tasks, so much the better. Tasks include sending a dead pet's ashes into space using a homemade hydrogen balloon, creating one's own smelting furnace, constructing a pool table, felling a tree using explosives, escaping from Dartmoor prison whilst avoiding detection from expert trackers and making a magnetic ceiling panel to throw your keys at so you don't lose them.

The first series also had a celebrity man task, where a celebrity attempted to beat a personal best of a certain 'man task', such as changing a tyre; however, this aspect has not continued into series two. The theme tune was written by May himself and is often played live over the end credits by a variety of different performers (barber shop quartet, bagpipes etc.).

The location of the Man Lab studio was revealed by James to be 52°26′23″N 0°13′11″W. This appears to be an arable field in Cambridgeshire so, unless built recently, it is probably not accurate.

Series 3 is currently filming, and will be aired during Autumm 2012.[3] Series One was released on DVD on 7 November 2011 by Acorn Media UK. Series Two is due for release on 8 October 2012 by Acorn Media UK.

Complete season 2: 4 episodes