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MATING MACHINE
Show title: Mating Machine Run time: 50m × 2eps Director: Son Seungwoo Producer: EBS Exec Producer: Son Seungwoo Genre: Documentary Demographics: Family
ELEVATOR PITCH
Are These Organisms Too Sexy to Survive?
FULL SYNOPSIS
Why do males look more decorated and beautiful? Why are females so picky in choosing their mates? Why do we do things that have nothing to do with our survival? We look for the answers by studying the lives of plants, insects, fish, mammals, birds, and primates of the world. The true winner of the battlefield of evolution is not the ones that survive, but the ones that mate successfully. We have evolved into both surviving machines and dating machines.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS Part 1, Males
The energy of life explodes on two occasions. One is when an organism is hunting, and the other is when an organism is mating. Basic survival is meaningless. If an organism fails to mate, its genes will disappear. And since males cannot give birth to offsprings, they become more desperate. This episode covers the males’ courtship rituals to get chosen by females and the fight for these females.
Part 2, Females
When did males first appear? Was it like Adam and Eve where the male appeared first and the female followed? Or was it the opposite? This episode takes a look at females that hold the secret of the birth of males and the steering wheel of evolution.
COMPANY PROFILE
EBS is Korea’s educational content specialist broadcasting company. Currently, EBS operates eight channels including two terrestrial channels, one radio channel, three satellite education channels, one child channel and one channel for overseas Koreans. Terrestrial channels broadcast educational programmes for infants and children, cultural and documentary programmes for adults, VOD services through various internet/mobile sites, and e-learning content for each level. EBS is a broadcasting company that makes world-class children’s programmes and documentaries beyond Korea. EBS science, history and nature documentaries are already recognised in the world market and are exported to North American and European broadcasters such as PBS, Smithsonian Channel in the USA, France5, Arte and RAI in Europe.
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THE SCIENCE OF COOKING
Show title: The Science of Cooking Run time: 50m × 4eps Director: Jang Huyeong Producer: EBS Exec Producer: Jang Huyeong Genre: Documentary Demographics: Family
ELEVATOR PITCH
Humankind has been creating countless ways of cooking food as long as we can remember. This documentary series takes a look at the world of cooking which is a series of endless accidents, adventures and unexpected connections.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS Part 1, ‘Heat’
“Heat” covers the temperature, which is key to cooking. A major part of cooking involves delivering heat energy to natural things and transforming them to the state where they can be digested and absorbed. This technique does not stop at simply making food taste good. Professor Wrangham of Harvard University says the ability to produce food through heat is what helped humans evolve.
Part 2, ‘Force’
“Force” is about how to change ingredients using physical force. Mankind has realised that making dough to make bread, noodles, rice cake, and tofu and consuming them is far more effective than consuming crops as they are. In terms of preserving, texture, convenience, and nutrient intake, this revolutionary cooking method provided the foundation for cultural development.
Part 3, ‘Microorganisms’
“Microorganisms” is about the fermentation that takes place by them. Fermentation is an advanced cooking method of using microorganisms’ life activities to cook food, and it can synthesise new components and remove toxicity from food. But because it uses microorganisms, it is a unique cooking method that causes both aversion and preference.
Part 4, ‘Taste’
This episode covers the five taste receptors which are sweet, salty, spicy, bitter, and sour. “Why is sugar sweet?” is the wrong question. “Why does sugar taste sweet to us?” is the right question. Taste doesn’t exist in things. It is something our brains create. It is a type of antenna that mankind has developed for survival. It is the ability to consume nutrients and avoid poison. The Korean proverb “Swallow what is sweet and spit out what is bitter” describes that ability perfectly.
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INSECTS, GENIUSES OF STRATEGY
Show title: Insects, Geniuses of Strategy Run time: 50m × 2eps Director: Seo Joon Producer: EBS Exec Producer: Seo Joon Genre: Documentary Demographics: Family
ELEVATOR PITCH
This Documentary looks at the small world of insects resembling the world of humans in its clever survival methods.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS As long as I can leave behind my genes!
Part 1 “Secretive Birth” shows the heartbreaking battles that insects engage in for their offspring. A cockroach wasp makes a huge cockroach its food source for its offspring by controlling the cockroach’s brain, a braconid wasp lays its eggs inside a leaf rolling beetle’s leaf crib, and a mantid fly larvae lives off the egg pocket of a Jorō spider that had struggled for 12 hours in the cold to put it together. You will be led through the lives of insects that adopt different strategies to survive, for the sole purpose of producing offspring.
Insects’ clever survival methods
Part 2 “Hide-and-Seek” introduces the creative hunting techniques and defence strategies of insects. From the private life of an yellow owlfly larva that tricks and hunts its prey with its big, intimidating jaw, a European grain moth larva freeloading off an ant nest, an acorn weevil having a tense standoff to get an acorn, a hide-and-seek between birds and a larva at death’s door, to the emergence of a squeaking silkmoth that overcomes a 1% chance of survival, you will get a close look at the clever tactics that insects employ in order to live and serve their purpose on Earth.
COMPANY PROFILE
EBS is Korea’s educational content specialist broadcasting company. Currently, EBS operates eight channels including two terrestrial channels, one radio channel, three satellite education channels, one child channel and one channel for overseas Koreans. Terrestrial channels broadcast educational programmes for infants and children, cultural and documentary programmes for adults, VOD services through various internet/mobile sites, and e-learning content for each level. EBS is a broadcasting company that makes world-class children’s programmes and documentaries beyond Korea. EBS science, history and nature documentaries are already recognised in the world market and are exported to North American and European broadcasters.
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