Mayday (Canadian TV series)
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Created by | André Barro |
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Release | 3 September 2003 present | –
Mayday—alternatively known as Air Crash Investigation(s) in
Hallmarks
The series features re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, and in nearly all of the episodes, voice-actor readings of
Throughout the episodes, the victims (or the relatives and friends of the victims) are interviewed, adding further information about a case as it relates to them personally.[4] In addition, aviation experts, retired pilots, and investigators are interviewed on the evidence and explain how these emergencies came about and how they could have been prevented.[4]
Production and distribution
Cineflix started production for Mayday on 13 August 2002, with a C$2.5 million budget, after
In 2011,
In 2020, The Weather Channel in the United States began airing several episodes of the series under the title Mayday: Air Disaster.[1][2]
Starting in 2021 and continuing to this day, the Wonder and On the Move YouTube channels (owned by Little Dot Studios, a subsidiary of All3Media[11]) uploaded the first nine seasons of Mayday and the Crash of the Century special with the episodes in their full uncut versions and are available in all countries, with the exception of the United Kingdom, where they are geoblocked.[12][13]
In the United States, the show's tenth and twelfth seasons are available for streaming online on free, advertiser-supported streaming services Tubi and Freevee under the title Mayday: Air Disasters, while the show's first season is also made available for streaming online on Amazon Prime Video, provided by MagellanTV, under the title MayDay: Air Disaster Investigations.[14][15][16]
Episodes
As of 12 December 2023, 270 episodes of Mayday have aired, including five Science of Disaster specials, three Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, which do not examine aircraft crashes, and a sub-series labelled The Accident Files that aired four seasons.
Seasons[17] | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 6 | 3 September 2003 | 22 October 2003 | |
2 | 6 | 23 January 2005 | 27 February 2005 | |
3 | 13 | 14 September 2005 | 7 December 2005 | |
4 | 10 | 15 April 2007 | 17 June 2007 | |
5 | 10 | 9 April 2008 | 11 June 2008 | |
6 | 3 | 16 December 2007 | 2 March 2008 | |
7 | 8 | 4 November 2009 | 17 December 2009 | |
8 | 2 | 10 June 2009 | 17 June 2009 | |
9 | 8 | 8 September 2010 | 27 October 2010 | |
10 | 6 | 27 February 2011 | 28 March 2011 | |
11 | 13 | 12 August 2011 | 13 April 2012 | |
12 | 13 | 3 August 2012 | 15 April 2013 | |
13 | 11 | 16 December 2013 | 9 May 2014 | |
14 | 11 | 5 January 2015 | 2 March 2015 | |
15 | 10 | 4 January 2016 | 17 February 2016 | |
16 | 10 | 7 June 2016 | 13 February 2017 | |
17 | 10 | 20 February 2017 | 3 October 2017 | |
18 | 10 | 13 February 2018 | 4 July 2018 | |
19 | 10 | 2 January 2019 | 11 March 2019 | |
20 | 10 | 9 January 2020 | 12 March 2020 | |
21 | 10 | 4 April 2021 | 6 June 2021 | |
22 | 10 | 3 January 2022 | 12 February 2022 | |
23 | 10 | 3 January 2023 | 7 March 2023 | |
24 | 10 | 11 February 2024 | 14 April 2024 |
Reception
The series has been well received by critics.[4] Franck Tabouring from DVD Verdict said, "It's a well-produced show with plenty of compelling information about tragic accidents, telling how some people survived and others didn't."[4]
The senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. The study was done with prospective pilots studying the "Aircraft Systems for Aviators" undergraduate course by including "study of air accidents and incidents associated with aircraft systems." The results of the study showed "the use of air accidents and incident scenarios had a positive effect on learning outcomes."[3]
Awards and nominations
Overall, the series has been nominated for nine awards, winning two, both for film editing.
Year | Nominated work | Recipient(s) | Category | Result |
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Canadian Society of Cinematographers | ||||
2004 | "Flying Blind" | Michael Boland | Best Cinematography in Docudrama | Nominated |
2008 | "Final Approach" | Damir I Chytil | Nominated | |
"Gimli Glider" | D. Gregor Hagey | Nominated | ||
2009 | "Air India: Explosive Evidence" | Paul Tolton | Nominated | |
"Fatal Distraction" | D. Gregor Hagey | Nominated | ||
Gemini Awards | ||||
2009 | Mayday: Season 5 | Simon Lloyd • Larry Bambrick • Katherine Buck • Alex Bystram • Greg Lanning • Samantha Linton • Glen Salzman • John Vandervelde |
Best General/Human Interest Series | Nominated |
2010 | "Lockerbie Disaster" | Sharon Zupancic | Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series | Won |
Canadian Screen Awards | ||||
2014 | "Focused on Failure" | Brian Eimer • Jessica Moniz • Josh Vamos • Matt Vandersluys • Michael Bonini • Nadia Awad |
Best Sound in an Information/ Documentary or Lifestyle Program or Series | Nominated |
2015 | "Into the Eye of the Storm" | Dan Hawkes | Best Picture Editing in a Factual Program or Series | Won |
Home media
In 2009, Entertainment One released the complete first season of the show on DVD in Region 1 in Canada.[18]
Shock Records has released Seasons 1–18 in Australia as a 48-disc set, coded NTSC, Region 4.
See also
- Seconds From Disaster
- Seismic Seconds
- Blueprint for Disaster
- Black Box
- Why Planes Crash
- Terror in the Skies
Notes
- ^ The UK broadcast of season one was hosted on Channel Five and narrated by David Bamber
References
- ^ a b Daingerfield, Michael (14 November 2022). "Michael Daingerfield – Voice Over".
- ^ a b "Original Show – Mayday: Air Disaster | The Weather Channel Television Network". weathergroup.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ a b Lewis, Raymond (December 2009). "Air Crash Investigators – comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation to enhance student learning" (PDF). 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 6–9 December 2009: Engineering the Curriculum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011.
- ^ a b c d Tabouring, Franck (23 April 2009). "Mayday – Air Disasters". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on 15 May 2011.
- ^ "New Cineflix science series Mayday starts production" (Press release). Cineflix. 13 August 2002.
- ^ Luke, Donna (1 January 2003). "No Borders" (Interview). Interviewed by Susan Zeller for Realscreen.
- ^ a b "Cineflix goes global with popular science series Mayday. Germany's Prosieben latest channel to acquire the show" (Press release). Cineflix. 2 June 2003. Archived from the original on 27 October 2010.
- ^ "Cineflix International strikes NATGEO deal for new popular science series Mayday" (Press release). Cineflix. 22 October 2003. Archived from the original on 27 October 2010.
- ^ "Cineflix Rights seals North and Latin American deals" (Press release). Cineflix. 25 January 2012.
- ^ "Cineflix Rights seals multiple deals in advance of MIPTV 2014" (Press release). Cineflix. 28 March 2014.
- ^ "Wonder". littledotstudios.com. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
- ^ "Wonder – YouTube". Retrieved 4 January 2022 – via YouTube.
- ^ "On the Move". YouTube. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ "Watch Mayday Air Disasters". Tubi. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ "Watch MayDay: Air Disaster Investigations". Amazon Prime Video. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ "Watch Air Disasters". Amazon Prime Video. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ "Mayday: Air Disaster - Program Overview". Cineflix Rights. Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ "Mayday: Air Disasters". Amazon. July 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
External links
- Cineflix: Mayday
- Cineflix: Mayday – Science of Disaster (Archive)
- Cineflix: Crash of the Century
- Mayday on Discovery Channel Canada
- Air Crash Investigation on National Geographic Channel UK
- Air Crash Investigation National Geographic Channel Australia
- Air Disasters on Smithsonian Channel
- Mayday at IMDb
- Mayday's channel on YouTube