Beyond Television Productions is a subsidiary

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 of the Australia

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n company Beyond International. The company

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 is involved in the creation and international exploitation of television

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, feature film

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s and ancillary products. The company has an extensive television program catalog of over 5000 hours. The library

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 covers all genres including adult drama

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, feature film

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s, comedy

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, children’s, reality

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 and documentaries.

The company was formed in 1985 to produce the science and technology magazine program Beyond 2000, a commercial reworking of the program Towards 2000 which aired on the government-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 network. Beyond 2000 was later relaunched in 2005 and renamed Beyond Tomorrow.

Television series

• MythBusters
  MythBusters
  MythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series is screened by numerous international broadcasters, including Discovery Channel Australia, Discovery Channel Latin America, Discovery Channel Canada, Quest...
  
  
• Cool Stuff: How It Works
  Cool Stuff: How It Works
  Cool Stuff: How It Works is a four-part documentary television mini-series that premiered in 2007 on the Discovery Channel. The program is based on an existing book about how "Modern Marvels" actually work...
  
  
• Prototype This
  Prototype This
  Prototype This! was a TV series that claimed to "look into the viability of gadgets and technology seen in science-fiction movies". The series premiered on October 15, 2008, on The Discovery Channel. It was filmed on Treasure Island and occasionally at Standard Metal Products in San Francisco.The...
  
  
• Beyond Tomorrow
• The Games
  The Games (Australian TV)
  The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000....
  
  
• Deadly Women
  Deadly Women
  Deadly Women is a television series first aired in 2005 on the Discovery Channel, focusing on female killers. It was originally a mini-series consisting of three episodes: "Obsession," "Greed" and "Revenge". After a 2 year hiatus, the show resumed production in 2008 and began airing on the...
  
  
• Toybox
  Toybox (TV series)
  Toybox is an Australian children's television series first screened on the Seven Network in 2010. The series is created by Beyond, produced and directed by Ian Munro, with 75 half-hour episodes for pre-school children....
  
  
• Selling Houses Australia
• Behind Mansion Walls
  Behind Mansion Walls
  Behind Mansion Walls is a documentary and news program broadcast on the Investigation Discovery cable television channel since June 6, 2011....