Testosterone TV: Wednesday, May 2nd

All times Eastern

• 6PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Sulkies; bagpipes; yule logs; fishing lures.
• 6PM, History Channel – Modern Marvels: Pirate Tech. Pirate technology is examined. Included: navigational instruments; ship modifications to improve speed; and weapons. Also: a visit to maritme museums and shipwreck sites.
• 6PM, Discovery Times – Crimes That Shook the World: The Vienna Strangler. A profile of Jack Unterweger, the “Vienna Strangler,” who was convicted of murdering nine prostitutes in Europe and the U.S., and found dead in his cell in 1994 shortly after being sentenced to life in prison.
• 6PM, Discovery Health – Code Blue: The Quiet Voice Above the Din. Doctors treat a variety of medical problems, including a teenage girl with a broken pelvis; a man who was shot three times; a worker whose kidney was destroyed in a construction accident; and a man’s allergic reaction to sausage.
• 6:30PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Goalie pads; lapel pins; cardboard boxes; crystal wine glasses.
• 6:30PM, HGTV – Rezoned: An 1890 paint warehouse; an old fire station; a 19th-century barn; a former recreation center.
• 6:30PM, G4 – Ninja Warrior: Human physical ability is tested in each episode, as 100 competitors push their limits through a physically demanding four-stage course.

7PM and on after the jump!

• 7PM, PBS – BBC World News: International news from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
• 7PM, Food Network – Good Eats: Give Peas a Chance. Peas are spotlighted.
• 7PM, Speed – Chop Cut Rebuild: Quick Change. Body work for the hot rod includes a new back end.
• 7PM, Discovery Health – Impact: Stories of Survival: Avalanche. A motorcyclist ruptures his skull in a jump; a surgeon accidentally severs his fingers with a table saw; a man breaks his leg during an avalanche.
• 8PM, PBS – Wild Chronicles: A look at the hoolock gibbon, an ape native to northeastern India; footage of the rare beaked whale, including a birth; nomads on a salt-trading journey through the Sahara; a farmer’s natural approach to protecting his crops from pests.
• 8PM, Discovery Channel – Hazard Pay: Pyrotechnician. Host Curt Doussett lights up as a pyrotechnician and pedals the streets of San Francisco as a bike messenger.
• 8PM, National Geographic – Explorer: Doomsday Volcano. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard investigates a catastrophic volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea, some 3600 years ago. It’s considered one of the largest eruptions in human history.
• 8PM, Military Channel – Weapons Races: The Race for the Battletank. Examining the development of tanks and tank warfare, including the blitzkrieg offensive.
• 9PM, PBS – Nature: Dogs That Changed the World: Dogs by Design. Conclusion. Narrator F. Murray Abraham calls dogs an “evolutionary miracle.” Examined here is why various breeds were developed, among them, bulldogs, which once controlled livestock in slaughterhouse yards; Pekingese, bred to look like a tiny lion.
• 9PM, Discovery Times – Most Evil: Murderous Women. Host Michael Stone examines the difference between male and female murderers.
• 9PM, Discovery HD – Accident Investigator: Hardwire Horror. Police discover a hit-and-run victim; reconstructionists find themselves working two crash investigations at the same site.
• 9PM, Discovery Channel – MythBusters: Concrete Glider. Adam and Jamie test the old engineering challenge of making a concrete glider fly.
• 10PM, History Channel – Modern Marvels: Deep Sea Salvage. Deep-sea salvage technology used in U.S. Navy diving-and-salvage operations is examined. Included: the USS Salvor salvage ship’s help after the TWA Flight 800 crash in 1996. Also: Alvin, a Navy deep-submergence vehicle.
• 10PM, Discovery HD – Really Big Things: Largest Telescope. Host Matt Rogers visits a vertical-motion simulator, checks a blast-hole drill, and looks through the world’s largest binocular telescope.
• 10PM, Military Channel – First World War: Revolution. Rivaling countries attack each other from within, encouraging revolution and civil disobedience among the enemy.
• 11PM, Comedy Central – Daily Show: Filmmaker Pierre Rehov.
• 11PM, HGTV – Junk Brothers: The Coffee Table and the Iron Gate. A coffee table becomes a standing wardrobe and an iron gate is turned into a fireplace screen with an underwater theme.
• 11PM, Comedy Central – Colbert Report: Author Gina Kolata.