Anne Hegerty
Self
The Chasers Road Trip: Trains, Brains and Automobiles (2021)
Season 1
Anne Hegerty, Shaun Wallace and Mark Labbett embark on a geeky road trip to uncover the cognitive abilities of animals. The brainboxes have won quizzes the world over, but wonder where they are in the pecking order of intelligent life forms.
Released Jan. 21, 2021
Episode 45 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
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Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - USA
They start out in the USA, where they pit their wits against Kanzi, a bonobo ape who is able to communicate with humans using a series of pictures and symbols - and is also thought to be one of the first apes to show an understanding of spoken English. They also meet a chimpanzee memory wizard, a 25-year-old orang-utan that enjoys playing video games and that well-known genius of the ocean, the dolphin.
Jan. 21, 2021, midnight
S1E2 - UK
Anne Hegerty, Shaun Wallace and Mark Labbett set out to uncover the surprising cognitive abilities of children. Travelling across the UK, the trio take on child geniuses before delving deeper into IQ, emotional intelligence and creativity.
Jan. 28, 2021, midnight
S1E3 - Japan
Travelling across Japan, Anne, Shaun and Mark come face-to-face with the future of intelligence, from a self-solving puzzle cube and facial recognition technology to cutting edge robots that are being used in a wide variety of industries.
Feb. 4, 2021, midnight
Network: ITV1
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 135 min.
Released: Jan. 21, 2021
Last Air Date: Feb. 4, 2021, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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