[1] Repeats of Series 2 continued on late night BBC One with signing for the deaf throughout January 2012.

Tasks include sending a dead pet's ashes into space using a homemade hydrogen balloon, creating one's own smelting furnace, constructing a pool table, felling a tree using explosives, escaping from Dartmoor prison whilst avoiding detection from expert trackers and making a magnetic ceiling panel to throw your keys at so you don't lose them.

The theme tune was written by May himself and is often played live over the end credits by a variety of different performers, including barber shop quartet, bagpipes and more.

[7] In January 2013, May announced via his Twitter that Man Lab was due to air in March, after the next series of Top Gear had finished.

[9] James May's Man Lab was broadcast on BBC America in the U.S., where it is periodically rebroadcast.