Penn and Teller release new "skeptical thinking" show: Tell A Lie

Teller has the following to say:

It takes the basic format of Discovery, which is, you know, fascinating, unbelievable science stories. [Each show will have] six or seven of these science pieces, with us doing a lot of the demos ourselves, and one of them is a lie. It continues our obsession with critical thinking and skepticism. The formation of Penn & Teller was about the idea: Can you use magic to tell the truth? Can you use the idea of lying to really get to what it means to have a fact? Everybody's lying to people on TV, so it's interesting to say when you are.

We wanted to work with Discovery, and then banged around a lot of different ideas. The fact of the matter is that in Penn and Teller: Bullshit and Penn & Teller: Tell a Lie, the first three words are the same. But whether you're talking about our live show or about our TV shows, it's always been about how we, as humanity, tell the difference between fact and fiction. How do we assess the truth, whether you're talking about the edges of science or about communication between people? That issue is very fascinating to us.

Read more about the show and it's availability here.