Scrapheap Challenge events. Examples of challenges included making a jet car, a bridging machine, a car-crusher, and a machine to fling a British Leyland Mini as far as possible. Assistant producer Eve Kay had the idea for the show after watching a scene in the movie "Apollo 13", where NASA engineers had only a short period of time to construct a carbon dioxide filter out of parts available on the space capsule. The show also draws its inspiration from the 1980s TV series "The Great Egg Race". The UK show was originally presented by Robert Llewellyn, joined in series 2-4 by producer
Andre Hall (actor) of Tyler Perry's new sitcom, "Love Thy Neighbor". In 2015 Hall was cast in Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart and to be released in 2016 on Lifetime. Andre Hall (actor) Andre Hall (born September 3, 1985 in Rota, Spain whose parents were both in the U.S. Navy) is an American actor and model. He is best known for his role as Keri Lewis in the Toni Braxton Bio-pic and as Danny Harris in the Tyler Perry sitcom "Love Thy Neighbor". Hall, born in Rota Spain and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana moved to Los Angeles, California in 2008 to pursue his