Airdate: Nitro Circus

MTV airs an 8-part documentary following the Nitro Circus crew as they travel the world with their spectacular live arena show.

It showcases their dangerous show stunts, as well as behind-the-scenes of the 40 crazy young performers.

The Nitro TV series stars 17 times X Games Gold medalist Travis Pastrana, the world’s greatest action sports star, and his fearless Nitro crew, plus some of the most well-known and accomplished action sports stars on the planet.

The series combines spectacular and dangerous stunts with non-stop, behind-the scenes action, which is sometimes dramatic, often highly inspirational and almost always hilarious.

The first series, set in Australia and New Zealand, will take viewers through all the drama and injures that occur in the lead-up to the worldwide premiere of a show, the likes of which has never been contemplated before.

The series then takes viewers on a behind-the scenes ride of a lifetime, as the crazy Nitro crew do everything from camel racing and sheep shearing in the Australian outback, to jumping en masse out of an airplane riding bikes, trikes, snow skis and body boards. Along the way, they meet some interesting and truly inspirational people, including Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham, the first wheelchair athlete to backflip his chair off the 60-foot high Gigant-ARamp, and X Games Gold medalist Cam Sinclair, who almost died performing the most dangerous trick in action sports, the double backflip, who tries it again for the first time on the Nitro tour.

Get ready to be inspired, shocked and laugh ‘til it hurts.

This is Nitro.

Thursday October 13  9.30pm on MTV