Former Arnold Body Double is "Stuntdawg"!

Everybody remembers Peter Kent, right? He was the ballsy stunt double who went in place for Arnold in all those highly dangerous stunt scenes in movies such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and End Of Days.

Kent is now the leader of action-series 'Stuntdawgs'. The 13 part docu-series takes you on an adrenaline-loving trip through the world of movie stunt-making.  Each episode, a team of veteran stunt performers, technicians and riggers (known as "the dawgs"), puts a rookie through an impossible stunt.  From falls off skyscrapers to full body burns to crash-em-up car rolls, the dawgs reveal what it takes to concoct some of the movies' most spectacular stunts.

The stunts - or "gags" as insiders call them - are a shopping list of famous Hollywood movie action scenes like the famous motorcycle plunge from Terminator 2 and the car stunt from The Fast and the Furious. It also features recreations of stunts from more recent movies such as Freddie Vs Jason, xXx and another Kent/Schwarzenegger partnership, END OF DAYS.

Each show reveals the planning, science and execution that goes into each act. Watch as a rookie stuntwoman leaps off a high-rise and lands on her feet, a young stunt driver crashes through an RV and rolls his car down a city block, a stuntman races over a row of cars as they explode under his heels, and a stuntwoman skates on a chunk of metal down a steep track in an abandoned mine.

Many of the stunt performers on Stuntdawgs are rookies, "stuntpups" as Kent calls them. They've paid their dues working on small stunts, trained for the big ones, yet never had the chance to prove themselves in a big gag. Some cry, others ask for the blessing of the stunt co-ordinator, and many just need to gather themselves before the cameras can roll.

These spectacles are set-up to look real and dangerous. Yet, while these stunts are organized by industry veterans, no stunt is ever guaranteed to be safe, as you will see with the attempted recreation of the T2 motorcycle jump. The Dawgs walk a fine line and behind the bravado are people who love to live closer to the edge than most. Lives are always on the line and in the world of make-believe movies, it doesn't get any more real.

Peter Kent also reviews the highlights from the Stuntdawgs, while sharing a few insights about the stunt world, his own career as stunt double to Arnold Schwarzenegger and anecdotes from the show.

You can preview a teaser clip from episode 2, where Kent attempts to redo his famous T2 jump, only this time higher and longer. However, the best laid plans always seem to go wrong.

Kent revs a motorcycle off the face of a cliff, however, the crane loses control and nobody has any power over where the motorcycle goes, as it swings to and fro', along the cables, in a highly dangerous situation!

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In episode 3, Kent, who sustained bruising after a very close close call on the motorcycle stunt, and his team find that things go really wrong as they try to set up a stunt in which a car is supposed to plummet down a cliff and explode. This is another T2 stunt being brought back to life!

Episode 7 sees the dawgs attempt to do another Schwarzenegger stunt... this time from End Of Days. But we're not revealing too much! If you want to find out more about the Stuntdawgs, then you'll have to watch it! It's broadcasted on TMN and Movie Central. There's a tv schedule on the website... Stuntdawgs.com

Global Arnold Staff