Anyone else watch Man vs Wild on Discovery Channel?

[Chado1]

My buddy just got me into it. Fucking amazing show this dude eats every type of animal you can think of while trying to survive in the most dangerous parts of the world..

[bryce]

My buddy just got me into it. Fucking amazing show this dude eats every type of animal you can think of while trying to survive in the most dangerous parts of the world..

Gnarly dude!

[Chado1]

Gnarly dude!

You watch it too? Awesome show so interesting....

[weazel079]

Enertaining, but Bear has help close if anything bad happens. Very different show. I like it.

[***THA FIX***]

you should survivor man

[Chado1]

Enertaining, but Bear has help close if anything bad happens. Very different show. I like it.

Yea thats what the disclaimer states but everything else is real though right?

[jcheckers]

Chado, How do you keep your wife from sliding
off that kitchin table?

[BettorsChat]

Seems like I heard a lot of it is BS

[Chado1]

Seems like I heard a lot of it is BS

Whats BS?

[insidethe8thpol]

Whats BS?

When Bear Grylls battles nature on Discovery Channel's Man vs. Wild, the 33-year-old survival expert doesn't always come out on top. But at least now viewers will know when that happens.

Following an investigation by the U.K.'s Channel 4 -- which also broadcasts the reality series under the title Born Survivor: Bear Grylls -- Discovery Channel has decided to air re-edited versions of Man vs. Wild to acknowledge that some scenes in the unscripted series are staged, The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday.

Discovery Channel aired four straight first-season episodes of Man vs. Wild on Monday night, all of which featured a disclaimer that ran at the beginning and in the middle of the show.

"Bear Grylls is trained in extreme survival techniques," reads the disclaimer, according to The Reporter. "He and the crew receive support when they are in potentially life-threatening situations, as required by health and safety regulations. Professional advice should be always be sought before entering any dangerous environment."


In addition, Discovery Channel is also implementing a voiceover during segments of the re-edited episodes in which viewers were originally led to believe Grylls didn't receive any off-camera assistance, according to The Reporter. For example, an episode set in the Scottish Highlands showed Grylls eating a rabbit he claimed to have caught in a trap.

"My trap didn't catch anything overnight, but I've been brought a rabbit to tell you what to do if you're luckier than me," Grylls said in the voiceover, according to The Reporter.

A Discovery Channel team has been "working around the clock" in recent weeks to verify the truthfulness behind each of Man vs. Wild segment, according to The Reporter, which added additional episodes were still being edited as of Monday.

"If we found anything that wasn't natural to the environment, we have edited it out," a Discovery spokeswoman told The Reporter.

Production has already begun on Man vs. Wild's second season, according to The Reporter, with the first of three new two-hour episodes scheduled to air November 16. However second-season episodes will be "edited from the get-go" to highlight the production crew's role in assisting Grylls, according to The Reporter.

Rumors now are that all his friends now refer to him as 'Teddy Bear" Grylls

[Chado1]

Thanks for the response pol. Yea that disclaimer comes across the screen on every episode and states about the assistance he receives. However no matter what kind of help he gets or what kind of things are planted in scenes he still actually eats all kinds of animals regardless because it shows him eating it. Also when was this article printed? It talked about seasons one and two above I am pretty sure its in like season six right now so is this old? November?

[BigWeiner]

YouTube - Re: Man Vs. Wild, Bear Grylls is a Phony

[kbsooner21]

Man vs. Food is where it's at anyway. No fake shit there!

[insidethe8thpol]

Thanks for the response pol. Yea that disclaimer comes across the screen on every episode and states about the assistance he receives. However no matter what kind of help he gets or what kind of things are planted in scenes he still actually eats all kinds of animals regardless because it shows him eating it. Also when was this article printed? It talked about seasons one and two above I am pretty sure its in like season six right now so is this old? November?

The article was printed in 2007 as were alot of others talking about what they do and dont.

...an adviser to the show has disclosed that at one location where the adventurer claimed to be a “real life Robin-son Crusoe” trapped on “a desert island”, he was actually on an outlying part of the Hawaiian archipelago and spent nights at a motel.

On another occasion in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains where he was filmed biting off the head of a snake for breakfast and struggling for survival “with just a water bottle, a cup and a flint for making fire”, he actually slept some nights with the crew in a lodge fitted with television and internet access. The Pines Resort at Bass Lake is advertised as “a cosy getaway for families” with blueberry pancakes for breakfast.

In one episode Grylls was shown apparently building a Polynesian-style raft using only materials around him, including bamboo, hibiscus twine and palm leaves for a sail.

But according to Mark Weinert, an Oregon-based survival consultant brought in for the job, it was he who led the team that built the raft. It was then dismantled so that Grylls could be shown building it on camera.

[BettorsChat]

The article was printed in 2007 as were alot of others talking about what they do and dont.

...an adviser to the show has disclosed that at one location where the adventurer claimed to be a “real life Robin-son Crusoe” trapped on “a desert island”, he was actually on an outlying part of the Hawaiian archipelago and spent nights at a motel.

On another occasion in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains where he was filmed biting off the head of a snake for breakfast and struggling for survival “with just a water bottle, a cup and a flint for making fire”, he actually slept some nights with the crew in a lodge fitted with television and internet access. The Pines Resort at Bass Lake is advertised as “a cosy getaway for families” with blueberry pancakes for breakfast.

In one episode Grylls was shown apparently building a Polynesian-style raft using only materials around him, including bamboo, hibiscus twine and palm leaves for a sail.

But according to Mark Weinert, an Oregon-based survival consultant brought in for the job, it was he who led the team that built the raft. It was then dismantled so that Grylls could be shown building it on camera.

Some shows/channels will do anything to make a buck