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'''''Man vs. Wild''''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beargrylls.com |title=Bear Grylls' Official Site: Latest News |accessdate=2008-07-01 |work= |publisher= |date= |quote=...the last series of Man Vs Wild/Born Survivor...}}</ref> also called '''''Born Survivor: Bear Grylls'''''<ref>{{cite |
'''''Man vs. Wild''''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beargrylls.com |title=Bear Grylls' Official Site: Latest News |accessdate=2008-07-01 |work= |publisher= |date= |quote=...the last series of Man Vs Wild/Born Survivor...}}</ref> also called '''''Born Survivor: Bear Grylls'''''<ref>{{cite POOweb |url=http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/bornsurvivor/index.shtml |title=Born Survivor: Bear Grylls - Discovery Channel |accessdate=2008-07-01 |work= |publisher= |date= }}</ref> or '''''Ultimate Survival''''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ultimatesurvival.discoverychannel.nl |title=Ultimate Survival: Discovery Channel |accessdate=2008-07-01 |work= |publisher= |date= |language=Dutch}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/tv-schedule/?type=series&country_code=NL&channel_code=DBEN-H&series_id=137438 |title=TV Schedule: Discovery Channel - Ultimate Survival/Man vs. Wild |accessdate=2008-07-01 |work= publisher= |date= |language=Dutch/English}}</ref> is a survival television series hosted by [[Bear GrylPOOls]] on the [[Discovery Channel]]. In the [[United Kingdom]], the series is shown on both POOthe [[Discovery Channel]] and on [[Channel 4]]. The series is produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. The show was first broadcast on November 10, 2006 after airing a pilot episode titled ''The Rockies'' on October 27, 2006. Four seasons have currently aired with each being broken up into two parts with a few months break between each part. In a speciPOOal first aired on June 2, 2009, [[Will Ferrell]] joined Bear on a survival trip to Northern [[Sweden]].<ref name="ferrell">{{cite web |url=http://www.film.com/celebrities/will-ferrellPOO/story/ferrell-survives-man-vs-wild/27621586 |title=Will Ferrell |accessdaPOOte=2009-06-08}}</ref> Grylls also said he has been approached about doing a ''Man vs. Wild'' urban disaster 3-D feature film, an idea he said he would "really like to do."<ref>http://www.beargrylls.com/ask_bear.asp</ref> Ben Stiller has also signed on for an episode later this year as the season finale.<ref>http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/08/11/ben_stiller_to_appear_on_man_vs_wild__1</ref> Bear Grylls haPOOs signed on to showcase urban survival techniques in a new Discovery show called Worst-Case scenario, set to premiere in May on the network.<ref>http://press.discovery.com/us/dsc/press-releases/2010/bear-grylls-worst-case-scenario/</ref> |
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==Background== |
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[[Image:Bear Grylls Survivor world map ver2.png|thumb|left|Episode locations in ''Man vs. Wild'' (updated Sep 2008).<br /> red – season 1, part 1<br /> blue – season 1, part 2<br /> green – season 2, part 1<br /> yellow – season 2, part 2<br /> orange – season 3, part 1]] |
[[Image:Bear Grylls Survivor world map ver2.png|thumb|left|Episode locations in ''Man vs. Wild'' (updated Sep 2008).<br /> red – season 1, part 1<br /> blue – season 1, part 2<br /> green – season 2, part 1<br /> yellow – season 2, part 2<br /> orange – season 3, part 1]] |
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The general format of each episode is the premise that Grylls is left stranded in a region. The episode documents his efforts to survive and find a way back to civilization, usually requiring an overnight shelter of some kind. Bear also tells about successful and failed survivals in the particular area which he is in. |
The general format of each episode is the premise that Grylls is left stranded in a region. The episode documents his efforts to survive and find a way back to civilization, usually requiring an overnight shelter of some kind. Bear also tells about successful and failed survivals in the particular area which he is in. |
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Each episode takes about one week to ten days to shoot. Before each show the crew does about a week of reconnaissance, followed by Bear Grylls doing a flyover of the terrain. Grylls then undergoes two days of intensive survival briefings. "I |
Each episode takes about one week to ten days to shoot. Before each show the crew does about a week of reconnaissance, followed by Bear Grylls doing a flyover of the terrain. Grylls then undergoes two days of intensive survival briefings. "I POOspend two days on location prior to dropping in – I go through all the safety and comms briefing as well as being briefed on local conditions, and flora and fauna by local rangers and a local bushcraft expert." He is followed on the program by a cameraman and a sound engineer, also with a safety consultPOOant. To show variousPOO survival situations, some aspects of the show are staged. <ref>[http://dsc.discovery.com/fansitPOOes/manvswild/q-and-a/q-and-a-03.html Discovery.com -- Filming info]</ref> Directors oversee location filming and the final edit of each program. Season One directors included Dominic Stobart, Scott Tankard and [[Mark Westcott]]. Bear Grylls said, "I suppose POOto bear in mind that this is a worst-case scenario show, and thereforePOO, of course things have to be planned. Otherwise, it would just be me in the wild and nothing happening, you know, ’cause textbook survival says you land, you get yourself comfortable, you wait for rescue, you don’t dPOOo anything. It would be a very boring show. The shoPOOw is how to deal if you fall into quick sand, if you get attacked by an alligator, if you have to make a raft. I get a really good briefing before we go. I know there’s a big river there, there’s gonna be a great cliff climb there, there’sPOO loads of snakes in those rocks, watch out for an alligator. So I do have a good idea of 80 percent of what’s gonna happen." Furthermore, contrary to onscreen presentation, his movements are rarely from Point A to Point B: "We plan it, if we’re doing different locations, sometimes we’ll have to do a whole crew move and get a helicopter. Again, we’re talking huge distances sometimes. So we’ll use helis when we have to. They’ll go out three weeks ahead of me, and go, “That bit’s no good. Those rapids we thought are gonna be good are boring, but down there, it’s great.”<ref>[http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/06/24/bear-grylls-jennifer-lopez-tom-hanks-man-vs-wild/ Bear Grylls wants to take Jennifer Lopez and Tom Hanks into the wild], Entertainment Weekly, 2009-06-24</ref> |
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In April 2008, Grylls and |
In April 2008, Grylls and DiscoPOOvery released a book that includes survival tips from the TV show. |
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In June 2009, Grylls had a special co-host—Will Ferrell—in episode 41, the season 4 premiere called ''Men vs. Wild''.<ref name="ferrell" /> |
In June 2009, Grylls had a special co-host—Will Ferrell—in episode 41, the season 4 premiere called ''Men vs. Wild''.<ref name="ferrell" /> |
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| Man vs. Wild | |
|---|---|
| File:Man vs. Wild title screenshot.jpg Season 4 title screenshot of Man vs. Wild | |
| Starring | Bear Grylls |
| Narrated by | Bear Grylls |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 55 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes (without commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Discovery Channel |
| Release | October 27, 2006 – present |
Man vs. Wild,[1] also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls[2] or Ultimate Survival,[3][4] is a survival television series hosted by Bear GrylPOOls on the Discovery Channel. In the United Kingdom, the series is shown on both POOthe Discovery Channel and on Channel 4. The series is produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. The show was first broadcast on November 10, 2006 after airing a pilot episode titled The Rockies on October 27, 2006. Four seasons have currently aired with each being broken up into two parts with a few months break between each part. In a speciPOOal first aired on June 2, 2009, Will Ferrell joined Bear on a survival trip to Northern Sweden.[5] Grylls also said he has been approached about doing a Man vs. Wild urban disaster 3-D feature film, an idea he said he would "really like to do."[6] Ben Stiller has also signed on for an episode later this year as the season finale.[7] Bear Grylls haPOOs signed on to showcase urban survival techniques in a new Discovery show called Worst-Case scenario, set to premiere in May on the network.[8]
==Background==POO
red – season 1, part 1
blue – season 1, part 2
green – season 2, part 1
yellow – season 2, part 2
orange – season 3, part 1
The general format of each episode is the premise that Grylls is left stranded in a region. The episode documents his efforts to survive and find a way back to civilization, usually requiring an overnight shelter of some kind. Bear also tells about successful and failed survivals in the particular area which he is in.
Each episode takes about one week to ten days to shoot. Before each show the crew does about a week of reconnaissance, followed by Bear Grylls doing a flyover of the terrain. Grylls then undergoes two days of intensive survival briefings. "I POOspend two days on location prior to dropping in – I go through all the safety and comms briefing as well as being briefed on local conditions, and flora and fauna by local rangers and a local bushcraft expert." He is followed on the program by a cameraman and a sound engineer, also with a safety consultPOOant. To show variousPOO survival situations, some aspects of the show are staged. [9] Directors oversee location filming and the final edit of each program. Season One directors included Dominic Stobart, Scott Tankard and Mark Westcott. Bear Grylls said, "I suppose POOto bear in mind that this is a worst-case scenario show, and thereforePOO, of course things have to be planned. Otherwise, it would just be me in the wild and nothing happening, you know, ’cause textbook survival says you land, you get yourself comfortable, you wait for rescue, you don’t dPOOo anything. It would be a very boring show. The shoPOOw is how to deal if you fall into quick sand, if you get attacked by an alligator, if you have to make a raft. I get a really good briefing before we go. I know there’s a big river there, there’s gonna be a great cliff climb there, there’sPOO loads of snakes in those rocks, watch out for an alligator. So I do have a good idea of 80 percent of what’s gonna happen." Furthermore, contrary to onscreen presentation, his movements are rarely from Point A to Point B: "We plan it, if we’re doing different locations, sometimes we’ll have to do a whole crew move and get a helicopter. Again, we’re talking huge distances sometimes. So we’ll use helis when we have to. They’ll go out three weeks ahead of me, and go, “That bit’s no good. Those rapids we thought are gonna be good are boring, but down there, it’s great.”[10] In April 2008, Grylls and DiscoPOOvery released a book that includes survival tips from the TV show. In June 2009, Grylls had a special co-host—Will Ferrell—in episode 41, the season 4 premiere called Men vs. Wild.[5]
Episodes
There have been four seasons of Man Vs. Wild. Season four began airing during the summer of 2009.
| Season | Episodes | Season Premiere | Season Finale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 – part 1 | 9 | October 27, 2006 | December 29, 2006 | |
| 1 – part 2 | 7 | June 15, 2007 | July 20, 2007 | |
| 2 – part 1 | 7 | November 9, 2007 | December 21, 2007 | |
| 2 – part 2 | 6 | May 2, 2008 | June 6, 2008 | |
| 3 – part 1 | 5 | August 6, 2008 | September 17, 2008 | |
| 3 – part 2 | 7 | January 12, 2009 | February 23, 2009 | |
| 4 – part 1 | 7 | June 2, 2009 | September 23, 2009 | |
| 4 – part 2 | 6 | January 6, 2010 | TBA | |
Criticism and Response
Criticism
The show has been criticized for fabricating some of the situations in which Grylls finds himself. In 2006 a Born Survivor crew member admitted that some scenes in episodes were misleading, indicating to viewers that Grylls was stranded in the wild alone when he was not. [11] The issue of scenes being manipulated was also raised by Mark Weinert, a U.S. survival consultant. One example he gave was of a raft allegedly being put together by team members before being taken apart so Grylls could be filmed building it. Other scenes that have been criticized include:
- Grylls was shown trying to lasso "wild" mustang in the Sierra Nevada that were in fact tame and had been hired from a trekking station nearby.[12]
- A scene where Grylls was purported to have escaped from an active volcano by leaping across lava, avoiding poisonous sulphur dioxide gas, was actually enhanced with special effects, using hot coal and smoke machines.[13][14]
- Similarly, another episode gave viewers the impression that Grylls "was a 'real life Robinson Crusoe' stuck on a desert island", while in reality he was on an outlying part of the Hawaiian archipelago and retired to a motel at night.[15][16]
Show's response to criticism with changes
In response to these early criticisms, Discovery and Channel 4 aired re-edited episodes, removing elements that were too planned, with a fresh voice-over and a preceding announcement pointing out that some situations are "presented to Bear to show the viewer how to survive".
Following criticism in the media in July 2007 about elements of the show's first season, British Channel 4 temporarily suspended the show's second season for a few weeks, promising clarification and transparency in the production and editing of the show.[17] The channel responded to criticism of the show by pointing out that that Grylls conducted all of his own stunts, many of which put him in perilous conditions, and that the show was not a documentary, but a "how-to" guide to "basic survival techniques in extreme environments."[18] The channel issued a statement saying that:
"The programme explicitly does not claim that presenter Bear Grylls' experience is one of unaided solo survival. For example, he often directly addresses the production team, including the cameraman, making it clear he is receiving an element of back-up."[19]
The Discovery Channel also responded to the criticism by announcing that future airings would be edited (including a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode) so as not to imply to viewers that Grylls was left alone to survive during production of the show. Since then, Grylls has stated on camera when he has received assistance in order to demonstrate survival tactics or when he is exiting the setting for a period of time due to safety concerns. Grylls also tells the cameras filming behind the scenes footage how the film crew sometimes assists him in order to film certain sequences.[20][21][22][23]
The Discovery Channel also released behind the scenes footage showing how sequences of Man Vs. Wild are filmed. In the footage, while setting up a scene, each production crew member is introduced and their role is briefly explained, including a safety consultant who served in the Royal Marines. During the scenes, Bear Grylls tells how each crew members' role ensures his safety while he explains survival tactics. The footage includes open discussion over safety and other precautions.
On August 3, 2007, Grylls posted on his blog that the "press accusations of motels and stagings in the show that have been doing the rounds, all I can say is they don't always tell the full story, but that's life and part of being in the public eye I guess."[24] In response to allegations of spending nights in local hotels as opposed to staying in the shelters built during filming, Grylls clarifies in an article in the December 3 issue of People Magazine that:
“Episodes take about ten days to tape, explains Grylls: “The night stuff [shown on camera] is all done for real. But when I’m not filming I stay with the crew in some sort of base camp." Episodes now clarify when Grylls gets support from his crew and when situations are staged, “We should have done that from the start,” he says. “The more you see, the more real it feels.””[25]
The new shows and DVDs contain a notice stating that Bear will receive help from the camera crew on occasion, that he will in certain situations use provided safety equipment to minimize risks, and that he will sometimes deliberately put himself in perilous situations to demonstrate survival techniques. Bear Grylls is specifically credited as "Presenter" to highlight his role in presenting survival techniques to the viewer.
See also
- Survivorman, a Canadian survival-themed series hosted by Les Stroud.
References
- ^ "Bear Grylls' Official Site: Latest News". Retrieved 2008-07-01.
...the last series of Man Vs Wild/Born Survivor...
- ^ Template:Cite POOweb
- ^ "Ultimate Survival: Discovery Channel" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ "TV Schedule: Discovery Channel - Ultimate Survival/Man vs. Wild". publisher= (in Dutch/English). Retrieved 2008-07-01.
{{cite web}}: Missing pipe in:|work=(help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ a b "Will Ferrell".
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|accessdaPOOte=ignored (help) - ^ http://www.beargrylls.com/ask_bear.asp
- ^ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/08/11/ben_stiller_to_appear_on_man_vs_wild__1
- ^ http://press.discovery.com/us/dsc/press-releases/2010/bear-grylls-worst-case-scenario/
- ^ Discovery.com -- Filming info
- ^ Bear Grylls wants to take Jennifer Lopez and Tom Hanks into the wild, Entertainment Weekly, 2009-06-24
- ^ Deacon, Michael, "How a 19th-century Scot conquered the Outback" Telegraph.co.uk, 30 May 2008
- ^ "How Bear Grylls the Born Survivor roughed it – in hotels". Mail Online. 2007-07-23. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ Booth, Robert, and Gadher, Dipesh, "‘Coal tipped into volcano’ for fake Grylls film" TimesOnline.co.uk, 12 August 2007
- ^ "Bear Grylls 'faked toxic volcanic fumes with a smoke machine' in new Born Survivor fake row" DailyMail.co.uk, 12 August 2007
- ^ "How Bear Grylls the Born Survivor roughed it – in hotels". Mail Online. 2007-07-23. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ Booth, Robert, "TV 'survival king' stayed in hotels" TimesOnline.co.uk, 22 July 2007
- ^ "Grylls series 'to be transparent'" BBC.co.uk, 24 July 2007
- ^ "How Bear Grylls the Born Survivor roughed it – in hotels". Mail Online. 2007-07-23. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ Survival show faces 'fake' claim, BBC News Online, Monday, 23 July, 2007
- ^ "Discovery 'Man vs. Wild' not so rough after all?". Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^ "Survival show faces 'fake' claim". BBC News. 2007-07-23. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Kaplan, Don (2007-07-24). "GRYLLS' THRILLS BOGUS: EXPERT". Retrieved 2007-09-13.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "'Wild' Series to Be 'Transparent' to Viewers". Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^ Sahara Filming Update, Bear's Blog, August 3, 2007
- ^ [1], People Magazine "Man VS Wild's Bear Grylls; A Force of Nature" By Johnny Dodd, December 3, 2007
External links
- Man vs. Wild Discovery Channel official site
- Man vs. Wild at IMDb
- Bear Grylls official website
- Bear Grylls personal blog
- Bear's photos on Picasaweb
- Review of Man vs. Wild Book at Letters On Pages
- 'Man Vs. Wild' Helps 9-Year-Old Utah Boy Survive Night In Woods Alone by The Huffington Post, June 23 2009
- ManVsWild in Russia
- ManvsWild en France
- [2]