Bear Grylls: Born Survivor/Man vs Wild

Dave!

Hey folks,

does anybody know when season 2 of Born Survivor starts on the Discovery channel (in Ireland)?

His website, http://www.beargrylls.com/ , says under 'latest news':

"Bear's Channel 4 series: 'Born Survivor: Bear Grylls', goes out in the UK, and season two of 'Man Vs Wild' airs in America. "

It doesn't give a date though But I have a reminder in my phone that it starts tomorrow... can't find where I got that date though!

Anybody know?

Cheers

Dave!

Nobody knows? Any fans of Bear's in the hizouse? He's a hero! Makes Ray Mears look like a fat boy scout!

Jesus Wept

Watched the first series, entertaining stuff


hmmm, Season 2 consists of 6 episodes and starts tonight (June 15th,on U.S TV).

They call it 'Man vs Wild' in the U.S (it has to be something vs something to make it sound exciting enough for the yanks )

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0883772/episodes#season-2


I wonder will he ever come to Ireland and try to survive

Rollo Tamasi

Bear is a hero
'And now, i'm going to bite down on this fish's neck, rapturing it's spline and sucking on it's spline juice, mmmmm'

Jesus Wept

mmm spine juice

Dave!

mmm elephant turd juice!!!



Cheers the Rigger, hopefully it'll be up on tv-links.co.uk soon.

EdgarAllenPoo

I can just picture what he'd end up drinking while trying to survive a Saturday night in Dublin city.

Dave!

I can't see him complaining about a bad pint, that's for sure!

Degsy

Bear Grylls ROCKS.."the last time i parachuted into africa i broke my back in three places..so this is gonna be hard!"

Ruu_Old

I have been starting to pick this up, watching one yesterday where he was in northern Kenya and telling the story of the lady being trampled to death by the elephants (at this point he was looking at a herd of elephants).

Running Bing

DaveMcG wrote:

Nobody knows? Any fans of Bear's in the hizouse? He's a hero! Makes Ray Mears look like a fat boy scout!

lol I used to love Ray Mear but you are right. Bear Grylls is a legend and his show is great, I love it.

EdgarAllenPoo

Where did he get the name "Bear" from?

Patricide

Degsy wrote:

Bear Grylls ROCKS.."the last time i parachuted into africa i broke my back in three places..so this is gonna be hard!"

Yea thats my fave quote from the whole thing. another class part was when he just cought a fish and was like theese are great raw you can even eat the scales he just starts chomping into it while its still wriggleing.

That guy makes steve irwin and rey mears look like posers.

daveg

Would highly recommend his book Facing the Frozen Ocean. Have a spare cpoy if anyone wants it?

http://www.amazon.com/Facing-Frozen-Ocean-Bear-Grylls/dp/1405041501

Dave!

GDM wrote:

Where did he get the name "Bear" from?

I think his first name is Edward.

Edward... Teddy... Teddy Bear... Bear...

sweetie

daveg wrote:

Would highly recommend his book Facing the Frozen Ocean. Have a spare cpoy if anyone wants it?

http://www.amazon.com/Facing-Frozen-Ocean-Bear-Grylls/dp/1405041501

yes please

lostexpectation

the haiwain (sp?) volcano one was interesting unusual landscape...


but he cheats cos he has tv crew with him, the american extreme sports guy would walk a stretch, place his camera go back a stretch and walk and do his bit to camera again.

EdgarAllenPoo

I do find it funny that he gets himself "stranded" and yet gets dropped into these places by helicopter, like he doesn't know where he's going. But still it's all good stuff.

Degsy

Check out "Survivorman" as well.Its been on Nat Geo(i think) and is definatly due a re-showing.The bloke in it is more grizzled than Bear and doesnt have a crew with him,he goes to glaciers,the north pole,american canyons,deserts,desert islands and i think rainforest.He allways manages to catch some animal as well although you can tell he's suffering!

Ger the man

Enjoyable stuff but its only a matter of time before he meets the same fate as Steve Irwin imo.

Degsy

Ger the man wrote:

Enjoyable stuff but its only a matter of time before he meets the same fate as Steve Irwin imo.

No doubt about it,he deliberatly takes unnecessary risks when there's no need.Several times i've watched him do stupid stuff like climb up 200 ft trees,jump over waterfalls and leap into icey lakes.It really does look like he's on a suicide mission...unless there's more in the way of a camera crew with him than he's letting on.

dodgey69

Originally Posted by daveg
Would highly recommend his book Facing the Frozen Ocean. Have a spare copy if anyone wants it?


Hi dave, just wondering if ya still have the spare book?

Bear Grylls is quality alright, only stumbled across him a while ago and have managed to see all 6 of his programs. very entertaining and informative although i couldn see myself climbing down the waterfalls!

Peter Collins

Ger the man wrote:

Enjoyable stuff but its only a matter of time before he meets the same fate as Steve Irwin imo.

But he's a survivor - that's the difference

WindSock

I want him to have my babies. and eat them.

BaZmO*

DaveMcG wrote:

Makes Ray Mears look like a fat boy scout!

He is a fat boy scout!!
I still like his shows though, mind you they're done at a slightly slower pace that BG's.

I love that quote about the broken back.

Ger the man

Peter Collins wrote:

But he's a survivor - that's the difference

Until nature gets its way in the end.

kronsington

really interesting series, i saw parts of the one in kenya very late last sunday night before i passed out.. scared the **** out of me as i am heading to ghana in a few weeks but at least i now know what to do if confronted by a lionness or rhino and also that if im feeling a bit thirsty, there's always some refreshment in some elephant crap.. the one in antarctica was pretty interesting too.. good work bear!

daveg

Sorry folks completely forgot about this thread. First to PM me and can collect in Galway can have the book.

Jesus Wept

Is this book still available?

I'm in Dublin, 'd compensate you for postage though!

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Bear is drinking his own urine now, fair play to him, lol.

Dave!

Did ye see any of the new season? I only saw the one in Iceland... Very good stuff. Was a bit disappointed to see him actually cooking his food in this one though What a wuss! Although in fairness to him, he only dipped the goat's eyeball in boiling water to clean it off, so it wasnt actually cooked Don't wanna be eating no dirty eyeball! Eww!

If you're opposed to piracy as much as I am, then make sure you avoid the torrent websites, because the episodes are on them! :mad: damn pirates

Jesus Wept

lol yea, watchin Season 2, Episode 4.

He drank his own urine, didn't even boil it, so he is back on form after his nancy eyeballing boiling antics!

Dave!

FYI, the Mexico episode is on YouTube He ate a live scorpion, lol. Good call!

Gran Hermano

Must confess I'm enjoying season 2.

Some background info on Bear on Wikipedia.
(Usual caveats apply as it is wikipedia after all).

BaZmO*

Gran Hermano wrote:

(Usual caveats apply as it is wikipedia after all).

Indeed.

Wiki wrote:

The only alcoholic beverage he will consume is his own urine

pd101

I love this show watched the whole first series one sunday a few weeks ago

DadaKopf

It's entertainment, but it's all to staged. I like watching survival programs, but give me Ray Mears over Bear Grylls any day.

pd101

Did anyone see the bit in The Mail on Sunday yesterday about Bear Grylls. It talks about how when he killed and cooked a badger it was really a steak wrapped in a badger skin and when he was sleeping in the Rocky mountains the bear that came through his camp was actually a crew member in a bear suit. Also gives a few other examples s well cant think of them at the moment.

Degsy

pd101 wrote:

Did anyone see the bit in The Mail on Sunday yesterday about Bear Grylls. It talks about how when he killed and cooked a badger it was really a steak wrapped in a badger skin and when he was sleeping in the Rocky mountains the bear that came through his camp was actually a crew member in a bear suit. Also gives a few other examples s well cant think of them at the moment.

That he didnt parachute into trees..he was hauled up there by the crew,he didnt kill and eat a snake,he stays in hotels,the locations are usually far from remote and basicly the whole thing is a set-up.
The BBC are in trouble for setting up other shows and faking TV show results but they should really be closed down for Paddington Green and MacIntyre Undercover..two of the most blatently false shows masking as reality i'v ever seen.Down with this sort of thing!

The Sparrow

Anyone know when this series is shown over here? i haven`t seen any of it so am looking for season 1 repeats or whatever. Sounds like something I would like. I checked the Discovery UK website and the programme page lists it as being on Mondays at 10pm but its not! Is season 1 repeated anywhere?!

Gran Hermano

pd101 wrote:

Did anyone see the bit in The Mail on Sunday yesterday about Bear Grylls. It talks about how when he killed and cooked a badger it was really a steak wrapped in a badger skin and when he was sleeping in the Rocky mountains the bear that came through his camp was actually a crew member in a bear suit. Also gives a few other examples s well cant think of them at the moment.

The Sunday Times had an article on it the previous week, 22nd July
People need to realise it's a TV show and it's only entertainment,
I find it the perfect hangover TV

Looks like Bear is in a spot of bother with OFCOM as well according
to today's London Times

Ofcom has censured ITV for editing a programme to make it appear that a turtle was being roasted alive by Bear Grylls, the “survivalist”.
ITV breached broadcasting rules during a family show by showing Grylls apparently biting the head off a live frog and cooking a turtle in its shell on an open fire.
Edited clips from the former SAS soldier’s Channel 4 show, Born Survivor, were included in the ITV1 satirical show, Harry Hill’s TV Burp.

lostexpectation

Gran Hermano wrote:

People need to realise it's a TV show and it's only entertainment,
I find it the perfect hangover TV

yeah he could do the show and saw well this is how I would do it...but still be honest...

why lie, you replay the show as it is, it would be fine but why lie

he hasn't replied himself has he?

Vegeta

fake or not bear grylls is a hard ass but the show reeks as being fake as fook. They shouldn't have gone for a "I'm stuck and now need to escape" type show they should have gone for a "This is what to do when stranded" type show. Then the fakeness would be acceptable

Dave!

What do ye think of the new series? It started on Discovery last week AFAIK. It can be watched here: http://www.youtube.com/user/soiryx

I watched the first 3 episodes.... very good

So far he's eaten a snake, spider, beetle, frog, goat's testicle (ew)....... can't think of the rest!

Sahara looked like a difficult f*cking terrain! Just looking at those sand dunes made my legs weak, I can only imagine walking up them all day.

In that episode he showed how to skin and gut a camel -- and then use the empty area where the guts used to be, as shelter! :eek:

Ya gotta feel for the camera crew, they're some hard f*ckers too. One of them had to climb up a sandstone cliff along with Bear.

smashey

Thanks for the heads up Dave.

Ruu_Old

Just seen the Sahara desert one a few minutes ago on Discovery. *hides inside camel* :eek: The intestines were just...lovely.

pd101

This series is very good so far and next weeks episode in Patagonia looks like agood one too. I see at the start of each show theres a message to remind people that some situations are set up to demenstrate different things to the viewers.

Conor108

This isn't on C4 is it?