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Following the recent success of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Netflix has set its next interactive series. The Internet network said today that You vs. Wild, an eight-episode interactive family series fronted by survival expert and TV veteran Bear Grylls, will premiere April 10. The streamer had ramped up its efforts in…

Bear Grylls calls National Geographic's Hostile Planet a story that's never been told showing life on the edges and how hard it really is. The six part series delves into the real stars, animals that have adapted to the cruelest evolutionary curveballs. Grylls, who serves as executive producer, host, and narrator of…

Running Wild with Bear Grylls will move to Nat Geo for its forthcoming season. The show, which ran for four seasons on NBC, sees a group of celebrity adventurers transported across remote locations in the U.S. and around the world, including the jagged cliffs of Sardinia; a massive glacier in Iceland; the deep jungles…

Amazon is bringing back Mark Burnett's endurance race competition format Eco-Challenge with a ten-episode order. The SVOD platform has commissioned Eco-Challenge 2019, to be hosted by Man Vs Wild and Running Wild star Bear Grylls and produced by MGM Television. The announcement comes three months after Burnett and…

EXCLUSIVE: Bear Grylls (Running Wild With Bear Grylls) has been tapped as host of National Geographic Channel’s upcoming docuseries Hostile Planet (working title), from Oscar-winning cinematographer and director Guillermo Navarro (Pan's Labyrinth), Emmy-nominated producer Martha Holmes (The Blue Planet) and Emmy…

Adventure TV staples Mark Burnett and Bear Grylls are partnering to bring back Eco-Challenge, the endurance race series that launched Burnett’s reality TV career and served as a precursor to his hit Survivor. The plan is for the new incarnation from Burnett-led MGM Television to select a TV partner and location with…

Shine TV announced today it was upping Tanya Shaw and Tim Whitwell from creative director and head of programming to managing director and creative director respectively. The moves come in the wake of current managing director Kelly Webb-Lamb to leave the company at the end of the year. Shaw was previously…

NBC announced this afternoon President Obama’s visit to Running Wild With Bear Grylls will air Thursday, December 17 at 10 PM. In terms of the presidential election cycle, the broadcast falls two days after CNN hosts the final GOP debate of the calendar year and three days after CBS’ Dem debate. Sadly, the visit was…

NBC and Electus said this morning that President Barack Obama will become the “first U.S. president to receive a crash course in survival techniques from Bear Grylls,” when he appears with Grylls in a special edition of Running Wild With Bear Grylls, during his visit to Alaska. Obama is traveling to Alaska for three…

NBC has ordered six episodes of The Island starring adventurer and survivalist Bear Grylls. Based on the hit UK series, it will follow 14 American men who are abandoned on a deserted island without the basics of contemporary everyday life. The social experiment is aimed at determining if they have what it takes to…

ITV has commissioned a new Bear Grylls adventure series. He will star in Mission Survive, in which he takes eight celebrities into the depths of one of the most unforgiving Central American rainforests, where they will be competing in a 12-day survival mission. Grylls will guide the celebrities on their punishing…

Bear Grylls, Channel 4 Explore ‘The Island Of Lost Blokes’ Bear Grylls is teaming up with the UK’s Channel 4 for documentary series The Island Of Lost Blokes. The show sends 12 male volunteers to a remote deserted island for four weeks and leaves them with a limited supply of food and water. Once they run out, the men…