So who here has seen "Survivorman"?

[McDeath_the_Mad]

I just discovered this show on OLN (Outdoor Life Network: Canada) after some buddies told me about it.

It's pretty damn cool! The premise is they drop this guy off in a survival situation for 7 days and he films himself surviving. Each situation has a theme, mountain biking and bike breaks in the middle of the Utah desert, snowmobile dies in the Arctic, etc.

They have made 9 episodes and the ones I have seen so far are:

- Artic Circle - Snow mobile dies
- Set adrift in the Carribean - Boat sinks and is on a life raft
- Utah Desert - Mountain Bike breaks
- I think it was the Mojave desert - Motorcycle dies
- Costa Rica - I missed the first 5 minutes so I'm not sure how he got there

It's pretty cool. There's no camera crew either, so when he's in "Survival Mode" he's moving around 5 little cameras and batteries. He's always complaining about setting up shots etc.

MtM

[St_Ides]

Great show. I've seen all the episodes, except the life raft one.

Of course, he's a little overdramatic in many of the voiceovers.

"If I get hurt, there's nobody around for miles, I have no way to get help."

Meanwhile, he's got an FRS radio on his hip, turned on, plus he's got a satellite phone back at camp (and a GPS too I'm sure, just in case the crew has to search for him). Doesn't detract that much from the show for me...

I think the show was started after he did a couple pieces on the (Canadian) Discovery Channel (on the Daily Planet, or perhaps @Discovery.ca... I don't remember how long ago he did it), about surviving in the north.

Of course, there's not too many climates he hasn't done survival in yet, so I can't see the show going on for too long. More of a mini-series than a series.

[Sgt.Pepper]

I've watched it and enjoy it. I do agree that he does overdo the dangers a bit. For instance in the raft one he kept mentioning the sharks, in the artic it was the polar bears etc. Overall though, it's pretty good. I caught one wrap-up show where he discussed some of situations. It was a nice wrap-up, but was in the same style of the show. I would have preffered more bloopers and behind the scene stuff. They did show some bloopers, which were pretty amusing.

[Greywolf73]

Is this the same show where the guy is out in the Arctic and is stranded when his dog sled team runs away? Or maybe that was a National Geographic special. Was pretty good though-poor guy had to keep setting up his cameras every few hundred feet or so to document his progress.

[Sgt.Pepper]

In Survivorman, for the artic setting, he was on a snowmobile. He just went off in one direciton until it stopped, that's when the seven days began. He stripped it of anything useful then moved on from there.