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Brian Maier

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Anyone know what the camera and sound setup used on this show is.  The episode I just saw drops the host carrying a knife, flint, and water bottle along with a small crew right into the middle of a swamp and lets them find there way back to civilization. Like the Deadliest Catch it looks pretty demanding. We get to see what the host does for getting by but what about the crew?  Looks like a lot of fun.  Pete Lee was the mixer on the episode I watched.

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Here is a little more background about the show from wikipedia.

"Man vs. Wild is a survival television series on the Discovery Channel hosted by Bear Grylls. The series is produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. The show premiered on November 10, 2006 after airing a pilot episode entitled The Rockies on October 27, 2006. The program follows Grylls as he survives harsh conditions with minimal resources and finds his way back to civilization. The series is currently airing on Channel 4 in the UK and Discovery Channel Europe as Born Survivor: Bear Grylls.[1] Grylls is currently filming for the next season.

Man vs. Wild shows Grylls purposefully demonstrating more extreme methods of survival in harsh conditions. The program has shown him eating raw meat and live fish, staving off hypothermia after intentionally jumping in a frozen lake, and drinking the fluids of elephant feces and his own urine for hydration. The format of this show is similar to that of Survivorman, with the exception being that Survivorman is recorded by the host, while Grylls travels with a two-man camera crew during daylight. Grylls contends that the crew is "under very strict instructions not to get involved or help" unless he is in a fatal situation.[2]

The series accentuates the dramatic aspects of wilderness survival, as Grylls goes out of his way to demonstrate techniques usually required only under extremely dire circumstances. In advertisements for the upcoming Season Two of Man vs. Wild, the screen shows a disgusted Grylls eating an enormous grub while the announcer states, "Does Bear Grylls really need to do these things? Probably not. But you might."

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To me it's a rip off of survivorman. In survivorman, Les Stroud basically does the same thing, but he IS the crew. He carries the camera equipment himself, and shoots it all himself, making it much more demanding. In Man vs. Wild, it's the guy with a crew, which doesn't seem as authentic to me, although it is interesting. Survivorman was already out for a year or two before man vs wild

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