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This started tonight on 4. A wilderness survival show where the contestants are dropped into the wilderness and left to fend for themselves.

I loved the US version of this. Coincidentally I started with their series set in the Canadian woodlands too.

First impressions is that the brits seem a lot less prepared than the Americans. They were all ex-marines, woodland survival trainers, indigenous people who lived off the land. They all seemed to whip up proper structures very quickly too.

Finding it hard in this first episode to tie names to faces the way they’ve edited it all. It felt like it was only getting started when the episode ended.

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Didn’t watch it but read an article about it. It sounded dangerous because as you say they were all pretty unprepared for living in the wild. Did some bloke really have to be airlifted to hospital because he badly cut his leg with an axe?

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Yeah, after 4 hours. They do get 9 days training but they seem a lot more ‘everyday’ than the ones in the American version. I think the winner of it lasted something ridiculous like 60-70 days

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Watched a couple of the US series a while ago, entertaining stuff but wore myself out with the format quickly. Recharged now so looking forward to getting stuck in with this.

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My word the lad who is just whacking away and immediately hits his leg and has to leave

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Just realised the second episode is available now too

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Did you watch the arctic one? That one is pretty amazing. Winner gets a million bucks, but they need to survive 100 days.

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First one I watched! Think it might have ruined the rest for me.

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I still really love it. I watch it weekly though, which might help.

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How do they stop them from eating poisonous berries stuff and dying?

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On the US one they are all already experts (or at least have a decent amount of experience) and then have a crash course on the local plants and also which animals can be hunted and by what method. They also have weekly medical checks.

I’m a little alarmed at how inexperienced the Brit version’s contestants sound. I guess there wasn’t a deep pool of applicants? The US one is really hard to get on to.

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There’s one contestant who’s some sort of “forest ranger” for want of a better word. Another has done round the world boat races, another who’s the owner of an expedition travel company (don’t know if he actually goes on the expeditions), one who’s a builder. Everyone else seems to be like student, fashion designer, some sort of finance job…I don’t actually know anything about the others. The show is quite poor at giving any personal details so far.

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That sounds… irresponsible

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