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Thread #140501   Message #3230721
Posted By: Bill D
28-Sep-11 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: The problem with watching too much TV
Subject: RE: BS: The problem with watching too much TV
" ..that Man Alone Against The Wilderness?"

Rap... there are two of those. One makes the point..often... that there IS no camera crew with him. He carries his own cameras. (He does have some preparations for extreme emergency, but in several episodes they had trouble finding him, even with no emergency.)

The other is that British guy who doesn't pick up a stick until the camera crew gets a good angle! I think they film leaping across rushing waterfalls several times until it looks unstaged..(ahh...Bear Grylls)"In some of the earlier episodes, Man vs. Wild / Born Survivor was criticized by some sources for misleading viewers about some of the situations in which Grylls finds himself. Discovery and Channel 4 television subsequently pledged production and editing transparency and clarification related to the criticism."

I object to the one called "Manhunter", in which a team of two on foot tries to elude Manhunter and his partner on horses and get to a designated finish line. Camera crews follow BOTH teams, and the 2 who are on the run, trying to hide in the bushes, are being filmed by crews who, presumably, are NOT hiding in the bushes.

"Hey Mike...let's cut down this gully, I think I see the sun glinting off a camera lens."