Personally I'm of a mind to ask the persons making the accusations to back their shit up... Then prove their own show to be more real than Grylls' series, which one can really only do by broadcasting each episode in real time, nonstop from start to conclusion.

Grylls kicks ass, in ways that my sorry uneducated self can only dream of if I were stuck in the situations he throws himself into.

New extreme sport: Pterodactyl skeleton para gliding.

Watch Survivorman.

I still love the show whether parts of it are faked or not. I secretly hope to be able to get myself out of quicksand using his technique.

I have. Both shows have merits, but Grylls' is more entertaining. Not only that, but I have yet to see proof that Survivorman is as authentic as it claims. Let's face it, folks, it IS television after all. Some things are just too pretty and convenient to have happened the way they are shown in both shows.

i'm a fan of this show myself. i haven't heard of these nights in motels but i have noticed deceptions in the actual show. when he attempts dangerous stunts i've noticed safety tools that he said he never had in the first place. like a harness and carabiner when traversing a rope line or a life jacket under his shirt when roughing the rapids.

this doesn't take too much away from the show for me but i wish he wouldn't try to hide it from us.

many of the scenes do look "filmed",
you were really aware that in "survivorman"
the dude was filming his own shit.
this guy..
a bit too self hyped.
i keep wondering when he's going to say crikey.
though, you'd probably say he's use a stingray barb for his own tracheotomy.
angioplasty?
still,
i just caught it and enjoyed it.
but i missed last week's,
did he use the spork or the polarbear as the lavacanoe?

AMEN. Now that man is hardcore. No camera crew just him in the wild lugging around 50lbs. of camera gear while surviving for 7 freakin days. Les Stroud is THE MAN. And he looks like a normal guy you would run into on the street besides.

I watch his shows. I do wonder about some of his techniques. Disagree with some of them.

But, he was a member of the British SAS. Those dudes are bad ass. In 1996, while doing a practice pachute jump, he ended up breaking his back. Two years later, he climbed Mount Everest.

Maybe he spends the occaisional night indoors. But the broken backed, Mount Everest climbing motherfucker probably earned it.

I prefer Survivorman too. Even if he plays that harmonica.

I'd love to see a survival-off between Les and Bear.

Whoa. I'd pay to see that... They are on the same network...

I had heard all that too. Bear made me a believer when he "harvested" water from a pile of elephant dung. That's right, surviving off of elephant shitwater.

*shudder*

You know what, I'd just be dead.

i fucking love MAN VS. WILD. i have wondered how strictly he sticks to the rules of the conceit but i'm with the cooler king here: he still climbs limbless trees with no rope, eats gnarly looking grubs for protein and drinks his own piss when necessary.

i'm no survivalist - but i feel like, after banking a couple of seasons of this show, i WOULD be slightly more prepared should my plane go down in the amazon...

YOU MEAN NOT EVERYTHING ON TV IS REAL?!?!?!

LOL

I can't imagine why any of these people accusing him of using hotels/resorts would care. It is T.V. not real life. He is still going through the techniques and such. The point is to educate and entertain. He does both, who cares if he has a nice bed at night.

I vividly recall him biting into a live fish like a taco... it was HORRIBLE. He is the man.