There's a brand new show for hardcore survivors!

[gretagreen]

If other survival shows seem too staged or cheesy for you need to check this great new documentary series called "I Survived" on the Biography Channel on Mondays at 9pm ET. I work for Bio so I got to preview some episodes and I saw one where this guy gets trapped in his car in the middle of a blizzard for 2 weeks! You hear the story from the survivor directly and you find out how they managed to make it through. Just from that one episode I found what exactly you should do in those scenarios. Not only do you learn but you get to see them triumph at the end. One particularly inspiring moment is when he is about to give up after 1.5 weeks and is about to write a letter to his family for when they find his body. But at the last minute he decides not to since it would make him really lose all hope. Instead he decides to fight even harder to stay alive. If you want to know more about the show or preview clips you can at http://www.biography.com/isurvived/ . Does this sound like something you guys would be interested in watching?
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[Rick]

In answer to "I Shouldn't Be Alive"? It will depend on the format and how it's presented. Sure, I'll watch it. Personal stories are always good. If it's real and believable it should be good. I watch reruns of Survivor Man so why not?

[crashdive123]

I'll watch it. Might be fun to critique it on the forum. Hope for Biography's sake it doesn't get added to the same sticky with Survivor Man and Man vs Wild.

[Aurelius95]

I shouldn't be alive is a pretty good show. What amazes me is that if most of the people had decent kits and were prepared with equipment/knowledge, more than likely their tale wouldn't be so harrowing. Like the boy scouts who went down the canyon without enough water, a map or a trail. Seems like a little prevention could have prevented it.

All that to say, who knows how many times I've escaped a disaster without even knowing it? Just glad to be here!

[canid]

i also liked extreme survival and world of survival by ray mears, which featured accounts of true to life situations and people. anybody see the real heroes of telemark? great account of what those men went through.

[WildGoth]

oh my god no more agruements of survival shows we tore this place up before cause of les and bear

[canid]

who's agruing?

[Alpine_Sapper]

oh my god no more agruements of survival shows we tore this place up before cause of les and bear

we haven't seen the show yet.

[Sarge47]

Here's an idea for one of your episodes; 2 guys decide to go out into the Canadian wilderness during the winter season for 30 days with nothing more than their knives & the clothes on their backs. They refuse to listen to the wise advice of other, more experienced, hands have to turn back after only 13 days but to cover their embarrassment, attempt to sell their group as a valid expedition team....oh, wait...sorry, that's already been done.

Here's one, get a really good looking English guy who used to be in the SAS to show that it's really okay to drink your own pee and how easy it is to live in the outdoors while all the time he sneaks off to stay in motels at the end of the days shooting...aww, crap! Somebody beat you too that one to! If I ever get a chance to watch your program I will, but remember; there's a reason we're called "The Wolf-Pack"!

[Teacher]

I love these shows! I get to use them to show my students what NOT TO DO and how a little planning can prevent a whole lot of problems later.

[crashdive123]

Oops. Went to watch tonights show and realized.....I don't get the Biography Channel.

[Ridge Wolf]

The biography channel has a limited audience.. Why? I have seen the advertisements on TV for that show.. (on other channels). TV shows tend to be 'hollywoodized'.. editing and programming what the producers think the audience wants to see, (second guessing) I have very little interest in TV shows unless they are relevant news programs. A show of this sort would not interest me.. Just as Survivorman doesn't interest me.. I have a suspicion that his methods are idiotic in that he goes out there alone tempting fate. At least Bear Grills has people around him in case something goes wrong. That is less of an agravation.

[crashdive123]

I was actually looking forward to checking it out. I think last nights expisode was going to be accounts from a survivor of a sinking ferry where the crew just abandoned ship and left the passengers and the survivor of a home invasion. Didn't see it, so don't know how well done it was, but I think the idea at least accentuates that you can be placed in a survival situation any place and any time.

[beerrunner13]

I watched it last night, yes I have bio on my dish package. There were 3 segments one was indeed two ladies who ended up in a life boat after thier ferry boat hit a rock and sunk, another was a woman who was raped and kidnaped and managed to escape and how shw talked to her cartor and got him to trust her and th last was a man who was attacked by his crackhead neighbor had his throat slashed and drove him self to the hospital.

It was OK I won't go out of my way to watch it again,they kept jumping back and forth between stories. Definetly not a how to survive show, more like a this happened tp me and I am still alive. I rate it one milk dud

[Tahyo]

I don't think anyone with any good sense would buy into any of these survivalist shows. I watched a couple episodes when they first came out and just shook my head in disbelief. Here's a link to something that I find interesting.
Not sure if it has been posted before. I couldn't find it if it was.
Man vs. Wild fraud

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cXtBTWk4Atw

[Ridge Wolf]

I don't think anyone with any good sense would buy into any of these survivalist shows. I watched a couple episodes when they first came out and just shook my head in disbelief. Here's a link to something that I find interesting.
Not sure if it has been posted before. I couldn't find it if it was.
Man vs. Wild fraud

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cXtBTWk4Atw

I watched the youtube link without sound.. didn't need to hear what was going on... My thought?: "I thought so".. Sheesh!! and I had thought Bear was legit all along.

[Rick]

Oh, Greta! I watched "I Survived" last night. The Christine and Heidi/Debbie/Jim episode. More accurately, I watched part of it. What is up with the format? One segment started up then it hopped to a second segment without finishing the first. What the ...? Where did the first one go? When it launched into the third leaving the first and second segments hanging I said "No. no. no. Enough Already!" I changed channels and didn't look back. Frankly, it was a yawner. A ho-hum sort of show that was on the order of watching paint dry. It wanted me to remember the characters and layout of the different segments like I even cared. Psssst, I didn't. Not gonna happen. My take was I survived part of the show.

[beerrunner13]

Yep wste of time, never again

[mbarnatl]

Most shows on tv are getting to be a waste of time. Back in Feb. I listen to a podcast on The WildBeat. The program asks how mass media might be affecting people's interest in getting into the wilderness. The podcast "Scared Indoors, part 1" and "Scared indoors, part 2".

[Alpine_Sapper]

Most shows on tv are getting to be a waste of time. Back in Feb. I listen to a podcast on The WildBeat. The program asks how mass media might be affecting people's interest in getting into the wilderness. The podcast "Scared Indoors, part 1" and "Scared indoors, part 2".

lol. Mass media? The sheer mind dumbing boredom should drive most people outdoors.