''Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls'' is an American reality competition series hosted by adventurer and survivalist
Bear Grylls. The eight-episode series premiered on
NBC
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on July 8, 2013.
Format
Ten teams of two compete to survive in the wild of New Zealand with Bear Grylls as their guide. The teams will perform various tasks and missions as they battle unforgiving terrain: high mountains, glaciers, gorges, the rain forest, rivers and rapids. Each week Grylls will eliminate one team, and the last team remaining will win $500,000.
Contestants
Season 1 (2013)
Source:
Summary table
Tasks :
: Fire: make fire for the whole group.
: Food: make sure the whole group gets fed.
: Obstacle: make sure all the teams go through the obstacles safely and efficiently.
: Shelter: make sure every team has good shelter, and is dry, safe, and warm.
Result:
*Safe: Winners of the challenge, safe from elimination for the week, and win a trip to the feast pit.
*Low: Team judged to be poor performers.
*Out: Team eliminated
Development and production
In October 2012, NBC gave a
green-light
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Film industry
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for the production of eight episodes of the series. Auditions were held in December 2012 and January 2013 in nine cities in the U.S. The series was filmed in the
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
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International broadcast
Discovery International has purchased the rights to the series, to be aired on Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Channe ...
in 218 countries beginning in the third quarter of 2013.
Series overview
Episodes
See also
* Robinsonade
Robinsonade () is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel ''Robinson Crusoe'' by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply a ...
* :Works about survival skills
* ''Survivor'' (TV series)
References
External links
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*{{IMDb title, 2442494
Adventure reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
American adventure television series
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Works about survival skills
Television shows set in New Zealand
2013 American television series endings