Bear Grylls Fired From Man vs Wild

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Sparknotes: Bear Grylls was fired after a contract dispute.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/13/entertainment-us-beargrylls-idUSBRE82C1FO20120313

'Man vs. Wild' star Bear Grylls fired by TV network

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Tue, Mar 13 2012

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bear Grylls, the British adventurer and star of survival show "Man vs. Wild", has been fired by U.S. cable television network Discovery Channel in a contract dispute.

Grylls, 37, who was dropped into hostile places to survive by eating insects, wading rapids and drinking his urine, has hosted the TV show since 2006, becoming a celebrity around the world.

But Discovery Channel said on Tuesday that "due to a continuing contractual dispute with Bear Grylls, Discovery has terminated all current productions with him."

A spokesman for Grylls said he and Discovery had been unable to reach agreement on new programming and had parted ways.

"Bear's goal has always been to make life-empowering shows for his many fans around the globe, and he has taken great risks to bring Discovery such award winning programming over seven seasons," said Heather Krug, publicist for the wilderness expert.

"Unfortunately, Bear and Discovery have not been able to come to mutual agreement on new programming, and he disagrees with Discovery's decision to terminate current productions. Bear has loved the 'Man vs. Wild' journey and looks forward to producing further cutting edge content again soon for his loyal audience."

The details of the dispute were unclear but trade publication The Hollywood Reporter quoted industry sources as saying it revolved around two unannounced projects for which Grylls was contracted.

The sixth and most recent season of "Man Vs. Wild" was broadcast on Discovery in July and August 2011. It featured one episode in which Grylls was joined in a remote part of Iceland by actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

Other episodes have seen Grylls dropped by parachute into jungles and deserts, surviving for days by eating snakes, sleeping in snow holes and wrapping a urine-soaked t-shirt around his head to combat dehydration.

"Man vs. Wild", is broadcast in Britain as "Born Survivor: Bear Grylls" and shown in some 200 countries around the world.

Grylls climbed Mt Everest at the age of 23 and served for three years in Britain's elite Special Air Service, training in parachuting, jungle warfare and combat survival.

He also has found fame as a motivational speaker and written several books, including teenage fiction and a best-selling autobiography.

(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

 
i love articles that you think you will learn something from, but find that its only the same piece of information repeated over and over again with nothing new. should have just read the fucking title
 
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YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS.

PROBABLY THE BEST THING HUMANITY HAS EVER CREATED GOING DOWN BECAUSE TWO PARTIES CANNOT AGREE OVER HOW TO SHARE THE HUNDREDS BILLIONS OF REVENUE?

ITS LIKE THE NFL LOCKOUT ALL OVER AGAIN, JUST WITH A LOT MORE AT STAKE.

BEAR FUCKING GRYLLS

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AND IT WAS ACTUALLY TOUGH TO FIND AT LEAST A FEW BEAR GRYLLS MEME WITHOUT THE OBVIOUS PUNCHLINE.
 
Im glad, I hate that guy

Survivor man for the win. he filmed his own footy, was alone, and had to retire because it was destroying him after 3 years

 
^^ you guys. obviously he had his team and didnt spend all this time out there and had counselors and stuff, but his show is so much more entertaining than survivor man. and bear as a person is 10 times funnier and unkonowingly hilarious. with that being said you have to be trolling.

 
I still think he's a fucking boss however silly he was made out to be by the media. The Chief Scout is no fraud.
 
Watch what you say, you never know if he's watching and decides to fly a plane into your buildings.
 
i wish i could come up with something clever to say but i just can't stop thinking about him drinking his own piss
 
The article I read about this news ended with them saying they met with Grylls at his mansion where he filmed all of his episodes from. He got the news when he was filling his 233rd jar of piss. When he realized he was severing ties with Discovery, he waved his hands over the 233 jars of piss and said "What do I do with all this?"

Took me a sec to realize that was a joke..
 
I heard they dropped the show because they picked up neature walks instead

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what i took from this thread:

1. piss-related jokes

2. survivorman is better

3. 9/11 jokes are taken way too seriously

4. quick, everyone invest in Bear Grylls Piss Bottling Co. or GPIS
 
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thanks guys. But don't worry...I'll be drinking my pee again soon!
 
Umm, actually he did make it into the British SAS and served with them, so I think he's already paid his dues, and doesn't really have anything to prove. You have to be a mental and physical monster to even have a chance at British Special Air Service. He's just having fun making TV shows outside nowadays. Sick gig if you ask me.
 
I think a lot of the hate comes from how in the show he "pretended" to be all badass. Dude is still a boss, but in terms of a TV show, he wasnt a survivorman.
 
He wasn't trying to be a "survivorman", that wasn't the purpose of the show. Bear gets so much hate because he has a crew and isn't stranded surviving when that's not even the intent of the show. Man vs Wild is to show you how to survive in certain situations, and teach you shit that you may need to use if you somehow get lost in buttfuck no where and have to piss in you're face to survive. If you want to see some hippy fuck eat grass and jerk off to antelopes bucking each other go watch Survivorman. If you want to see a badass beat the fuck out of innocent animals watch Bear.
 
Idk man, when you portray a show as being a real life survival show, but then you get life jacket to cross a raging stream or airlifted to hotels after the camera ends, really cant set people off to the show.
 
Well if you don't like the show, simply don't fucking watch it. People are just so high on their opinions...so just stfu.
 
Yea I can definitly understand that. It just upsets me when people automatically assume his show is a joke and that he has no idea what he's talking about simply because he has a crew with him.
 
I dont think its a joke, Bear is a fuckin boss and Id kill to have half the knowledge. My roomates would get all blazed and watch it sode after sode. It is def more entertaining than survivor man too! Its the whole deception thing that gets me.
 
bear gryll's personal info regarding what he's done before man vs wild is quite impressive. I highly recommend escape to the legion...even bear has a lot of trouble with that one.

As for man vs wild/survivorman....the thing that bothered me the most about survivorman was 1 simple thing. You know all those long, distant shots of him crossing a field in the distance? Think about him walking out there, setting up the camera, walking across it's field of vision, then walking all the way back to get the equipment. Suddenly that show seems horrendously stupid because you realize he's walked 3x the distance necessary to get a 10 second shot of himself.

....plus it was annoying that he'd just hole up somewhere after 2 hours, then do nothing but complain for 5 days.
 
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