# Expedition with Steve Backshall

Expedition with Steve Backshall is a TV nature adventure documentary hosted by naturalist and explorer Steve Backshall.

## Production

The show was adopted by PBS during a Fremantle deal. The UK channel Dave rebooted it essentially for an initial 4 episodes, but was extended to 6. After a pre-air date deal, the French channel France Television bought the rights to air it in their country.

## Expedition: Unpacked

This spin-off series was commissioned in 2021, going behind the stories of their original episodes.

## Episodes
### Season 1

| No. | Title | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) |
| 1 | "Oman: Lost Canyon" | 21 July 2019 (2019-07-21) | N/A |
| Steve sets foot in the deepest (400m) canyon in Saudi Arabia. ||||
| 2 | "Bhutan: White Water" | 28 July 2019 (2019-07-28) | N/A |
| Steve Backshall kayaks the uncharted waters of a wild river, seeking help from the Bhudist Monastery. ||||
| 3 | "Suriname: Lost World" | 29 January 2020 (2020-01-29) | N/A |
| Encountering unknown animals in the jungle, Steve is in the Guiana Shield. ||||
| 4 | "Suriname: Ghost River" | 20 May 2020 (2020-05-20) | N/A |
| The team explores a surprising natural scene in a concealed, natural world locked away for generations. ||||
| 5 | "Borneo: Dark Shadow" | 12 February 2020 (2020-02-12) | N/A |
| The team rewrites history with rediscovered treasures in Indonesian Borneo. ||||
| 6 | "Oman: Desert Fortress" | 27 May 2020 (2020-05-27) | N/A |
| Steve finds one of the world’s rarest animals while he and a team of rock climbers are in southern Oman. ||||
| 7 | "Arctic: Frozen Frontier" | 20 January 2020 (2020-01-20) | N/A |
| Steve kayaks the biggest fjord in the world during the spring melt in Greenland. ||||
| 8 | "Mexico: Maya Underworlds" | 26 July 2020 (2020-07-26) | N/A |
| Steve finds new artefacts when he crawls through a cave in subterranean Mexico. ||||
| 9 | "Arctic: Ice Mountain" | 15 September 2019 (2019-09-15) | N/A |
| Steve leads a mission to the summit of a large mountain in Greenland. ||||
| 10 | "Mexico: Flooded Cave" | 5 February 2020 (2020-02-05) | N/A |
| Steve and the team push themselves beyond capacity with a cave dive in Mexico. ||||

### Season 2

| No. | Title | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) |
| 11 | "Kamchatka: Expedition Grizzly River" | 28 November 2021 (2021-11-28) | N/A |
| Steve returns after a year to kayak the dangerous Kronotsky river with his team and elude the Russian grizzlies. ||||
| 12 | "Saudi Arabia: Expedition Volcanic Underworld" | 5 December 2021 (2021-12-05) | N/A |
| Steve traces the lava tubes in Saudi Arabia with his team. ||||
| 13 | "Kyrgyzstan: Expedition Mountain Ghost" | 12 December 2021 (2021-12-12) | N/A |
| Steve helps a team of scientists track the snow leopard in hopes of protecting the environment it lives in. ||||
| 14 | "Gabon: Expedition Jungle Paradise" | 19 December 2021 (2021-12-19) | N/A |
| Steve heads to the Moukalaba Dou Dou national park to be guided through its natural scenery and see a population of chimps. ||||
| 15 | "Socorro: Expedition Shark Island" | 26 December 2021 (2021-12-26) | N/A |
| Steve helps a team of protectionists track and gather data on a gathering of Great White Sharks in hopes of protecting their declining numbers. ||||
| 16 | "Expedition Unseen" | 9 January 2022 (2022-01-09) | N/A |
| Steve winds up his year with 3 under-filmed new adventures at the places he had been this year. ||||

## Reception

In 2022, the programme was nominated for a Broadcast Award in the category Gamechanger Programme of the Year.
Katie Brooks of Birmingham Mail wrote, "Will inspire a new age of explorers."