Talk:Man vs. Wild

message: How much does Bear Grylls make for Man vs Wild? I have been wondering that, is it in the area of $1 million USD per year or what? ~~R.B. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.207.204.123 (talk) 01:54, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Haven't seen it disclosed anywhere. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 05:32, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Nor have I.  I ran into how much he charges for his speaking engagements (it's now in the article on Bear Grylls), but not how much he makes for the show. -- Rei 18:01, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How much does Bear Grylls make for Man vs Wild? 

message: Isn't it a hoax to pretend you doing things as they occur, that are staged. I think the Hoax category is valid. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 20:10, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In a manner of speaking it could be said that parts of the show could be qualify as hoaxes... but to classify the entirety of the show as a hoax is, to me, a bit silly. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 20:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If they tell you that some events are staged, then it isn't a hoax. Simple logic. --Haizum    μολὼν λαβέ 04:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ummm... the first airing they didn't tell you it was staged.  It was a big deal when it came out and they ended up editing those episodes over it. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 05:59, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so when you watch a television drama and it turns out everyone on the show is an actor, it is a hoax? It isn't. I'm just assuming we're using a dictionary definition of what "hoax" means (something intended to deceive or defraud) and not some evolving language, magical, Wikipedia definition of what "hoax" means. --Haizum    μολὼν λαβέ 05:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Uh, no. By definition, a drama is fiction - we know they are just actors. Man vs Wild was portrayed as a documentary, not fiction. Grundle2600 04:59, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Hoaxes 

message: I was reading Bear's blog and he says in it that the new episodes that have begun airing in November 2007 are a continuation of season 2.  In the Wikipedia article though, they are listed as a third season.  Should this be changed?  Also mentioned is that the episodes are now two hours long to allow for more detail in the shows and to do the exotic locations justice.  That probably should be added to the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nebulousecho (talk • contribs) 03:30, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This upcoming DVD releases of "season 2" has 13 episodes! If this DVD release is accurate about the seasons, then the article here is wrong. Grundle2600 (talk) 20:49, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute over number of seasons? 

message: Man vs. Wild seems to violate WP:NPOV. Criticism makes up most of the article. I don't even see much other information about the show, except Criticism. There should be more information on what the show is about, who airs it, and what lessons it tries to teach. Marcusmax (talk) 02:07, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good it looks much better. Marcusmax (talk) 00:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Man vs. Wild NPOV 

message: The article is tagged as having peacock words.  I read it over a dozen times with intent to find & replace the offending phrases, but my search yielded fewer results than Googling my own one-man Vaudeville performances from the mid-Seventies.  I'm going to remove this from the article in a few days; shout at me if you think there is a remaining occurrence.
I too searched through the article to try and locate peacock words or phrases as outlined by the wikipedia guidelines and found nothing that would qualify the entry for being "peacocked".  I concur that this category should be removed, but I think it fair to give the time you allotted to give anyone a chance to prove otherwise.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.4.197.253 (talk) 06:04, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, take it off.  It may have gotten fixed without anyone thinking to remove it. ---J.S  (T/C/WRE) 01:37, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Peacocks Exinct?

message: Why did the airdates change? 89.27.27.212 (talk) 11:29, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New airdates for season 5 

message: Sarugbyfan has added a section:
"Get your Opinion
Bear Grylls has been both praised and criticized. Find out more about him as well the actual show, "Man vs. Wild" to get your own, truthful opinion on him. Recommendations: Discovery.com, Youtube.com, and watch the show yourself.
Some YouTube videos that might interest you:   
Promotion video of the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tdlh4zlhjY
Bear Grylls eating gross foods: 1) Bear eating giant larva: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuB3kr3ckYE 2) Bear drinks camel poo juice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOvF4n7-5F4 3) Bear Eats A live Frog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6boGhYWOX9k 4) Short summary of what Bear Grylls has eaten on the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSw7uwx3Mrc
Interesting survival techniques: 1) Bear meets camel:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YsSINT75c 2) Bear searches for hidden water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOhL0b_YYrE
Accusations of fraud in the show: 1) A shot during the show at Kilauea Volcano three miles away from the highway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is 
which, to me, is very un-wikipediac.  People can find this material by following the many and varied links in the article.  This is not what the wiki is for. Ratagonia (talk) 01:05, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Get your Opinion section - unencyclopedic???  REQUEST FOR COMMENT 

message: WHile comparing Les Stroud to Bear, someone made the following claim... 
.``..Man vs. Wild is similar to a competing Discovery Channel series Survivorman. In that show, however, the survival expert (Les Stroud) is not accompanied by a camera crew, but has a significant production and safety crew nearby that he communicates with at least once each day...```. I`d like a reference for the claim that Les communicates with his safety crew at least once a day. Since I believe that he doesn`t communicate with them. From what I know, they set up camp many kilometers away from where they drop him, and perform fly overs once a day. I`m not really sure you`d call that communication, or at least it`d be more informative to say fly overs in a helicopter instread of communicate`... since that kind of implies he has a phone or something.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.85.245.11 (talk) 20:39, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand why people compare the shows like one is better than the other.  They are both great shows in their own rights.  Bear makes it interesting by showing you all the cool parts, interesting facts, and important tips, while being in the actual wild as well.  He doesn't pretend to be in a real survival situation, that would be ridiculous, who would actually believe that?  Les's show is completely different.  He's not interested in showing you all the interesting things about the location he is in, he wants to show you a documentary of his experience being alone and without many amenities.  Bear's show is like "mythbusters", showing you the explosions and results while being quiet about the data and hard science.  Les's show is more like "daily planet", being more in-depth with less entertainment.  It's like comparing spaghetti with milk.--moeburn (talk) 05:34, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  reference to Les Stroud 

message: I noticed that the "background" section stated that citation was needed for that claim that some situations were staged. Would this be a viable source? http://tvwatch.people.com/2008/03/20/man-vs-wild-star-apologizes-for-staged-show/ Though it is a rather short article from People Magazine, it still seems to cover the claim. --24.7.84.247 (talk) 06:16, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible reference for "Background" section

message: I'd really like to see a section discussing the camera placement.  From what i can tell he wears one around his arm, but sometimes you'll see him climbing up a cliff or waterfall with a cameraman beneath him, then they cut to him climbing over the top and the camera man is somehow ahead of him? 128.196.196.167 (talk) 07:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: While I think it would be interesting (and would go under the header of "Production"), I'm not sure it's really necessary. He definitely uses a camera crew, there's no secret about that, so it's only logical that there would be more than one cameraman at some points in time (in your specific example, one below him and one above the falls). It would, I think, be a good idea to note somewhere in the article how many cameramen he typically has with him at any given time, but I'm not sure if we'd be able to find a source for that. --132 13:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears in the credits of the episode that I just watched he only had 1 cameraman with him so we could say that the size of his camera crew varies depending on the location?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.135.115.67 (talk) 09:11, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Camera placement

message: I'm particularly annoyed that the criticism section of this article is longer than all the other parts combined.  While it could no doubt be countered with a "praise" blurb or two, I'd be more interested in seeing some 1 sentence episode summaries (similar to movie wiki pages).  Right now it just seems like it's too much quoted bashing and not enough about the actual show.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.135.115.203 (talk) 06:48, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The criticism section does need to be trimmed down, but we shouldn't start adding in summaries for each episode just to balance it out, especially since we already have an article devoted to that at List of Man vs. Wild episodes. What we should be doing is trimming the criticism section down to the bare information, expanding the other sections of this article, creating new sections for things like production, filming, regional variations (pointing out the differences between the US and the UK), reception, and future plans. --132 15:19, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding an episode synopsis section

message: I have removed the  and  tags from the article. I read the article twice and found no weasel words. Also,  is not necessary and somewhat extreme for this article, which currently is of promising quality. Needs some expansion and copyediting perhaps, but a rewrite is definitely unwarranted. Open to any opinions. Best, ANGCHENRUI Talk♨ 12:25, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Tagging of article with {{tl|Peacock}} and {{tl|Cleanup-rewrite}} 

message: I think that this page should be semi-protected as looking at the history there have been numerous vandalism edits by unregistered users. 
Colinmotox11 (talk) 23:37, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There hasn't been an edit in three days, there is no recent activity at all, let alone vandalism. See Wikipedia:Protection policy for info on when pages should be protected. Anyway, requests for page protection should be done at WP:RFPP, not the article's talk page. Xeworlebi (talk) 23:51, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

text: Pages are only protected for recent vandalism, which is not the case here, see Wikipedia:Protection policy for more info. Xeworlebi (talk) 16:24, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

text: But there is no vandalism now. So there is nothing to "stop". This protection is entirely pointless and I've requested it to be removed. Xeworlebi (talk) 22:47, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-Protection? 

message: In his official twitter proffile he wrote that He is the host of Man Vs Wild, Born Survivor and Ultimate Survival by separating each of them as each of them unique. But the wikipage the main name is Man vs Wild but Born Survivor and Ultimate Survival and others are alternative names? Why? Can anybody explain? --Gentthaqi (talk) 00:36, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: His shows?

message: The show is made by a British company. Why is the US title used instead of the 'native' British title of "Born Survivor: Bear Grylls"?
:Yeah I wondered that too. Just like Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, country of origin should take presidency. --Nutthida (talk) 14:10, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why American "Man vs Wild" and not British "Born Survivor"? 

message: The 6th reference is a dead link. Blackbombchu (talk) 01:04, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deak link 

message: Links 18, 19 and 20 lead to nowhere.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.65.178.40 (talk) 14:14, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead references 

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