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The Island with Bear Grylls: Women’s Island / Men’s Island

Bear Grylls is back on SBS next week with not one, but two hours of The Island.

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Bear Grylls fans, rejoice.

He is back on SBS next week with not one, but two hours of The Island with Bear Grylls.

Episodes featuring women stranded on an island for survival will air at 8:30pm Monday followed by the men at 9:30pm.

These aired in the UK in April.

Bear Grylls explores the survival instincts and behaviour of 14 women stranded on a remote, uninhabited Pacific island. Left with just the clothes they stand up in and a few basic tools, they’re been given no food and just a day’s supply of drinking water.

Like their counterparts on the male island, these women will be utterly alone for six weeks, left to film everything themselves. So when stripped of the luxuries and conveniences of 21st century living, will these women have the skills and mental strength to survive and rival the male islanders?

Episode One:
As the island comes into sight, it’s a far cry from the postcard vision of paradise some of the women had been expecting: more mud than sand and dense, unforgiving jungle right up to the water’s edge.

The strong Pacific currents mean the group are forced to abandon the safety of Bear’s boat and swim ashore. With sunset fast approaching the group kick into survival mode and make camp in the jungle – at the mercy of deadly creatures and voracious sandflies – their first lesson…that nature bites back.

In the ultimate survival experiment, Bear Grylls abandons 14 British men on a remote desert island in the Pacific with just the clothes they stand up in and a few basic tools.

They will be completely alone, filming everything themselves.

In this second series, the survival challenge will be harder and longer than before, as the men attempt to survive entirely on their own wits for six weeks during the height of the tropical storm season.

Episode One:
From the very beginning the men face a life and death struggle, as the fierce currents of the Pacific Ocean force Bear to drop them 75 metres off the island. The men have no choice but to jump ship and make a desperate swim through the violent swells onto a treacherous, rocky coastline.

Once Bear has left, the 14 men are on their own. With only three hours until nightfall they must find a safe place to spend their first night away from the deadly scorpions, snakes and caiman crocodile.

8:30pm / 9:30pm Monday August 3rd on SBS.

One Response

  1. Awesome show. The women are very entertaining.
    Just don’t watch the American version… terrible… the men just sit around discussing things.

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