'Alone in the Wild' (Discovery UK) is, in the humble opinion of 'thetvreviewguy', the best piece of 'reality tv' in the last year. Send a celeb or semi-celeb into the wild; in this case, soi-disant alpha-males undercover reporter Donal McIntyre and former SAS soldier Chris Ryan go into the jungle in Guyana and it just pisses rain for most of the week that they're there. They have to hunt or find their own food, forget 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here', this is the real deal. Being dumped in a rainforest in Guyana, the guys endure snakes, midges, hunger, thirst and, for a few days, solitude. Now, 'thetvreviewguy' will not be impressed if it turns out that McIntyre and Ryan had access to a local Hilton but Ryan seems a hardy sort who, as he noted, has never spent this long in the jungle before unarmed. Highly effective yet simple TV, this is quality stuff; the jungle is brought into the living room...Ryan, as is to be expected, has very little problem managing his stay but McIntyre finds it a little more difficult, admitting to camera that he hasn't spent much of his life alone and will find it an interesting psychological experiment. They both, unsurprisingly, survive and find it to be a worthwhile experience. Do all your extreme camping with your feet up by watching 'Alone in the Wild'... makes you feel alive again before switching on to news about the Euro crisis and impending end of the world economy as we know it.
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