The Island with Bear Grylls
| The Island with Bear Grylls | |
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| Starring | Bear Grylls |
| Narrated by | Bear Grylls |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series |
Regular series: 3 (1 upcoming) Celebrity series: 1 |
| No. of episodes |
Regular series: 20 (as of 28 March 2016) Celebrity series: 4 (as of 9 October 2016) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Bear Grylls Ben Mitchell Delbert Shoopman Tim Whitwell |
| Location(s) | Isla Gibraleón and Isla San Telmo, Pearl Islands, Panama |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) |
Shine Television Bear Grylls Ventures |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 5 May 2014 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Island with Bear Grylls is a British reality television series which premiered on Channel 4 on 5 May 2014. Three series have aired, in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and a fourth is currently in progress. Narrated by Bear Grylls, it features participants placed on remote uninhabited Pacific islands as a test of their survival skills. They are left completely alone, filming themselves, and with only the clothes they were wearing and some basic tools and training. Pitched as an assessment of the capabilities of British men in the 21st Century, the first series featured thirteen male participants. Following accusations of sexism, the second series used two islands, with 14 men on one, and 14 women on the other.
On 28 March 2016 on the same day as the series 3 premiere, Channel 4 announced that they are looking for people to apply for series 4 of The Island which will air in 2017. A celebrity version also took place as part of a charity campaign for Stand Up to Cancer UK in September 2016.
In promoting the first series, the show was pitched as a challenge for modern men to see if they can survive when marooned on a Pacific Island armed only with minimal tools and their own initiative. According to Bear Grylls, masculinity is in crisis, and he is interested to see if men can survive stripped of the luxuries of 21st century living, and the show is therefore also a social experiment to see if man can recapture his primeval instincts.
In the second series, following complaints about the absence of women in the first series, two groups, 14 men and 14 women, were left on two separate islands. In the third series, two groups of eight men and eight women were left at opposite ends of the same island, with neither group knowing of the other's presence.
For the first series, the participants had to survive for one month. For the second series, this was extended to six weeks.
On 23 May 2014, it was announced that The Island has been recommissioned for a second series to air in 2015. In the second series, the men and women were featured on separate episodes on consecutive nights each week.
The first series was filmed on an uninhabited Pacific island, Isla Gibraleón, which is one of the Pearl Islands off the coast of Panama. The island has an 8-kilometre (5.0-mile) coastline, 5 beaches, a mangrove swamp, and is covered with jungle. The mangrove swamp is located on the east coast of the island where the men were dropped off, and the main sandy beach is on the west coast where the men set camp.
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