I'm not sure if anyone else is hooked on this show but I love it. The guy has to survive by himself for 7 days in extreme environments around the world and he has to film the whole thing himself too. Great show. It's on the science channel on Fridays at 8:00pm, 12:00pm, and 4:00am.
http://www.survivorman.ca/

11/29/2005 3:28:23 PM

I love it.

11/29/2005 4:36:06 PM

Teh winz. I've been DVRing it for some time now.

11/29/2005 5:38:57 PM

The last of the new episodes premier on Dec 9th and Dec 16th!

I can't wait for the DVD Box set to come out.

[Edited on November 29, 2005 at 6:32 PM. Reason : ]

11/29/2005 6:30:20 PM

New episode this Friday at 9!

12/7/2005 9:35:59 PM

i dont have the science channel someone find me a torrent of it

12/8/2005 2:07:25 AM

That wasn't a new episode!


Next week's looks good, though. Lost at sea on a raft.

12/9/2005 11:41:55 PM

dammit people, help me out, i dont have that fancy satelite tv

12/9/2005 11:49:02 PM

I like this show, I've only seen the one where he's in the Canadian woods

12/9/2005 11:51:25 PM

doesnt someone have the ability to dvr it and convert it to divx for me?

12/9/2005 11:53:38 PM

remind me and next time i'll tape it on my computer and convert it for you

12/9/2005 11:55:59 PM

it's on again now. 12:00


and again at 4am



http://www.survivorman.ca/episodes.html
I've only seen a couple.

Episode 2 - Arizona Desert - Sonoran Desert
Broken down dirtbike in the middle of the desert. Very dry and hot during the day, very dry and cold during the night. Big emphasis on water here, but there's lots of good food floating around. Grasshoppers, cacti, all other types of bugs. Lots of freaky wildlife at nighttime.

Episode 3 - Costa Rican Jungle
I only saw the last half of this one. Way too hot and humid for a crazy Canadian. Lots of walking. Lots of freaky wildlife to watch out for.

Episode 8 - Plane Crash in the Canadian Forest
Cold as shit, snowy, but he gets great use out of his broken airplane. Too bad he "broke" his left arm. (Just a simulated injury to add some realism.) There's lots of snow for drinking, but there's very little wildlife for eating. Manages to track down 1 rabbit for his only meal of the week. Mostly just huddles up in the cockpit of the plane and waits out the cold.

[Edited on December 10, 2005 at 12:08 AM. Reason : ]

12/10/2005 12:01:18 AM

Hey Nerdchick,
Has the Accord you bought from me worked out well for you?

12/11/2005 3:15:41 AM

its an awesome show
i have been watching it for months, i cant wait for the new episodes, im getting tired of the reruns.

dude is insane, the episode at the north pole was just crazy

12/12/2005 11:41:09 AM

so... how about recording it for me?

12/12/2005 2:24:58 PM

I can DVR, but have no means for converting them. If you want to chip in for the $300 eyeTV hookup for my PowerBook, I'll gladly give you all the copies. OR, you could order the DVDs yourself.

https://secure.advantage.com/ryekasport/order.html

12/12/2005 2:32:55 PM

^thats much better than the damn $20-$25 channels like discovery, science, and history charge PER episode via commercials.

12/12/2005 2:38:24 PM

Yeah, definitely. That's only like $25.00 US.

12/12/2005 2:46:25 PM

just get a tv tuner for your computer

12/12/2005 3:32:15 PM

ive never even seen one episode, im not going to buy the whole dvd when for all i know i could hate it

i have a tv turner for my computer, just no access to science channel

[Edited on December 12, 2005 at 3:59 PM. Reason : its 36.46 USD, shipped to US]

12/12/2005 3:57:46 PM

Saw the lost at sea episode last night. It was crazy!

12/18/2005 8:48:14 PM

This guy is a fucking hack

12/18/2005 11:34:28 PM

fucking shit, i forgot to dvr that episode

12/19/2005 1:26:28 PM

the lost at sea episode was disappointing...the friday one in the swamps of georgia looks pretty awesome though...

12/19/2005 3:53:44 PM

i finally got digital cable and dvr

12/19/2005 5:53:26 PM

I was pretty disappointed with the Lost at Sea episode. Seemed like he cheated a lot in that one. Didn't ride out the storm, talked constantly about the safety boat, left after 6 days... (not like I wouldn't have done the same, though)

It was cool to hear about how far his boat drifted and stuff like that, but as for surviving on the life raft, it seemed to be merely "drink fresh water when you can, otherwise wait and wait and wait and wait..." I suppose there's not much else you can do on the raft. Can't cook, can't hunt, can't do anything except stay out of the water.

12/19/2005 6:58:32 PM

its the only one ive ever seen, does it get better?

12/19/2005 10:06:42 PM

Well, since that was the 9th or 10th episode, you'd have to say that it WAS better.

12/19/2005 10:16:02 PM

i cant think of one disappointing episode

its one of my favorite shows

12/20/2005 10:46:33 AM

Georgian Swamp episode on right now. It'll replay several times over the next day - midnight, 4am...

Looks fun so far.

12/23/2005 9:07:19 PM

On in 10 minutes:

Quote :

"Episode 5 - Canadian Arctic Pond Inlet, on the Northern reaches of Baffin Island, provides one of the most challenging landscapes our planet has to offer. Over 700km north of the Arctic Circle, it sits amidst grinding, ever-shifting flows of sea-ice where polar-bears roam in search of meat. In this severe climate, Les has been equipped with a bare minimum of raw materials to aid him for the next 7 days - a hunk of uncooked seal-liver, some oil-rich blubber for heat, a seal-hook, three matches, and a knife."

http://survivorman.ca/images/photos/arctic1.jpg


http://survivorman.ca/images/photos/arctic2.jpg

[Edited on January 6, 2006 at 9:57 PM. Reason : ]

1/6/2006 9:56:50 PM

Quote :

"i cant think of one disappointing episode its one of my favorite shows"

the lost at sea one because he gave up so easily when a storm came in

1/6/2006 10:02:37 PM

Well, while making a show, he has to stay grounded in reality. It wouldn't be much of a show anymore if he died or was otherwise permanently incapacitated. He knows what he's doing.

1/6/2006 10:59:47 PM

Seems that they are airing them on the regular Discovery Channel now.

1/11/2006 11:04:54 PM

last night's episode on the discovery channel was only 30 mins, instead of the 1hr episodes that are on the science channel



Has anyone ordered the DVDs from the link above? I ordered them on Dec 27th but they haven't come in the mail yet.

1/12/2006 12:33:07 PM

yea

i saw that episode last night for the first time

definitely seemed like it should have been an hour

looked to be a decent show tho

1/12/2006 12:34:49 PM

Quote :

"the lost at sea "

I STILL HAVE NOT SEEN THIS EPISODE

1/12/2006 12:52:44 PM

Does it bother anyone else how Les eats? I mean, I know he's stranded and trying to survive and all that....but he seems like he chomps SO loudly on purpose. He does it in every episode too. I love the show but can't stand the parts where he eats!

1/23/2006 1:56:16 PM

eh i dunno

he makes everything he eats seem like it would taste kind of good

1/23/2006 2:01:01 PM

i dont mind how he eats, if i was trying to survive i'd probably make a lot of noise eating, too

1/23/2006 2:07:18 PM

He does it to the extreme. It's rather unnessecary.

1/24/2006 11:28:19 PM

bttt

Les is the man.


I have the season 1 DVD and I highly recommend it.

4/14/2006 5:22:39 AM

The 1 hour episodes on Science channel are so much better than the 30 min crap they show on discovery.

4/14/2006 8:48:12 AM

yea you cant compress a 7-day survival into 30 minutes!

"Les survives on very little"

4/14/2006 9:14:44 AM