Les Stroud is my tv hero. I would much rather watch a 'less entertaining' Les Stroud then Bear Grylls.
exactly!!! there happens to be a reason why les stroud does the opposite of bear grylls when he's out filming survivorman(I.E., not running everywhere as fast as he can, randomly eating animals raw, drinking his piss without purifying it, etc.).The guy is a phony and no one with a shred of outdoor experience and half a brain would do most of the stuff he does to get out of the situations he puts himself in. The whole show is a joke and it's nothing more than cheap entertainment. It should be on ABC right after ER and General Hospital.
i love when people call m v. W "fake." the show isn't a documentary. It is meant to demonstrate survival techniques in extreme situations - they even tell you that. He still ate a sheep's heart, drank his own piss, gutted and crawled inside a camel, bit the head off a snake, etc, and that's what makes the show good. I don't give a shit if bear sleeps in a hotel.
Survivorman is awful. Les stroud is the ultimate buzz kill. He spends most of his time whining about how he misses his family or really wishes he was eating a steak. I want to shoot myself everytime i watch that show.