The Island with Bear Grylls

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The Island with Bear Grylls is a British reality television programme which premiered on Channel 4 on 5 May 2014 and ran for five series, plus a renamed sixth series and a spin-off series. Narrated by Bear Grylls, participants in the show are placed on remote uninhabited islands as a test of their survival skills. They are left completely alone, filming themselves, with only the clothes they are wearing and some basic tools and training. Initially pitched as an assessment of the capabilities of British men in the 21st century, the first series (2014) featured 13 male participants. Following accusations of sexism, the second series (2015) used two islands, with 14 women on one, and 14 men on the other. The third series (2016) featured eight men and eight women abandoned on opposite sides of a single island with the groups merging in episode 2. The fourth series (2017) focused primarily on age rather than gender and featured initially separate tribes of older (30- to 66-year-old) people versus...

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