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Household names endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process. There are no votes, and no eliminations - just survival. These celebrities, who are so used to being in the spotlight, quickly learn the meaning of "no guts, no glory" - and no glam.

Each week on this show, a new pair of strangers will face the ultimate survival challenge: to survive together for 21 days in some of the world's harshest environments with no food, no water, no tools ... and no clothes.

This is a spinoff featuring 12 former Naked and Afraid survivalists who are dropped for a potential 40 days and 40 nights.

A raw survival competition series where 16 lone wolves must outlast each other in the Alaskan wilderness in an attempt to win 1 million dollars. There is only one rule in this cut throat game: they must be a part of a team to win.

Race Across the World will pit pairs of travellers against each other in a race to reach the Far East without taking a single flight, with no smartphone in sight. Each contestant will only have the cash equivalent of an air fare to their destination to pay for their overland travel. If they run out, they'll need to earn more.

Four celebs, 24 countries, zero VIP treatment. With no phones or flights allowed, famous faces and family pairs must get from Africa to the Arctic - by any means necessary.

For the first time ever, 12 battle-tested survivalists take on a scorched, apocalyptic wasteland where they must scavenge ruins to survive in Naked and Afraid: Apocalypse. In locations long abandoned by humans, the survivalists face the franchise's toughest challenge yet as they endure extreme heat and drought as well as unpredictable lions, elephants, black mambas and more without food, water and clothing. Four teams are dropped into forgotten corners of South Africa - spanning a ghost town, a vehicle junkyard, a cemetery, and even a mine shaft - where they must scavenge the wreckage for resources. In a franchise-first, survivalists will not be extracted but must escape this wasteland and find their way back to civilization at the end of the challenge. All the while, they must also battle relentless threats from apex predators, endure punishing heat and navigate constant dangers from rusted metal and broken glass.

Eight of the most battle-tested survivalists from NAKED AND AFRAID attempt to endure 21 days completely SOLO in some of the most remote and harshest environments in the world. With no one to lean on for help, their success depends solely on their own ingenuity, skills and will to survive. Enduring 21 days naked with a partner is hard enough. Enduring 21 days solo will test the most experienced survivalists in the world - and bring many to their knees.

Have you ever been traveling and gone for a short hike only to find yourself completely lost? Host Bear Grylls shares his wealth of knowledge, demonstrating local survival techniques as he strands himself in popular tourist destinations and makes his way back to civilization.

This is a reality series which sees castaways' survival skills being put to the test. Bear Grylls leaves thirteen British men on a remote, uninhabited Pacific island for a month completely alone with only the clothes they're wearing and some basic tools.

Dropped into one of the most punishing locations ever attempted - Montana's windswept and snow-covered Rocky Mountains - these elite survivalists will be tested like never before. Their quest to survive will demand knowledge, teamwork, and mental toughness that only the most accomplished NAKED AND AFRAID XL survivalists possess.

Alone is TV's most extreme and uncompromising survival experiment: the ultimate test of endurance and ingenuity, in one of the most beautiful but challenging landscapes on earth.

From the creators of HISTORY's show Alone comes a series where 3 strangers attempt to endure 30 days in a remote location with no tools or modern amenities, just the clothes on their backs & an untouched fallen animal. Faced with punishing weather, relentless predators, and their differing survival styles, it'll take all their ingenuity and stamina to work together & survive in Alone: The Beast.

Alone: The Skills Challenge pits 3 former Alone participants head-to-head to complete incredible bushcraft builds using only basic tools and the natural resources around them. Their goal: to prove who has the ingenuity, experience and wilderness skills to craft the most unbelievable survival build. Alone participants who will judge the builds.

Castaways is a revolutionary series testing the human need for companionship under extreme circumstances as each individual learns there are other castaways out there but are unaware of how many, their locations or when they will be rescued. This visually stunning, new reality series follows 12 diverse individuals as they're dropped alone throughout various islets in Indonesia and challenged to survive among washed-up luggage, scattered resources and abandoned structures. The only way to leave the remote islands is to persevere long enough to be rescued or to quit. As dramatic situations unfold on an expanse of islands in the South Pacific, the series flashes back to the real lives of each participant in documentary fashion, demonstrating haunting parallels to the lives they left behind.

Imagine being thrown into the wilderness, do you think you could survive? Experts think that having basic survival skills such as finding food, shelter, water and finding help are important.

Naked and Afraid veterans take on the most intense challenge yet - surviving 21 days completely and utterly alone. While each survivalist returns to the challenge for a different reason - some to avenge a past performance, others to honor loved ones - all share the same will to overcome their fear of failure, outlast this ultimate test of survival and prove they can do it all without help from anyone else.

A bunch of clueless kidults are put through their paces at a wilderness survival retreat to try and kickstart them into standing on their own two feet. There's no running water, no parents, and, worst of all, no Wi-Fi.

Forged in Fire: Knife or Death features fearless competitors as they race against the clock putting their blades and blade-wielding skills through a grueling gauntlet of challenges such as slicing through flying watermelons, hacking through massive ice blocks and severing various types of ropes, tubes, metals and item-filled crates.

Twelve famous faces embark on one of the toughest tests of their lives, for Stand Up To Cancer. And Ant Middleton and his instructors are making no allowances for their celebrity status.

Survivorman follows outdoor enthusiast and survival expert Les Stroud as he is abandoned for a week in a remote location with no supplies - no food, no fresh water, and no matches. While stranded in the middle of nowhere Les must document his experience with his unique one-person camera rig and 50 pounds of camera equipment.

For years the Raney family has helped novice homesteaders around the country save their homesteads from brink of failure and helped to bring their dreams of living off the grid to life. Now, inspired by years' worth of rescues, Marty Raney will attempt his greatest rescue of all - his very own 40-acre homestead. In an all new series, HOMESTEAD RESCUE: RANEY RANCH, the Raneys take on the most ambitious project the family has ever attempted, to build a multi-generational homestead.

Human Planet is an 8-part British television documentary series. It is produced by the BBC with co-production from Discovery and BBC Worldwide. It describes the human species and its relationship with the natural world by showing the remarkable ways humans have adapted to life in every environment on earth.

In the hour-long The Island, internationally acclaimed adventurer and survivalist Bear Grylls gives the modern American man the ultimate challenge: Can a man of today's world survive on a deserted island without the luxuries - or even the basics - of contemporary everyday life?

House of Knives, where talented, innovative and ruthless contenders must use their cooking, strategy and survival skills to make it to the throne. The competition names a weekly ruler based on challenges that reflect the contenders' personal stories, food influences and cultures, while the least successful chefs are banished. There are always six players in the game, so eliminations are followed with a dramatic reveal: a brand-new legendary chef entering the arena.