Man, Woman, Wild Explained

Genre:Reality show
Survival skills
Creator:Mykel Hawke Pierce
Director:Mark Westcott
Doug McCallie
Presenter:Mykel Hawke
Ruth England
Starring:Mykel Hawke
Ruth England
Narrated:Mykel Hawke
Ruth England
Composer:Devin Powers
Country:United States
Language:English
Num Seasons:2
Num Episodes:Twenty two
Executive Producer:David Garfinkle, Jay Renfroe, Doug McCallie, Bill Howard
Producer:Todd Cohen
Editor:Dan Tivin
Location:Various
Runtime:60 minutes
Company:Renegade 83[1]
Channel:Discovery Channel
Related:Dual Survival
Man vs. Wild

Man, Woman, Wild was a cable television reality series which originally aired on the Discovery Channel from July 2010 to January 2012. The show features former US Army Special Forces survival expert Mykel Hawke, and his television journalist wife, Ruth England, who have to survive for a half-week with limited supplies in wild and inhospitable locations around the world.[2] [3]

The show focuses on Hawke teaching his wife various survival skills such as starting fire without the aid of modern implements like matches and lighters, locating and treating sources of water, and eating non-traditional forms of food such as insects and wild plants. An emergency crew remained on permanent stand-by during filming and was actually utilized during the first season, for example, when England was overcome by severe heat exhaustion and dehydration in a Mexican desert.[4]

Originally running for two seasons, Man, Woman, Wild's first episode aired on July 16, 2010, and its last episode aired on January 19, 2012. The survival series was not renewed for a third season, which was confirmed by Mykel Hawke via Facebook in January 2012.[5] About the closure, Hawke stated: "The show in its current format was too hard on us and our family, so, we chose to stop".

In 2014, the couple resurrected the format in the Travel Channel series Lost Survivors.

Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

  1. 2010-07-16, Amazon
  2. 2010-07-23, Botswana
  3. 2010-07-30, Louisiana
  4. 2010-08-13, Tasmania[6]
  5. 2010-08-20, Mexico
  6. 2010-08-27, Utah
  7. 2010-09-03, Motukitiu, Aitutaki, Cook Islands
  8. 2010-09-10, Alaska (Denali National Park)
  9. 2010-09-17, Tennessee (The Smoky Mountains)
  10. 2010-09-24, Dominica

Season 2 (2011–2012)

  1. 2011-09-02, Lost at Sea (near Bahamas)
  2. 2011-09-09, Louisiana Firestorm
  3. 2011-09-16, Amazon Jungle Maze
  4. 2011-09-23, Quicksand & Sinkholes (South Andros[7] in the Bahamas)
  5. 2011-09-23, Volcanic Destruction (Montserrat)
  6. 2011-09-30, Message in a Bottle (Pearl Islands,[8] Panama)
  7. 2011-10-07, High Desert Thirst (Anza-Borrego Desert State Park[9] in California)
  8. 2011-10-14, Bear Encounter (Blackfeet Nation[10] in Montana)
  9. 2011-12-29, Bear's Kitchen (Alaska)
  10. 2012-01-05, Newts and Roots (Kentucky)
  11. 2012-01-12, Croatian Cave Odyssey (Velebit caves and mountains, Croatia)
  12. 2012-01-19, Scottish Highlands Peril

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-rivera/literary-manager-ken-atch_b_699632.html Literary Manager Ken Atchity on How 'Literary Agencies Must Change'
  2. http://press.discovery.com/us/dsc/programs/man-woman-wild/ Man, Woman, Wild press material
  3. https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-08-27-survivaltv27_ST_N.htm Survival shows are now the fittingest on television
  4. Web site: Ruth England overcome by heat exhaustion and dehydration during filming of Man, Woman, Wild in Mexico .
  5. Web site: Mykel Hawke confirms via Facebook that Man, Woman, Wild will not be renewed for a third season . . January 18, 2012 . June 27, 2015.
  6. http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/09/08/171555_tasmania-news.html Tourism shuns TV's wild man
  7. Web site: Man, Woman, Wild: Bone Dry.
  8. Web site: Man, Woman, Wild: Message in a Bottle.
  9. Web site: Man, Woman, Wild: High Desert Thirst. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120429005134/http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/man-woman-wild-high-desert-thirst-videos/. April 29, 2012. mdy-all.
  10. Web site: Man, Woman, Wild: Bear Encounter. dead. https://archive.today/20120711195808/http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/man-woman-wild-bear-encounter-videos/. July 11, 2012. mdy-all.