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The Island with Bear Grylls
2014 - 2018 5.7 (18 votes) 5 Seasons
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The Island with Bear Grylls

Overview

Generations have wondered if they could survive being stranded on a desert island. But how would people cope if they had to do it, for real, and with only themselves to rely on? It's a role reversal for Bear Grylls in this adventure series. Instead of himself attempting to survive harsh conditions in a remote location, Grylls abandons groups of British men and women on remote, uninhabited Pacific islands for a month and more. They will be completely alone, filming themselves, and with only the clothes they're wearing and some basic tools. The island may look like paradise but behind the beaches it can be hell on earth. When stripped of all the luxuries and conveniences of 21st-century living, does modern British man still have the spirit and resources to survive?

Top Cast

Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls

Himself

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2014)

Adventurer Bear Grylls abandons 13 British men on a remote, uninhabited Pacific island. In danger of being overwhelmed by the tides, they battle through the dense undergrowth as the enormity of the task ahead quickly dawns on them.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Episode 1
2014-05-05

After being dropped off on the island by Bear, the men are in danger of being overwhelmed by the tides. Battling through the dense undergrowth, the enormity of the task ahead dawns on them. As they try to get to know each other, daylight is quickly fading and tempers fray as doubts set in during the search for shelter for the night. With dehydration and hunger taking hold, the men are up against it. They need to find water and make fire or their time on the island will be over. The battle for survival is on.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Episode 2
2014-05-12

It's been 48 hours since the men had a meal and hunger grips the group. The race is on to bring food back to camp before they become too weak to hunt. The men take greater and greater risks in the pursuit of vital calories, desperate to seek new ways to chase, trap and outsmart the island's elusive wildlife. Ryan lashes out in anger and Craig is left deflated. And then they come face to face with one of the island's most fearsome predators - the caiman crocodile.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Episode 3
2014-05-19

With the men losing weight on a diet of just 300 calories a day, Ryan heads off alone in search of food. But without water, he soon finds himself lost and in imminent danger. With Ryan's actions now affecting the whole group, the men have a choice. Do they bring him back into the fold? Or do they cast him out?

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Episode 4
2014-05-26

Three weeks into their survival experience and the group is barely getting by on a meagre diet of snails and coconuts. Willing to take ever greater risks for food, Mike and Chris battle with dangerous tides, while tempers fray as it appears that not everyone is pulling their weight. Frustrated by their failure to find another caiman croc, a hunting party risks a trip to the treacherous mangroves at night.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Episode 5
2014-06-02

The men enter their fourth week of living on the island with the group hungry and divided. They elect an island leader. But will everyone back him? With island life starting to fall apart, even when a stingray arrives in the fishing nets, arguments follow close behind. But as their time on the island draws to a close and a return to civilisation beckons, there are moments of redemption for some.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Surviving the Island
2014-06-02

Bear Grylls visits the men at the end of their stay on the Island to explore how they coped and how the experience has affected them. Bear also reveals the secrets of how the show was made, with a unique behind-the-scenes look at managing the medical risks to maintaining camera kit in extreme conditions. Bear gets to see first-hand how the men have been living for the past four weeks. He tours the camp and reflects with the men on their personal approaches to surviving. When pushed to the very limit, what did they learn about themselves and each other?

Runtime: 45 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2015)

Following complaints about the absence of women in the first series, two groups, 14 men and 14 women, were left on two separate islands for six weeks.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Men's Island
2015-04-08

The men swim ashore. Hammered by a succession of tropical storms, they must find a safe place away from deadly scorpions, snakes and caiman crocodile. And less than a week in, a fierce row breaks out.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: The Women's Island
2015-04-09

Bear Grylls abandons 14 women on a desert island in the Pacific. As night falls on Day 1, they make camp in the jungle - at the mercy of deadly creatures and voracious sand flies.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: The Men's Island
2015-04-15

The men have barely slept or had a real meal since landing. And a bitter rivalry between the island's two builders, Paul and Andy, has turned into all-out war.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The Women's Island
2015-04-16

The camp has split in two and is dangerously low on water. As the main group head into the jungle, looking for lost members, they're in for a nasty surprise.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Men's Island
2015-04-22

The men come face to face with a fearsome predator. And, as the group's body weight and energy levels plummet, there's division and conflict in the camp.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: The Women's Island
2015-04-23

Starving and seriously dehydrated, the group leave camp looking for water. They find two pigs, but can't agree whether to adopt them, or eat them.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: The Men's Island
2015-04-29

The men build a raft to go fishing. But, as Vic gets dragged towards razor-sharp rocks, he faces a life and death struggle to turn the raft around.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: The Women's Island
2015-04-30

The extreme conditions are taking their toll, with the women on the brink of starvation. Lauren, Beth and Belinda go pig hunting in the jungle.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: The Women's Island
2015-05-06

It's almost four weeks into the experiment and the women are entering dangerous medical territory. They're given a 36-hour deadline to turn things around.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: The Men's Island
2015-05-13

Malnourished, exhausted and under pressure, the group turn on each other. Vic and Sam argue, while a fishing venture goes disastrously wrong for Will.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: The Women's Island
2015-05-14

Hunger and disorganisation is causing the group to fragment. Lauren and Beth make a push for leadership but Jaime and Belinda push back.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: The Men's Island
2015-05-20

After five weeks on the island, the men are low on food and energy. They make a last bid to hunt for food before Bear arrives to take them back to civilisation.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Surviving the Island
2015-05-21

Bear meets the men and women who made it through six weeks on a Pacific island, to see how they coped battling hunger, thirst, and each other, in one of the biggest tests of their lives

Runtime: 45 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2016)

In the ultimate test of endurance, Bear Grylls abandons two groups - one of eight men, the other of eight women - to see if they can survive on an uninhabited island armed with just the clothes they stand up in and a few basic tools. The two groups were left at opposite ends of the same island, with neither group knowing of the other's presence.

7 episodes

Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2017)

Old and young go head to head for the fourth series of Bear Grylls' epic survival show. With just the clothes on their backs and a handful of basic tools, which generation has what it takes to survive when pushed to the limits of human endurance?

6 episodes

Season 5 poster
Season 5 (2018)

Bears drops the 16 castaways in caiman-infested mangroves and deep water. The two teams with different income levels soon meet, and it quickly becomes clear that the island isn't their biggest challenge, as the prospect of living together kickstarts a class war.

6 episodes

Videos

TRAILER: The Island with Bear Grylls | Monday 9pm | Channel 4

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