I Don’t know how many of you guys caught High Altitude and Explore last night, these two new BBC series both seem like they are aimed at the emerging extreme travel markets. Which despite the fact that climbers and other extreme sports men and women having engaged with this type of activity for years, it is only now that it appears to be going more ‘mainstream’ and turning up on the BBC.
The Explore programme was a different perspective on the ‘Travel Show’, no fake tan or the usual suspects flouncing around on a beach, just a few apparently well seasoned travellers taking you on some of the must see and do things of South America, I particularly liked the football match as it was a little ‘intense’, however they also take a look at the natural side of the countries like the glaciers and mountains.
I thought it was an excellent little programme, well worth catching if your about, if not then get on the BBC I-player. Similarly High Altitude has some potential to offer the ‘extreme’. This week it was failing to get up Mount Blanc and Sky Diving out of a helicopter down the North Face of the Eiger!
If I am honest, I am not sure where this programme will go or what it was going to say about anything, other than letting Graeme Bell former downhill skier and a series of famous co-presenters a well paid extreme trip to some place or another. Considering the dearth of this type of programme, it is still probably worth catching on I-player at the very least.
This is without doubt the funniest programme on TV at the moment. Essential viewing.
Everything they try and do they pretty much fail at, after trying to hype it up as the most exciting thing on the planet, ever.
If Harry Hill ever saw this programme he could make a whole half hour show from Ed and Graham’s “we are going to climb a mountain, er actually we are not as it’s too cold, and I don’t like the cold”. Brilliant.
Here is an idea, my mate and me flown around the world by the BBC to go lets say rock climbing, then we look at the mountain and decide we need to plan ahead so go to the nearest pub to plan where we stay for the rest of that show. Next week me and my mate will be in the Australian outback to fly big kites that could take us into outer space. (Obviously having seen the kites we would again need to go and plan). Its a winner.
Cannot wait to see what Ed and Graham can’t do in the next series.
Ashley. I hope for the love of god that they don’t get a second series. I have only seen decent episode that I blogged about, the downhill fast one.
It is reasonably genius piece blagging on the producers front.