Bare Necessities (TV series)
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2012) |
Bare Necessities is a BBC2 television survival reality show produced by ,[1] which ran for two series plus a pilot episode from 1999 to 2001.
Content[]
Co-hosted by Ed Hall and former commando survival expert Hugh McManners, two teams of three were taken to spend one week in difficult conditions, to survive while eating unpleasant food and performing demanding tasks, being judged by McManners to decide the winner of a five-star hotel holiday.
The teams were made up of contestants with the same profession, including nurses and estate agents competing in the , taxi drivers and hospital doctors on a remote beach in Crete, bank managers and vegetarian students in the Sahara, models and lawyers on a desert island in Phuket, or builders and IT specialists in the Azores.
The episodes included survival tips from McManners.
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links[]
- Bare Necessities at IMDb
- Bare Necessities at Pudding Productions
- Bare Necessities at UKGameshows.com
 | This article related to a BBC television programme is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
- 1999 British television series debuts
- 2001 British television series endings
- 1990s British reality television series
- 2000s British reality television series
- Works about survival skills
- English-language television shows
- BBC Television show stubs