The latest crazy show that has taken our interest is Man Vs. Wild. It's a simple premise: Survival expert Bear Grylls (and that IS is his real name) is dropped into one of nature's many hostile environments and has to survive unaided until he can get back to civilization. Highlights so far have seen him eating ants, drinking the water squeezed out of elephant dung and pissing on his own T-shirt so he can use it to keep cool.

Apart from the ludicrous parts such as above, he does show some useful things if you ever were to get lost, such as building rafts and shelter etc. But the main reason the show works is that he's just a personable bloke, and for an ex-SAS soldier he's not the typical gruff bastard you see on these kind of things,which helps, as he's more like just a normal bloke trying to survive than some superman. He has the enthusiasm for what he's doing that someone like Steve Irwin had, but without getting over the top and annoying.

He also has a funny habit of telling very vague one sentence stories to try and show how dangerous things are, such as "two years ago, a woman fell off this cliff and died."

So far he's done a volcano, a desert island, mountain ranges and jungles - I guess he will run out of crazy things to do eventually, but for now it's bloody good fun to watch him.

Facing the Frozen Ocean author: Bear Grylls