“Looking back now, I should have made it absolutely clear and said, ‘Listen, tell people, show it all.’ That’s the benefit of hindsight.” The problem with Season 1 was a misperception of what the show was all about: It appeared to be a documentary, but was more of a reality show, he said. He says he always stays outdoors when filming when not, he stays in motels (“lodges,” he says) with the crew.
But executives persuaded him by promising him the new shows would show and explain more of the situation. I’m exhausted, let me just go home,” he said.
He looked more fit than tough.Īt first, he said, he told network executives he wouldn’t go on the media tour. His nickname is misleading, having come from a shortening of Edward to Teddy and an association with teddy bear. He has just enough eye contact - but not too much - to convey honesty.ĭressed in quality sweats, Grylls had just showered after a run. (The new, more realistic shows are even more dramatic, he says.) He uses self-deprecating remarks to keep the tone light. He takes responsibility (although executives implied other heads had rolled as a result of the controversy.) He stays on message.
Whatever.’ ”īright and personable, Grylls would be a crisis manager’s dream. “But I’m big enough and ugly enough to stick my head above the parapet and say, ‘Yeah, it’s my fault. “Making TV is not my side of it,” he said recently, over a glass of water in the rarely dangerous Four Seasons’ bar in Beverly Hills, where he was staying during his tour. 9.) And after filming in such places as the 130-degree Sahara Desert and the minus-30-degree Patagonian snow caves, Grylls would travel the talk show circuit to promote the new season and catch flak for the old. (A “Mission to Everest” special kicked off the new season Nov. Season 2 would go on, they decided, but the show would have to be grander and more transparent. But Grylls laid low with his family in Wales, while Discovery executives huddled over the fate of one of their most popular shows.
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