I work within TV and this is how it is, sorry all fans!

"Bear the cameras aren't rolling, you don't have to drink your own urine."

That's why Survivorman is the best, he is his own camera crew and actually survives unlike these "Survivalists"

You guys do realize the point of the tv show was to teach people how they could survive in certain situations. Not to actually throw the man into near death situations and hope he survives. The show served its purpose in teaching. Who cares if it was real or not.

He never claimed to actually be surviving though. Yeah, the show makes it seem like it (of course, it's better TV) but the point of the show isn't to check if Bear could do it. He teaches viewers how to survive. And even though they have food on set and may sleep in hotels, he still drinks urine, jumpes in half frozen rivers, jump from a cliff to a tree and climb down etc, just to illustrate.

Bears head looks a little bigger than the average size head in this photo and that makes me think this is photo shopped