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Dave Canterbury to star in new show "Dirty Rotten Survival" beginning Sept 15 at 10/9c on NatGeo

From Dave's Facebook:

ANNOUNCEMENT-The time has finally come for me to announce an NEW show I will be involved in that will Air beginning Sept 15 at 10/9c on National Geographic Channel Dirty Rotten Survival is an outdoor adventure trek seasoned with a dash of grit, “man-genuity,” and a whole lot of MacGyver’ing. National Geographic Channel challenged a survival savant, an engineer-inventor and a construction guru to hit the road and test their mettle by competing in location-inspired outdoor challenges across several states using a different, limited set of tools in each episode. The series will turn the survival genre on its head while our three experts work, laugh and — sometimes — suffer through each “stately” challenge. Thank you all for your patience and support!

Posted Aug 20, 2015, 1:50 PM UTC

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angusfred123•

The series will turn the survival genre on its head while our three experts work, laugh and — sometimes — suffer through each “stately” challenge.

So made up and staged events...snore.

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dbmata•

yeah, why do they think this is what people want/need?

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XELBRUJOX•

So made up and staged events...snore.

It's almost like the medium of commercial television is designed for entertainment or something.

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angusfred123•

I enjoy survival shows to have as little fuckery as possible because despite being a tv show people might think they can rely on shit they saw on a made up show. Similar to how many people who watch action movies have a totally unrealistic view of how dangerous actual fighting can be. You can make an entertaining and educational survival show that doesnt gloss over the really shitty parts of survival and give people the wrong idea.

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sunnieskye1•

I REALLY hate these shows where stuff they need is planted for them, "found" conveniently close to the filming.

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Neckbeard-OG•

It sounds entertaining. I don't see Dave being too interested in a show like Alone, he has ADHD or something. His youtube channel is great though.

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ICEFARMER•

It could be alright.

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Vandilbg•

My interest is going to be highly dependent on the challenges. If they are driving around from state to state performing 2 day challenges. Then hitting the road for cheese burgers at five guys between...

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psilokan•

Did they seriously just describe him as a survival savant?

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mickles1975•

It doesn't mean a gifted idiot. It means "a learned person."

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psilokan•

It doesn't mean a gifted idiot.

No one said it did.

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mickles1975•

So why the incredulity?

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mightymateo•

Yeah I was reading that and I'm like which one is Dave...he's not a survival savant, he's a hard as nails survivalist. Thought he was going to host or something.

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dmoneym•

What's wrong with describing him as a survival savant?

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Ajrob2128•

im excited.

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fattypigfatty•

Well it sounds different. I'll give it a shot just because I respect Dave's skill and knowledge. Hopefully its not full of jump cuts and bullcrap teasers going into commercials.

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XELBRUJOX•

It will definitely have those teasers and midcommercial tips — all TV will eventually. They're called podbusters, and it is how the industry is trying to combat DVRs.

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Homesteading•

to be honest, more excited to see Dick Strawbridge on the show

for those that don't know him, he was big on scrap heap challenge and junkyard wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SVwrBBZEtc

his family had a show called it's not easy being green, they built an awesome composting toilet that I am going to totally steal the design of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwGwaCbGMCo

can see pretty much all the episodes here

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTzepesh/videos

huge fan of his

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RenThraysk•

Yeah, Beat the Ancestors was fun too... though only made a handful of episodes.

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Jakuskrzypk•

I'll watch it.

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Jakuskrzypk•

And he just announced There will b no dramma If not for survivorman (Les Stroud) it would have turned the whole genre on its head

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ZioFritz•

I just watched the first 2 minutes. I was super pumped for another survial show, kinda waned off after I saw hippy Dave, and totally lost interest once I realized its just set up crap and lighthearted fun. Not what I am into or looking for. If it would have been even a bit like Dude youre Screwed it would have been fine with me, shenenigans and bs but at the end of the day some legit survival to be done.

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