Running Wild with Bear Grylls on FOX


Magitroopa wrote 4 days ago: 1

Honestly not quite sure with this one... it looks like you already created the upcoming season(?) as season 3 on The Challenge.

Just to give give some information regarding this so others are able to possibly figure out how to handle this... As Wikipedia puts it, the show was rebranded as Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge, which is why Wikipedia lists the 2 seasons of The Challenge as seasons 7 and 8.

Meanwhile, on The Futon Critic, there are 3 different listings: Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge, and Running Wild with Bear Grylls for the upcoming FOX episodes (labelling it as 'reboot series').

What's more interesting: this press release actually does make it out to sound like The Challenge is indeed just seasons 7 and 8, with wording of 'this season' throughout the press release. There's also this recent article from Variety, where they state:

“Running Wild” originally began airing on NBC back in 2014. It aired for four seasons at that network before moving to Nat Geo for four more seasons, with the last two seasons being branded as “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge.”

Honestly not super familiar with the series and don't know anything/any past discussions here that might've led to it being listed under two separate shows on TVMaze, but from what I'm reading throughout these different sources, it would be one show for Running Wild with Bear Grylls / Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge, and a separate show for the upcoming FOX season.

Feel free to ignore my mini-rant here, but SIGH. I wish networks actually made it easier to understand what is just a new season of a show versus a whole new separate show. Instead we get things like this or like ABC's upcoming Scrubs episodes and countless other examples from the past where we're basically given the task of (attempting to) figuring all this mess up about what it is/isn't. At this point, I'm willing to bet one day an ongoing show will be renewed for a new season, and then whatever network will go, "Actually, this isn't a new season, but it's actually a whole entirely new show!... because, I dunno, we were bored or something." Sighhhhhh. Anyways, thank you for attending my TED Talks/mini-rant.

fli718 wrote 4 days ago: 1

Thanks for letting me know Magitroopa! Yeah, I know it's confusing (Match Game is another prime example). The network might say it's a reboot/revival, but until we see the show listed on the website it's hard to know for sure. Yes, I admit I put it as another season of The Challenge, but I realized that FOX called it Running Wild with Bear Grylls, so I wasn't sure. Sorry for all the trouble!

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