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  • BBC Three

Tough Guy or Chicken?

  • 2009
  • Ended
  • Reality
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season

Tough Guy or Chicken? is a 2009 reality television series shown on BBC Three. It involves five young British men spending four months travelling the world taking tough challenges with deadly animals and in hostile locations. The series is made up of 8 episodes where, in each, the men are taken to a different part of the world to take on the different challenges that await them. If they are not up for the tasks required of them they fail the given challenge.

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Latest: Series 1 · 2009

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  1. E1. Ecuador

    Aug 20, 2009 · 60m

    To start their epic journey they travel high into the Andes where they must become chagras - the weathered, hard-as-nails cowboys of Ecuador. They do battle with the local, deadly fighting bulls, many of which end up in bullrings across South America.

  2. E2. Siberia

    Aug 27, 2009 · 60m

    Continuing their epic journey they travel to the Siberian arctic to become Evenki reindeer herders, a people who have survived in one of the most hostile locations for thousands of years. This is about learning to deal with extreme cold without home comforts.

  3. E3. Mexico

    Sep 3, 2009 · 60m

    The adventurers head into the jungle of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and become cave-divers in a vast network of largely uncharted, pitch-black, underwater tunnels.

  4. E4. Amazon

    Sep 10, 2009 · 60m

    The adventurers join boys of the Jaminawa tribe in the Brazilian Amazon and endure six days of a jungle initiation to become men. To succeed they must follow the rules of Jaminawa shaman Carlito, who has taught generations of boys the secrets of the jungle the hard way.

  5. E5. Namibia

    Sep 17, 2009 · 60m

    After two months on the road, they have arrived in blistering heat of the Namibian bush for their fifth challenge - to join the Ju-Wasi tribe of San Bushmen on a traditional hunt in an extremely inhospitable environment.

  6. E6. Bahamas

    Sep 24, 2009 · 60m

    After the pain of the Amazonian jungle and the arid heat of the Namibian bush, they have come to paradise - the Bahamas. Unfortunately for them their challenge lies underwater, in the shape of sharks.

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Cast

Lauren Laverne