Tough Guy or Chicken?
TV ShowEnded

Tough Guy or Chicken?

2009
1 season
8 episodes
Reality

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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Seasons

  • Ecuador

    1.Ecuador

    20-08-200960m

    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...

  • Siberia

    2.Siberia

    27-08-200960m

    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...

  • Mexico

    3.Mexico

    03-09-200960m

    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.

  • Amazon

    4.Amazon

    10-09-200960m

    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...

  • Namibia

    5.Namibia

    17-09-200960m

    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 i...

  • Bahamas

    6.Bahamas

    24-09-200960m

    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...

  • Bangladesh

    7.Bangladesh

    02-10-200960m

    The lads' penultimate challenge is going to be one of the most deadly, as they have come to Bangladesh to learn to catch venomous snakes. Master snake king Shoporaj Dholu has just...

  • Japan

    8.Japan

    09-10-200960m

    They have reached Japan for the last of their challenges. They have just six days to become Buddhist Yamabushi monks and take part in one of the toughest pilgrimages on the planet...

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