A new season of Discovery’s Man vs. Wild premieres Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET, and Bear Grylls’ trip to Panama looks like quite the memorable episode. In two preview clips, we see Grylls give himself an enema — a last resort for hydration for those adrift on a raft in the Pacific (the colon absorbs fluids) — and eat a fish eye while shirtless (watch that one after the jump). I have room on my DVR to tape this and Modern Family and Cougar Town, but in case you don’t, Man vs. Wild repeats at midnight.
First, let me start this season by saying Happy New Year to you all. I hope this new year has greeted all of you well and it is my hope that it is a wonderful, successful year for us all. A little irony to start this new season off: I’m home for the holidays and writing this first blog sitting in Dallas, Texas, which also happens to be the hometown of our new bachelor Jake. In fact, he came over and we spent some time together watching football on New Year’s Day. He’s a good Texas boy who I think you’ll grow to like more and more as the season goes on. Because time is short I’m simultaneously prepping for my TV Guide Network red carpet hosting duties by watching Inglourious Basterds while I write this. I doubt this is how Quentin Tarantino would want me to be experiencing his film but you gotta multitask you know.
In a perfect world, Conveyor Belt of Love would be the most utterly convenient set up a girl could ask for. The men coming down the conveyor belt for my viewing pleasure would all be tuxedo-clad, tall, good-looking cogs, ready for molding into the perfect man. But this is reality television and all the men on Conveyor Belt are freaks.
