never been that impressed with the shows.
He always seems to do only the bare minimum and on the couple of shows I watched he never actually did enough to have survived on what was shown.  I wasn't impressed enough with his efforts on the desert islan to bother watching anything else. To start with he'd assumed that you'd havea survival quality knife with you - so no alternative edges were explored. And his attempts at food gathering were laughable at their best. He did not gather enough food to survive. At which point I lost interest in the programs.

If you want the real deal then look no further than Ray Mears.
Not quite as photogenic as grylls and doesn't have a silly name - but what he doesn't know about bushcraft probably isn't worth knowing.
I've yet to see a program of his where the native people he visits don't learn as much from him as he does from them.

Shouldn't this discussion be on the "other topic" page of the forum? 

I've never seen the shows but they are not really about slings, are they?

OK, I screwed up in where to place it.
  I just got back from a 3 day stint at an archeological dig, and I was tired.

Hey slingbadger my man,

I hope you are not offended.   

How did the dig go?

ray mears :-)
if you don't have him on your tv - get his dvds.