I think Bears a Great Guy, I don't think he's a fake but some people forget that serving in Special Forces this is what your trained for. I've heard about scenes being faked but that could have been done for a quick cut and the safty of Bear. I also in my opinion believe that the fact people moan about him killing animals is that they just can't accept the fact that he has to be done for survival.

torz, South East,

Reading some of the comments, I can see why the UK has such massive problems with ASBO kids...so many of these people don't appear to have the maturity and commonsense to care about their nation's children. I read a lot of "me-me-me" behind many of the comments, and few have mentioned that the whole issue involves the impact of shows like this on kids, not adults. Children are not adults--that is why they are called children--and kids will be exposed to the nastier side of life soon enough--why push it?

If you don't care, who will? Caring is part of civilizatin, and when a civilization stops caring for itself, well, it's breaking down then, isn't it?

To a few of these commenters, I say: Stop whinging about parents being upset for their children. The fact that you seem to lack the capacity to step outside your little box and care about someone else besides yourself, perhaps that also is part of the problem.

NBG, Glens Falls, USA NY

Bear is a great guy, and furthermore any programme that can get children and/or adults interested in venturing beyond the sofa can be no bad thing.

Children watch films featuring violence and (human) deaths every day; this type of media portrayal has even become common in media such as advertising (see most cinema trailers, even those prior to shows rated at low age levels).

The odd dead turtle can hardly cause that much significant psycholigical damage.

A., Manchester,

Grylls is an entrepreneur, and, not a very good one.
What he has tried to do is, put a new slant on the survival themed television show and failed miserably.
Now this may not appear to be true to many people who's only contact with that sort of environment is the television, or maybe as even close as the car window. It's ok be naive, after all it's highly unlikely that the majority of people would find themselves in such a situation.
However sentationalising such a thing, to, it has be said, make as much money as possible, and in the process misrepresent what survival or a better way of putting it is, living with nature is down right wrong.
Ray Mears got it right, many people I know, including myself were absolutely hooked on his every word, and I know a lot of people having spent 16 years in the Royal Marines and, having lived with nature many times, in many countries.
Don't let Grylls pull the wool over your eyes, like he has done to the tv companies, he's a fake.

Lee, Dorset,

Program makers are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Of course you have to kill animals before you cook and eat them.
They would eat all the vegetables otherwise.

G J BUNTON, SLOUGH, BERKSHIRE

Gino, the point of this article was to state that because the act of killing the animal was NOT shown, it confused many viewers into thinking that the turtle was being roasted alive. I serioulsy doubt that Bear would have needlessly tortured a turtle.
Maybe you should throw your computer away as well so you don't even have to read about tv shows?

Sarah, Chester, UK

In our country, the show is shown on the Discovery Channel, and it is titled "Man Vs. Wild"- Bear Grylls makes a point to state that he is never eating any endangered species during the episodes of the show-
-Yes, I agree let's wait for his rebuttal to the acusations about the producers of this show that have been written about in The Times this week-

Scott Benowitz, Rye, New York, U.S.A.

Harry Hill's TV burp is the best prgramme on TV - no question. I'm actually laughing just thinking about when Harry got Bear to sing "Bear Necessities" You have missed out Gino, download it from somewhere - it is truly excellent!

KAthryn, london,

OK this may be differeant but offcom and parents did not complain when CBBC Serious Andes showd children skinning a rabbit and and Guineapigs, ok you not see the actuall killing but its similar
I think kids today have seen far worse than an apparent killing of a turtle.

Paul, Ilkeston,

OK this may be differeant but offcom and parents did not complain when CBBC Serious Andes showd children skinning a rabbit and and Guineapigs, ok you not see the actuall killing but its similar
I think kids today have seen far worse than an apparent killing of a turtle.

Paul, Ilkeston,

Why not ban all cooking shows? they don't show any of the animals they cook being killed!

Ian, Swindon,

P-leease!!! Shocked that some of the scences shown were not quite as they seemed? Have the viewers never noticed that when Mr Grylls is doing some death-defying, never attempted before by mankind-type-act that the cameraman has always got there first? eg Diving through some underwater cavern into the dark unknown, maybe never to resurface... and goodness me - he gets to the other side and the cameraman is already there and waiting. Funny that...

Andi, London, UK

Pathethetic. Portray killing another life form so you can get cheap entertainment. Hopefully the show got enough ratings to make some executive see it as a bright idea for the future and we can torture more animals soon. Maybe even humans!! Now theres a show worth making! Makes me celebrate my decision to throw out my TV several years ago. The irony is that probably none of the contestants will have to ever face a survival situation in their happy urban environments.

Gino, Melbourne, VIC

I think people should give Bear a break. Until he is able to make his own comment it's a bit rough giving him a hard time. If he did eat the turtle then I hope it was humanly killed before he enjoyed it.

Rachel Jennings, Christchurch , New Zealand