Holiday survival

Now that I am on holidays, I sometimes have the time to sit in front of the TV and get surprised by some stuff like El Último Superviviente, en Cuatro —Born Survivor for the British Channel 4, broadcast in the U.S. on Discovery Channel as Man vs. Wild, and as Ultimate Survival on the Discovery Channel in Europe, Asia and Africa. The series features Bear Grylls dropped into inhospitable places, showing viewers how to survive.
Edward Michael 'Bear' Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He's got a life, no doubt, and he does what he loves more, you can see that on every show. They have featured stunts including Grylls climbing cliffs, parachuting from helicopters, balloons, and planes, paragliding, ice climbing, wading rapids, eating snakes and crocodiles, wrapping his urine-soaked t-shirt around his head to help stave off the desert heat, wrestling alligators, sleeping inside camel carcasses, and free climbing waterfalls. Grylls also tells us stories of adventurers stranded or killed in the wilderness. Anyway, I must admit I was becoming a fan.
However, Born Survivor has been criticized for fabricating some of the situations Grylls finds himself in. In 2006 it was revealed that Born Survivor misled viewers into believing that Grylls was stranded in the wild alone when he was not and Channel 4 suspended the show for a few weeks.

The issue of scenes being manipulated and several other incidents, including the impression Grylls built a raft "in a matter of hours with no tools" (according to an adviser on the show, the raft was actually in part built by a stunt consultant) have changed the way I watch the show. The incidents were, in fact, confirmed by Channel 4, who argued that it was not a documentary, but a "how-to" guide to survival, implying that staged scenes were acceptable in that context.
Some have claimed Ultimate Survival is a fake, but I still want to know how this guy deals with some of the situations in the wild. I guess it's just like any other kind of entertainment. We know movies are full of stunts and we love them anyway, don't we?