Discovery Channel is promising to go where reality television has never gone before: inside the mouth of an anaconda.
The December premiere of “Eaten Alive” promises to show filmmaker Paul Rosolie being swallowed alive by a giant snake, after covering himself in pig’s blood while wearing a custom-built suit.
“You have to go head-first,” Rosolie says in a clip promoting the program.
The special has already been filmed, and the filmmaker – and snake – are believed to be OK.
Critics have voiced concern, wondering whether the snake was harmed during the filming, but Rosolie defended the program.
“If u know me – I would never hurt a living thing,” he wrote on Twitter.
Eaten Alive
New Discovery TV program
It's not me, it's someone else.
“Eaten Alive” marks another “shock” reality program for Discovery Channel, ... and “Tethered,” with strangers bound to each other while participating in survival challenges.
Rip off.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
They regurgitate their prey. When you piss them off or frighten them.GORDON wrote:How the hell do you get a human that has been swallowed by a snake out without cutting the snake open?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
GORDON wrote:I thought their back-curving teeth would prevent regurgitation.
When they've got the teeth dug into the prey, sure. When they let go...
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I didn't think this would work. Everything I've seen about the largest snakes (anaconda and reticulated python), most experts agree that it's unlikely they could get their mouths over the shoulders of an adult. Children could be eaten, but unlikely for adults.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
Discovery's new boss was not a fan.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."