“We will refuse any claim of participants even if they were to be killed or raped," said the show's creator, 35-year-old millionaire Yevgeny Pyatkovsky.
"We will have nothing to do with this. This will be spelt out in a document to be signed by the participant before the start of the show."
No doubt these statements are designed to drum up interest in the show, but if it lives up to its concept it's set to be a very gritty affair indeed.
Live streamed around the clock, Game2: Winter will be shot without a film crew, with contestants instead strapped with body cameras as they face -40C conditions, wolves, bears, and each other.
"There have been no reality TV projects before that stay on air 24/7," Mr Pyatkovsky says.
"Probably all of you have watched the Lost TV series, but surviving in a tropical climate is quite different from trying to stay alive in the Siberian taiga - boreal forest - at minus 40 degrees Celsius."
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"We will have nothing to do with this. This will be spelt out in a document to be signed by the participant before the start of the show."
No doubt these statements are designed to drum up interest in the show, but if it lives up to its concept it's set to be a very gritty affair indeed.
Live streamed around the clock, Game2: Winter will be shot without a film crew, with contestants instead strapped with body cameras as they face -40C conditions, wolves, bears, and each other.
"There have been no reality TV projects before that stay on air 24/7," Mr Pyatkovsky says.
"Probably all of you have watched the Lost TV series, but surviving in a tropical climate is quite different from trying to stay alive in the Siberian taiga - boreal forest - at minus 40 degrees Celsius."
Read more at Rape, murder allowed on extreme Russian survival show - 9news.com.au