Man, Woman, Wild on Discovery

MANILA, Philippines - Surviving the wild can be hard enough but add to the mix a husband and wife who don’t always see eye to eye and you have Discovery Channel’s Man, Wowan, Wild. Meet Mykel Hawke, a former Special Forces survival expert and his television-journalist wife, Ruth and together, they take on some of the most forbidding and remote locations around the world. Dropped into each spot, they must survive as a team for four days and nights, with only a knife and the clothes on their backs. As they test their will and their marriage, the couple finds common ground standing up to nature as husband and wife in the wildest places on Earth. Man, Wowan, Wild premieres Tuesday nights at 10, beginning Oct. 12. Encores Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

For Mykel, survival comes naturally as years of military training as a Green Beret has taught him to survive in any condition. However, the wild is a new and dangerous place for Ruth. From building shelters to hunting for food to finding a suitable rescue route, Mykel teaches Ruth the necessary skills needed to survive in different terrain. Battling hypothermia in Tasmania, near dehydration in the rat-infested, desert island of Aitutaki, and helping each other survive the gator-infested bayous of Louisiana after a sky-diving incident gone awry are some of the high stakes predicaments that the Hawkes find themselves in as they take on some of the world’s environments in Man, Wowan, Wild.