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"Ross Kemp is back on Sky1 and back in some of the globe&amp;#039;s most dangerous spots, exposing the dark underbelly of destinations like Papua New Guinea and Rio de Janeiro in a new series of Extreme World. Digital Spy caught up with Ross and learnt five facts about the very real danger he and his crew face every time the cameras roll. The new series of Extreme World sees Ross and his crew held at gunpoint in Papua New Guinea  &amp;quot;I felt like when our house was burgled as a child. You go from a state of shock, to a feeling of personally being invaded, to a stage of anger - so the anger came out in me! &amp;quot;One thing that does hopefully lay to rest is that myth that we carry around five armed guards with us wherever we go. If I turned up to do an interview with security on my shoulder, no-one would ever speak to me. They&amp;#039;d smell you a mile off. So that lays that fallacy to rest.&amp;quot; Nothing is set up or faked in Extreme World  &amp;quot;We prepare - we have great researchers that go and organise interviews - but ultimately there is no pre-rehearsal. That&amp;#039;s what I think keeps an audience coming to the show. &amp;quot;In the last seven years, we have made some 60-odd documentaries, which is a rapid rate. We&amp;#039;ve formed such a slick operation but we have all risked our lives at certain times to bring these programmes to an audience. The immediacy is what they want - the immediacy of my reaction to it hopefully is what makes the programmes watchable. &amp;quot;You can be as dry as you like - you could say, &amp;#039;Here I am in Afghanistan and I&amp;#039;m getting shot at&amp;#039; - or you can say, &amp;#039;F**k, me, that was close!&amp;#039; and I think my audience responds to &amp;#039;F**k me, that was close!&amp;#039; The way that I do it is the way that I do it. We&amp;#039;ve had people try to mimic what we do and they don&amp;#039;t do it very well.&amp;quot;  Ross refuses to judge anyone he meets while filming Extreme World  &amp;quot;I do not judge anyone. We [previously] made a programme about Gaza and Israel and I was expecting a storm from the media and from lobbyist groups in the UK and around the world - absolute tumbleweed. Why? Because they seemed to be so fair and so balanced on both sides. If I achieve that, I&amp;#039;ve done my job. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re too fast to judge, particularly in this society where everything has to be done yesterday. What Extreme World does still is show the world as it truly is and informs people - or it dissuades them from making judgements about certain people, certain faiths, certain countries.&amp;quot;  Extreme World will always feature one episode filmed in the UK  &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re going to investigate what&amp;#039;s going on around the world, you must also look over your own shoulder. It would be remiss of us to expose wrongs around the world and not expose the ones that happened in our own back-garden. It&amp;#039;s a little bit closer to home. If we can find a topic that is justifiable, I think it&amp;#039;s always important to do one Extreme World in the UK. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re not trying to educate people, we&amp;#039;re just trying to inform people in an entertaining way - though it&amp;#039;s certainly not I&amp;#039;m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, right? I&amp;#039;m not having a go at that programme, but it&amp;#039;s not that. I know I used to be a soap actor but I think I&amp;#039;ve justifiably moved now into something that&amp;#039;s very different. &amp;quot;The whole idea behind Gangs, Afghanistan and Extreme World was to document what was truly going on and use myself as a conduit to an audience - to explain to them what it&amp;#039;s like and how it feels. Hopefully that&amp;#039;s what I do and what I&amp;#039;m good at.&amp;quot; Ross will only stop making Extreme World if the risk becomes greater than the reward  &amp;quot;For me, the only equation I have is the amount of people that come to it versus the risk that I expose my crew to. If I ever feel that we&amp;#039;re not having an effect, yet I&amp;#039;m still imposing a risk not only on [my crew] but on their families, then I will stop making it... or obviously if Sky don&amp;#039;t want me anymore!&amp;quot; The new series of Ross Kemp: Extreme World starts on Tuesday, January 21 at 9pm on Sky1. Catch up on all the latest TV and Movies releases in Digital Spy&amp;#039;s Screen Time:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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