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"Mark Burnett\u2019s Expedition Africa is like that other show. Except this time the contestants, you know, might not survive\n\nOn May 31st, reality TV creator Mark Burnett debuts his latest dirt, sweat, and tears franchise, Expedition Africa: Stanley and Livingstone, an eight-part History Channel series that follows four modern-day explorers as they retrace the 19th-century journey of American journalist Henry Stanley (of \u201CMr. Livingstone, I presume\u201D fame). It\u2019s like Survivor\u2014minus the craft service table. We caught up with Burnett to find out, among other things, whether a hippo can kill a man.\u2014mark kirby\n\nOf all the expeditions in history, why re-create Stanley and Livingstone? \n\n  Because it\u2019s an incredible story\u2014an American looking for a world-famous British explorer. Stanley wanted to show the British who\u2019s on top, and at the time\u2014the late 1800s\u2014nothing could\u2019ve be worse for the British than having an upstart American find their lost hero. And as far as vicarious adventure goes, Africa wins every time. There\u2019s a sense of danger all the time: whether from crocodiles when crossing rivers, poisonous snakes\u2014I think there are 29 different kinds\u2014lions, and hippos, which turned out to be quite a problem. \n\nHippos? They look so peaceful at the zoo.  \n\n  People don\u2019t realize how dangerous they are; I think there are as many river boating deaths from hippos as from crocodiles. They\u2019re incredibly territorial; shooting footage around African rivers, they\u2019re the thing you\u2019re most concerned about. \n\nSo are you outfitting the explorers with weaponry? I mean, how historically accurate is the show supposed to be? \n\n  Well, of course, it couldn\u2019t be exactly like Stanley and Livingstone, but we wanted to remove things like GPS and give them the old style maps that Stanley would\u2019ve used,..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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