Ross Kemp - Extreme World Sunday 10PM

Watching the first episode atm, truly shocking stuff. Kemp is one of the best documentary film makers around, he's unafraid to go where most others would never set foot and rarely judges those he comes across. Watching him with the heroin addicts and Kemp comes across as a very genuine person, ge empathises never judging or talking down to them, a trait that a lot of documentary film makers lack.

ziedth wrote: »

I watched about half the first episode before I went to bed last night and as you can always expect with Kemp it was a great watch but borderline upsetting. You raise a very good point about not seeming to judge anyone which would put me off him straight away.

Also, with of these kind of things I sometimes think that they are edited to make the locations/interviews seem more dangerous then they actually are (Danny Dyer for example) but I really don't get that feeling with his shows.

The thing that I find with Kemp's shows is just what aren't they showing. From what we see in the first episode it's obvious that they came across some pretty extreme stuff and I imagine a lot of it was not appropriate for TV viewing.

With Dyer you get a lot of posturing and playing the hard man, with Kemp we have a preconceived idea that he is a hard man but what comes across is that he's really a decent bloke who is genuinely curious and wants to understand what drives people.

I watched all 5 episodes last night and found it to be one of the best documentary shows I have ever seen, some of the topics covered were shocking and Kemp repeatedly gets upset, never hiding it from the camera. I would love to see an extended cut of each episode as it's clear that in the 42 minute run time a lot has to be cut.