Angry Planet is a Canadian reality television series created by Peter Rowe and George Kourounis that features the adventures of storm chaser George Kourounis, as he gets up close to investigate and document the most fierce natural phenomena the Earth has to dish out.
The series originally premiered in Canada on the Outdoor Life Network in March 2007. A third season will air in Canada in 2009.
The first season of Angry Planet aired in South Africa on DStv's Travel Channel from 20 March to 12 June, 2008, on Thursdays at 21h30. There are 13 half-hour episodes in the first season.
Season 2 premiered on the Travel Channel on Thursday 18 September 2008, at 20h30. There are 13 half-hour episodes in the second season.
Season 2 Repeats
Fridays: 04h30
Season 1
Mother Nature is getting angry. Heatwaves are coming, forest fires are burning, the icecaps are melting and storms are brewing.
Angry Planet chronicles the most dramatic natural phenomena of our wild world, through the eyes of adventurer George Kourounis.
It takes a special kind of adventurer to become a stormchaser, some might even suggest that ‘lunatic’ would be a better term. George Kourounis is one of the most active and daring of stormchasers, so that would make him ‘King of the Lunatics’.
George’s courage, if not his sanity, is certainly not in question as he places himself in the way of violent tornadoes in Texas, traverses a boiling lake in the Caribbean and descends to the world’s hottest place in Ethiopia.
It’s certainly safer to watch George facing avalanches and blizzards in Canada from the comfort of your own home.
Most impressive of all, he gets married on the lip of an exploding volcano. The volcano is probably the least of his worries.
Season 2
Just how much does this man’s insurance policy cost? George Kourounis is back battling weather’s most extreme elements in a brand new season of Angry Planet.
There is no better example of extremes than when George visits both the hottest and the coldest places in North America - Death Valley can top 57 degrees Celsius and Snag, Yukon plummets to -63 degrees C.
However, just being there is not enough for George who joins the ultra-marathon runners who race in these conditions.
Throw in the usual terrifying mix of hurricanes in Jamaica, thunderstorms in Australia, volcanoes in Java and monsoons in India and it’s a wonder this man is still around to tell the tale.
Still, George does find time for the gentler pursuit of having his teeth cleaned by the Peppermint Cleaner Shrimp in Hawaii. At least he can put the savings made at his dentist towards that insurance policy.