As TV concepts go, it sounds pretty compelling. Imagine the pitch ‘Take one seasoned explorer to the last great arctic unknown leading a rag-bag crew escaping from their emotional backstory before voting them off one by one.’
“They wanted to call it ‘ice-idol’ or something like that”, said the seasoned explorer Jim McNeill - “but I said: ‘Absolutely no way, I’m not doing that’ ”.
McNeill could well be the one great explorer you’ve never heard of - until now.