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BEAR’S MISSION WITH ROB BRYDON, 9PM, ITV

AFTER years of plying his trade on the comedy circuit, Welshborn Rob Brydon finally got his break in 2000, starring in not one, but two deliciously dark BBC comedies, Marion And Geoff, and Human Remains. Since then, he’s become one of British TV’s most familiar faces. Here, he joins Bear Grylls to trek across the rugged wilds of Snowdonia, enduring freezing temperatures and all manner of unshowbizzy discomfort en route — and Bear ensures Rob finds himself out of his depth as soon as their nerve-wracking helicopter trip has delivered them into the heart of the mountains. As someone who admits he ‘wimped out’ of Cubs as a small boy because it was ‘too rough’, will he still be smiling when Bear’s finished with him?