A&E Orders Live Daredevil Series, Special

A&E Network has commissioned Essential Media Group to produce a five-part series about daredevil stunts and is working with Bello Nock on a live high-wire walk over an active volcano.

The Impossible Live (working title) from Kew Media Group’s Essential Media Group will consist of five two-hour episodes chronicling death-defying stunts. “The Impossible Live will take viewers on a wild ride as they witness, in real time, the world’s greatest daredevils risking life and limb to pull off stunts worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster film, but without the benefits of retakes and CGI,” said Elaine Frontain Bryant, executive VP and head of programming for A&E. “The excitement of pulling off the impossible is why we have been working together with Bello, his team and Essential for the last year to continue to develop the biggest stunt of them all.”

Nock, a renowned daredevil, and his company, Opportunity Nocks, are creating Volcano Walk Live (working title), a live special a world-record high-wire walk over an active volcano. “We’ve spent two years traveling the world with top volcanologists and engineers planning this untethered world record-breaking high-wire walk,” Nock said. “We first considered a volcano in Nicaragua but recent geological events have made the lava lake too small so we decided on a larger, more active and far more challenging volcano in East Africa. This is the wire walk that no one will ever be able to top!”