Ross Kemp: Extreme World
Ross Kemp travels around the world talking to people involved in illicit trades, locals who have been affected by violence and hardship, and the authorities who are attempting to combat the problems. In each episode he attempts to establish contacts within the groups in order to get close to the ringleaders.
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 1h 0m
Release: 2011
Rating: 8.0
Season 1 - Ross Kemp: Extreme World
2011-02-21
"The actor travels to some of the most dangerous places on Earth, uncovering under-reported stories of crime and hardship. His journey begins in Chicago, where he provides an access-all-areas insight into the city's drug epidemic, meeting dealers on the streets and witnessing the lengths to which people will go to get a fix, before spending time with an outreach worker and the police."
2011-02-28
"Join Ross Kemp as he travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to take an unapologetically unflinching look at the decade-long war between the Congolese and Hutu militia."
2011-03-07
"Shocks are in store as Ross Kemp travels to the Mexican city of Juarez. Reduced to a warzone, competing cartels fight for ownership of the drug smuggling routes to the US."
2011-03-14
"Difficult questions are raised in this powerful penultimate instalment. More than a year since the country was hit by an earthquake, Ross reveals what life is like in Haiti."
2011-03-21
"Ross Kemp's last investigation hits close to home as he exposes the 21st-century slave trade. Entering the world of human trafficking, Ross need look no further than the UK."
Season 2 - Ross Kemp: Extreme World
2012-09-03
"Ross and the team find themselves being caught in cross-fire as they report on the battle for Karachi in Pakistan."
2012-09-10
"Ross makes his way to Caracas, Venezuela to learn how the world's most oil-rich nation has become one of its most violent."
2012-09-17
"Ross Kemp investigates issues a little close to home as Extreme World comes to Glasgow."
2012-09-24
"Ross visits Marseille, and takes a detour into one of the city's most dangerous and secure estates..."
2012-10-01
"Ross attempts to find out why, seven years on from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is the city that never been able to heal."
2012-10-08
"Ross is in the African countries of Kenya and Tanzania, where a belief in witchcraft is deadly and deeply entrenched."
Season 3 - Ross Kemp: Extreme World
2014-01-21
"The actor and his documentary team expose stories of crime and hardship around the world, beginning with sex trafficking in India. Ross visits the notorious red-light district of Mumbai, where secretly filmed footage reveals not only the scale of the industry but how young some of the girls trapped in it are. He also travels across country to West Bengal, meeting families whose daughters have been taken from them, and comes face to face with a sex trafficker who confesses to many shocking acts that leave the presenter and his team stunned"
2014-01-28
"In a startling installment, Ross Kemp visits one of the most diverse yet chaotic nations on Earth. Contains violence and distressing scenes."
2014-02-04
"In an investigation closer to home, Ross and the team travel to Northern Ireland during the July marching season. Ross Kemp looks at the state of play fifteen years after the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland."
2014-02-11
"Ross visits the Middle East where Lebanon is on the brink of civil war as the conflict in neighbouring Syria intensifies."
2014-02-18
"Ross travels to the entertainment capital of the world where he discovers how life in Las Vegas is far from fun for many. Contains scenes of drug use."
2014-02-25
"In the final stage of his latest poke around the inflamed nether regions of the world, our fearless host visits Rio de Janeiro to investigate the drug epidemic that's sweeping through the city. Brazil currently has the seventh-largest economy in the world. A rapidly emerging global power, it's on the verge of hosting this year's World Cup as well as the 2016 Olympics. Yet despite its burgeoning fortunes, it is now the largest consumer of crack cocaine anywhere on the planet. Kemp wades into some of Rio's most lawless districts \u2013 known locally as 'cracolandias' - where drug abuse is a 24\/7 fact of life and dealers openly carry weapons to combat police raids. He also confronts the harrowing realities of crack addiction, as he meets some of those whose lives have been ruined by this devastating drug."
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Season 6 - Ross Kemp: Extreme World
2017-07-22
"This edition uncovers the dark underbelly of crystal meth use in the Philippines and the country\u2019s new \u2014 and highly controversial \u2014 president Rodrigo Duterte. Despite being loved by many, his zero tolerance policy on drug abuse is shocking. Under his rule so far, 3,000 suspected drug dealers and users have been killed and, as Kemp discovers, it\u2019s the police who appear to be the ones giving the orders."
2017-07-29
"Ross gains unprecedented access to the world of the Camorra crime syndicate as he investigates a street war that has claimed more than 4,000 lives in Naples"
2017-08-06
"Ross heads deep into Madagascar's bandit lands as he investigates how organised and murderous cattle rustling gangs have villagers living in fear."
2017-08-13
"Ross travels to North Africa as he investigates the arduous journeys taken by those desperate to leave Libya for Europe."