Baz's Extreme Worlds

Baz visits Oklahoma State Penitentiary, a maximum security prison. It holds 1,400 highly dangerous criminal, 73 of whom are on death row. Most of the inmates are on 23 hour lockdown. For two days every year, Oklahoma State Penitentiary gives them the opportunity to participate in the world's only 'behind the walls' prison rodeo. It is very violent and dangerous.

Baz Ashmawy admits that during the six months filming for his new television series Baz's Extreme Worlds, nothing pushed him more mentally or physically than his days aboard the fishing boat The Martin Luther. Baz joined the crew of the 120ft Beam Trawler in Kilmore Quay, Wexford, and worked onboard as they fished the deep Atlantic ocean for monkfish and megrin. Here lived with the tight crew that included the Captain Pigeon, the deckhands Jay, Chico and Dan, and the cook Jimmy. Baz's trip out to the deep brought the crew face to face with some very dangerous and tough conditions.

New York city is home to almost 9 million people. It has over 5,000 skyscrapers and high rise apartment blocks. It has 11,000 of the most aggressive firefighters in the world. For a week, Baz was given access all areas to some of the busiest stations in New York. Squad 41 is one of the elite stations. They specialise in extreme situations like chemical fires subway crashes and terrorist attcks. They train Baz into the world of fire fighting by bringing him to the FDNY training academy.

Cage fighting is the fastest growing sport in the world. Baz follows the story of Chris Stringer, 23, a rising star of cage fighting in Northern Ireland with aspirations to win international titles. In this programme Baz follows Chris as he prepares for a big international bout against American champ Rich 'No Love' Clementi. A win will mean he could get a crack the American cage fighting world. Chris's fiancé Lynne Holt, herself a cage fighter, is standing by her man all the way

The Arctic is one of the harshest environments in the world. With average winter temperatures of -25 degrees. In this programme Baz joins a a survival expedition, led by survivalist Ross Bowyer, into the arctic wastelands. In his journey Baz survives for 32 hours without food in temperatures of -25 degrees, sleeping rough in the snow.

In tonight's show Baz travels with the Irish army to war-torn Chad. Baz joins the force's 101st Battalion for the first ten days of a four month mission. After 4 days acclimatisation Baz is allowed to join a 48 hour patrol into the heart of rebel territory.