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Ed Stafford's Rite of Passage
Who's in it
Cast
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TV DNA
How Ed Stafford's Rite of Passage actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Ed Stafford's Rite of Passage reads strongest on Cliffhanger Intensity, Tension and World Building.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
From 24 hours of agony in Brazil to jumping over bulls in Ethiopia, adventurer Ed Stafford courses the world to experience how indigenous peoples turn boys into men.
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The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Ed StaffordProducer
Direction
- Alexis GirardetDirector
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