Jungle Gold

The show's repetitive voice-overs are annoying. But you'll be sucked into this dangerous venture.

Somehow, like the alchemists of old, Jungle Gold ends up making gold from lead.

It feels somehow as if there's a backstory here we don't fully know about. Still, their adventures are instructive and the dangers seem genuine.

Jungle Gold uses every available editing trick to heighten the tension and get the audience rooting for Scott and George, but the approach is so steeped in xenophobia and Great White Hunter short-hand this might as well have been made in the 1930s.