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National Geographic is bringing a new season of a great series to our televisions. And that´s always something to look forward to. Locked Up Abroad comes back for more starting April 25 at 10PM.
Being held captive far from home is every traveler’s worst nightmare. Now, imagine not only detailing the nightmare to the world, but reliving the captivity in front of cameras — the interaction with hostile inmates, beatings, torture and months of emotional and physical turmoil. In a Locked Up Abroad first, the international hit series returns with its first subject offering his personal imprisonment account … and re-enacting every scene himself.
Beginning Wednesday, April 25, at 10 PM ET/PT, National Geographic Channel’s cult favorite Locked Up Abroad is back for a sixth season, taking viewers inside firsthand accounts of capture, imprisonment and pure terror far from home. Presented entirely from the subject’s point of view, hear every critical detail and watch each heart-pounding moment of the harrowing journey unfold. Combining revealing,
intimate personal interviews with dramatic re-enactments, each one-hour episode focuses on an extraordinary situation, recounting the brutality, the bravery and, in some cases, the bad decisions that put the traveler in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In the special premiere episode, Hollywood actor Erik Aude is on the brink of stardom after acting in a supporting role in “Dude, Where My Car?”, never imagining the possibility of being locked up in Pakistan, beaten and tortured routinely, unless as part of a movie script. But his nightmare is realized when Pakistani police discover opium in the lining of his suitcase — a crime he didn’t know he was committing.
This setup resulted in a nearly three-year nightmare that not many would have survived to tell. Now, Aude tells his story and re-enacts each moment — from innocently traveling in a new country to his initial detainment and endless brutal beatings.
“I have waited more than eight years to share the details of my story,” said Aude. “Locked Up Abroad provided me an opportunity to share exactly what happened in my own words, with my own re-enactment and on my own terms. Through this experience, I can now move beyond those excruciating times.”
Additionally, NGC takes a brand-new approach to the series with the debut of Locked Up Abroad: Popped, based off VH1’s retro hit show Pop-Up Video. It’s the heart-pounding Locked Up Abroad episodes viewers love, but now with the beloved, bubbled bits of knowledge and insight added to the screen action. A four-hour marathon kicks off Friday, April 20, at 8 PM ET/PT.
Other regular Locked Up Abroad episodes this season include:
• A magician’s smuggling act of swallowing pellets of hash and transporting them from Nepal provides easy cash, but when diahhrea hits, he’s forced to body-pack the hash instead.
• A divorced mother of three is locked in a Peruvian jail and thinks her breast cancer — once in remission — has returned. Jumping her parole, she makes a bold escape for Ecuador.
• Stephen Comiskey starts a romance with another man in Saudi Arabia — where homosexuality is outlawed. When religious police track him down, he fears execution.
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