The WORST episodes of Ross Kemp: Extreme World
Every episode of Ross Kemp: Extreme World ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Ross Kemp: Extreme World!
Ross Kemp travels to Mexico, Congo, Chicago, Haiti and even the UK. In each episode, Ross confronts criminals responsible for drug dealing, human trafficking, murder and rape. He also sees the human cost of these crimes and meets those who risk their lives in the pursuit of justice.
#1 - USA/Mexico
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/2016
On the USA-Mexico border, Ross discovers the harsh realities for the men and women attempting to make a new life in America and learns how their journey is becoming increasingly deadly, meeting the traffickers exploiting the migrants and the border patrols determined to stop them. The actor examines what drives people to make this dangerous crossing, the practicalities of preventing them and the role the migrants play in America's economy
#2 - Rio de Janeiro
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/25/2014
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 – 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.
#3 - Ukraine
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/2015
The compelling documentary series returns as Ross Kemp visits Ukraine to investigate the rise of the far right in the country's war with pro-Russia separatists.
#4 - South Africa
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/29/2015
It’s 20 years since apartheid officially ended in South Africa, but for too many of its citizens, life is still a harsh fight against poverty and other urban ills. Ross Kemp is in the Diepsloot township in Johannesburg, where rape has reached epidemic levels, and where some 45 per cent of reported rapes are against children. Where there’s no electricity for lighting at night, narrow alleys and ready access to drink, drugs and guns, women and children will always be vulnerable, but the stories Kemp hears – from victims, perpetrators, township vigilantes and those trying to help – make for distressing viewing, and leave him reeling, despite his worthy attempt to give everyone a fair hearing. And why do so few rapes end in prosecution? A permanent solution appears to be a long way off.
#5 - Honduras
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/2015
Honduras. Ruled by drug gangs, thousands of residents have tried to flee on a train known as 'The Beast'.
#6 - Calais
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/12/2015
Ross is in Calais, where thousands of migrants are living in squalor waiting to risk their lives to reach to make their way to Britain and claim asylum.
#7 - Memphis
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/2015
Ross makes his way to Memphis, one of the most segregated cities in America to find out why so many African-Americans are worse off today than they were 50 years ago.
#8 - Britain's Deprived Coast
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/5/2015
Ross takes a look at the impact a boom in cheap foreign holidays has had on some of Britain’s most famous seaside towns.
#9 - Mongolia
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/2016
In Mongolia, Ross examines the rise in violent far-right vigilante groups, who fear their country's identity is under threat from foreign influence
#10 - Kenya and Tanzania
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/2012
Ross is in the African countries of Kenya and Tanzania, where a belief in witchcraft is deadly and deeply entrenched.
#11 - Mozambique
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2016
Ross investigates the violent and corrupt world of elephant poaching in Mozambique. If the slaughter continues at its current rate, the animal will be extinct in the country within five years, so he goes undercover to expose the traders who will sell ivory for export to the Far East. He discovers how weak the official response to the crisis has been and also reveals how China's growing prosperity increases demand
#12 - Syria
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/2016
The actor heads to Syria, where he experiences the Kurdish peoples' fight against ISIS when he is pinned down by sniper fire on the frontline. As he travels across Kurdish-held territory to investigate the fight against the jihadists first hand, Ross meets Kurdish men and women fighters, as well as victims of ISIS occupation, and witnesses the new Kurdish state of Rojava come into being
#13 - Texas
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2017
The actor travels to more of the most dangerous places on Earth, beginning by heading to Austin, Texas, to investigate growing racial tension in the wake of President Trump's election. He discovers hate groups are gaining in popularity and extremists on both sides are arming themselves for a race war, and speaks to members of the Ku Klux Klan and a black separatist militia group
#14 - West Bank
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/15/2017
Ross Kemp is unflappable as he investigates the devastating physical and psychological impact that a new drug called hydro is having on the local Palestinian and Israeli populations. With such a fractious political situation in the region and the police forces unable to work together, it’s a complex problem that’s being left up to local communities to try to solve themselves
#15 - Manila
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/2017
This edition uncovers the dark underbelly of crystal meth use in the Philippines and the country’s new — and highly controversial — 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’s the police who appear to be the ones giving the orders.
#16 - Naples
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/29/2017
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
#17 - Madagascar
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/6/2017
Ross heads deep into Madagascar's bandit lands as he investigates how organised and murderous cattle rustling gangs have villagers living in fear.
#18 - Libya
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/2017
Ross travels to North Africa as he investigates the arduous journeys taken by those desperate to leave Libya for Europe.
#19 - India
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2014
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
#20 - Beirut, Lebanon
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/11/2014
Ross visits the Middle East where Lebanon is on the brink of civil war as the conflict in neighbouring Syria intensifies.
#21 - Northern Ireland
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/4/2014
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.
#22 - New Orleans
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/2012
Ross attempts to find out why, seven years on from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is the city that never been able to heal.
#23 - Karachi
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2012
Ross and the team find themselves being caught in cross-fire as they report on the battle for Karachi in Pakistan.
#24 - Haiti
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/2011
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.
#25 - Chicago
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/2011
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.