Jesus can walk on water, but he still gets a little spooked rappelling down a mountainside. Thankfully, our Jesus for our time — Jonathan Roumie in The Chosen — counts Bear Grylls among his disciples. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
On Wednesday, Amazon Prime Video released the trailer for the crossover TV event of the A.D. era: The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls. In the series, Roumie, Paras Patel (Matthew in The Chosen), Elizabeth Tabish (Mary Magdalene), Noah James (Andrew), Luke Dimyan (Judas) and series creator and executive producer Dallas Jenkins jump from planes, scale cliffs, eat scorpions (because W.W.J.D., I guess), zipline over canyons and “navigate some of the country’s most rugged terrain under the guidance of renowned adventurer Bear Grylls,” per the synopsis. Personally, I wouldn’t fall asleep around Dimyan if I were Roumie.
Why to all of this? Well, the answer, in part, is probably because summer is traditionally a very slow period for TV — The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls premieres Aug. 9, 2026. Plus, the rights became available after Jenkins and his former partner Angel Studios had a non-Christian-like falling out.
In 2025, Amazon MGM Studios inked a first-look, multi-faceted deal with Jenkins’ 5&2 Studios. The arrangement gives Amazon/MGM this show, the streaming rights to the first five seasons of The Chosen, The Chosen Adventures and Joseph of Egypt. It also includes theatrical and streaming rights to The Chosen‘s upcoming final two seasons, which will follow the Crucifixion (season six) and the Resurrection (season seven).
