Billy Connolly: Journey to The Edge of The World

In this inspiring series, the world-famous comedian Billy Connolly (Open Season, Mrs Brown) turns explorer as he embarks on a rare and remote journey attempted and failed by hundreds before him through the treacherous Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In this opening episode, Billy sets out on an adventure of a lifetime.

In the second part of his journey Billy moves into bleaker and tougher terrain as he heads north to Baffin Island. He meets the Inuit communities that live there to find out what it's like to live on the edge of the world. He samples their food, gets a seal-skin suit made and learns about the local trades and hobbies. Billy then takes in the jaw-dropping scenery as he flies by helicopter into a national park in the Arctic Circle and he goes on a stomach-churning seal hunt with an Inuit family.

On the third leg of his adventure, Billy boards a cruise ship to make the eight-day journey through the Northwest Passage meeting the many people who live in this remote, isolated part of the world which spends nine months of the year surrounded by frozen sea.

As Billy nears the end of his 10,000 mile journey he heads even further south towards Vancouver Island through the isolated White Pass Mountains which are below freezing for most of the year.