Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Colony

How'd I miss this new reality TV show? Might have something to do with not watching TV. From the Colony website:

What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? How would you find food? Water? Shelter?

The Colony is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under these circumstances. For 10 weeks, a group of 10 volunteers, whose backgrounds and expertise represent a cross-section of modern society, are isolated in an urban environment outside Los Angeles and tasked with creating a livable society.

With no electricity from the grid, no running water and no communication with the outside world, all the volunteers have to work with are their skills and whatever tools and supplies they can scavenge from their surroundings.

Experts from the fields of homeland security, engineering and psychology have helped design the world of The Colony to reflect elements from both real-life disasters and models of what the future could look like after a global viral outbreak.

Over the course of the 10-week experiment, the Colonists must work together to build the necessities of survival, such as a water-filtration system, a battery bank that powered their electricity, a solar cooker, a shower system and a greenhouse – and even some niceties (a coffee maker!).

Tune in Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT to see who thrives and who fails to survive.


I'll have to check this out...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was disappointed in this show. Most of there projects were driven by the producers and many of the things they should have been doing to survive were not shown/done. As an example they made lye soap at one point but did not mention it until several weeks later after it had cured. I assume this is because lye is dangerous and they were worried about liability from people trying to make soap at home and burning themselves.

CinemaObsessed said...

Great blog! We love apocolyptic themes!

Snake Eyes said...

awsome blog with lots of great info. I'm also working on a post apocalyptic survival guide and I'm wodering if your interested in doing a link exchange the link to my site is http://therazorsedge.weebly.com

Please check it out and let me know if you would be interested

Kristen said...

I liked the show -- but let's be honest here...Are you really going to be stuck with a computer engineer, a marine biologist, a nurse, a doctor, a fabricator, and all those other sorts of extremely handy people? No. The show was spectacular don't get me wrong! But those facts above combined with the fact that they were given advice by the people making the show, well, it really wasn't as real as they could have made it. And yeah, this comment is several years late, so sue me. I just watched the first season of The Colony on Netflix!