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Headie · 29-06-2016, 04:30 PM

I'm excited but the only thing I'm not sure about is the fact that it doesn't seem to be a competitive show or have eliminations or anything, so I'm worried it's gonna end up like Bear Grylls's The Island or something which I never really got into

armand.kay · 29-06-2016, 04:42 PM

Not gonna lie I think I auditioned for this and they emailed me saying they were interested and asked me to send a vid but i completely forgot about ha and never made a vid. Although they were calling it "perfect world" so could be a completely different thing but the concept sounded similar and the "what if you could start again" thing was mentioned a few times. cah

y.winter · 29-06-2016, 06:25 PM

So they basically wanted to do Utopia and used this old show's vague format from 2003 to avoid copyrights' payment?

But I'm really excited seeing how is it going to be. Unfortunately Utopia NL doesn't have subtitles so I couldn't really watch it, though the format is interesting (and I'm not into American reality shows so I couldn't bother watching their version).
In a few weeks time

Make it real and natural, C4.

reece(: · 29-06-2016, 06:34 PM

I'm still pressed Utopia was axed after all the potential it had

Samm · 29-06-2016, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Hayden

I'm excited but the only thing I'm not sure about is the fact that it doesn't seem to be a competitive show or have eliminations or anything, so I'm worried it's gonna end up like Bear Grylls's The Island or something which I never really got into

Maybe they'll do eliminations by deciding within the group like what Utopia did, I think someone will quit I doubt all of them will last a year

and all my favs will stay without the threat of being evicted as well by the horrid public vote

Headie · 29-06-2016, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by reece(:

I'm still pressed Utopia was axed after all the potential it had

It easily had the best premiere of any show in 2014!

zakman440 · 06-07-2016, 06:32 PM

It's starting on the 18th at 9PM.

Headie · 06-07-2016, 06:33 PM

Hopefully the cast will be diverse

If they replicate the C4 casting they did in the BB golden era <333

Samm · 06-07-2016, 07:42 PM

Yass really perched for this

Ross. · 06-07-2016, 07:46 PM

Here for it

Jack_ · 06-07-2016, 07:47 PM

Looking forward to this, I enjoyed Utopia but never actually got round to finishing the final few episodes

Do we know how often it's airing?

Headie · 06-07-2016, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jack_

Looking forward to this, I enjoyed Utopia but never actually got round to finishing the final few episodes

Do we know how often it's airing?

It's supposed to be running for a year so I'm guessing one ep per week (just a guess tho)

Samm · 06-07-2016, 08:16 PM

I hope there's live feed

Headie · 06-07-2016, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Samm

I hope there's live feed

Same but I'm doubtful tbh, I can't remember the last time a UK show did proper Live Feed other than BB and IAC (a while ago)

y.winter · 06-07-2016, 08:22 PM

I count on C4 to make it old school. We don't need it to be another scripted 20-somethin-in-bikini reality shows.

zakman440 · 06-07-2016, 08:26 PM

Apparently there were protests about the filming location

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CHANNEL 4 will take over a Lochaber woodland for a year-long reality TV survival show despite local objections.

Producers have won a battle to film Eden, a year-long documentary about 24 skilled people selected to live together in the wilderness, at the Ardnamurchan estate.

The participants - who will be filmed round the clock - will be expected to hunt for food, grow crops and build their own shelter.

The series will follows in the footsteps of the BBC series Castaway 2000 which made a star of presenter Ben Fogle.

However a number of people living nearby the site had submitted strong objections to Highland Council over the plans.

They said the filming could spoil an area of natural beauty, cause pollution and damage to wildlife and have a negative impact on the local economy.

However, at a committee meeting today councillors voted in favour of the application by KEO Films, the production company commissioned by Channel 4 to create the show.

Councillor Andrew Baxter, of the Highland Alliance Party, said: “I am prepared to accept this application due to the transitory nature of it.

“I have a wry smile when the applicant says it is a documentary. Let’s face it, it is a reality TV show.

“But I am sure people across the country will watch it with interest and it will help tourism in the area.”

His colleague councillor Donnie Kerr said: “My only concern is that it is an area of natural beauty and we don’t want to see anything being built there that shouldn’t be there.

“Apart from that I am remarkably relaxed about this. It will provide a good source of nutrition for the local midges.”

The site lies on the sparsely populated Ardnamurchan Estate, northwest of Acharacle, a region famed for its natural beauty and sporting appeal.

Two locations on the 600-acre site, between Cul na Croise beach and a conifer forest further inland, have been identified as potential settlement areas for participants in the show.

Two dozen volunteers will build their own remote community within the estate, where they will hunt for their own food, build their own shelter and live self-sufficiently for 12 months.

As well as the settlements, eight portable cabins for the show’s production team will be built along with a car park built.

Margaret Green, of Dal-Ghorm House, a property which lies adjacent to the forest, said: “It is not a wilderness, but it is really not suitable for people to live there, because it is forestry.

“I am concerned about what will happen to the wildlife, and that there will be pollution.”

Another objector, Pamela Powell, said: “I am very concerned about the environmental impact of this project as birds nest on the beaches and in the dunes and various species of mammals and insects are present which, along with the plant life, make up a small but important ecosystem.

“This project is not in fact taking place in a very remote wilderness as the publicity suggests. It is only a few kms down a good track to Acharacle village and there are houses even closer than that.

“A fence is already going up which, despite what has been claimed, will restrict access between the beaches.

“These beaches are visited regularly by locals and tourists without the scale of environmental damage likely to be caused by a group living and working there for a prolonged period of time.”

A separate decision on whether the film-makers can restrict roaming access to the site is due to be made by Scottish Ministers.

Channel 4 said that Eden sought to set itself apart from Castaway 2000, which was filmed on the Outer Hebridean island of Taransay, by allowing the participants to film themselves.

Liam Humphreys, head of factual entertainment at Channel 4, said: “It promises to be a bold idea, not least because of the scale of the concept but also because as programme makers we have absolutely no idea what will happen.”

http://www.scotsman.com/news/channel...#ixzz4Df7kZJKh

y.winter · 06-07-2016, 08:35 PM

More info:

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In a remote corner of the UK, 23 men and women try to build a new life and new society from scratch, isolated from the rest of the world.

Eden challenges everything about modern living. Over an entire year, a group including a doctor, vet, chef, carpenter and shepherdess create a new society in a remote location in the UK.

Testimonial:

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"I'm probably going to turn out completely feral and become like Gollum sitting on a rock by the sea and not need anything! We'll see..."