APOCALYPSE: CHANNEL 4 ANNOUNCES NEW REALITY SURVIVAL COMPETITION SERIES

Channel 4 have confirmed the commission of Apocalypse (previously titled Survive The City), a new eight-part reality format from The Garden, who produced Alone for the broadcaster.

In this bold and ambitious social experiment, Channel 4 is sending a group of ordinary people to a jaw dropping, real world location - an abandoned town that bears all the hallmarks of being ravaged by an apocalyptic event.  They'll have to survive for 28 days without running water, heating, or electricity. They'll need to scavenge for food and supplies, reusing and repurposing anything they find but only if they can muster skills and wherewithal to do it. 

In a world with limited resources, will the contestants form a group and work together, or will the group fall apart and become survival of the fittest and smartest. Ian Dunkley, commissioning editor at Channel 4 says: “Apocalypse will be the real deal - ordinary people in an authentic urban setting facing extraordinary but completely credible challenges. We’ve all wondered how we would cope if disaster struck close to home, and this series promises to give us a very good idea.”

Nicola Brown, Creative Director at The Garden says: “Apocalypse is a hugely ambitious new take on the beloved survival genre.  We're dropping our cast in an incredible urban landscape, filled with the debris of modern life.  In this alien yet familiar world, they'll start again from scratch, and discover what's really important to them. We can't wait to chart the highs and lows as our cast face a series of tough choices, battling the environment and perhaps even each other...”

Meanwhile, earlier this year Channel 4 announced the commission of The Hunt, a heart-pounding, high-stakes game of predator versus prey, where there is only one rule – hunt or be hunted.

Deep in a vast unforgiving forest, contestants are dropped into the ultimate real-world game of hide and seek - where losing means walking away with nothing and winning could mean pocketing up to £100,000. Surviving the game isn’t about being the fastest. It’s about being the smartest.

Each episode is built around a tense, dog-eat-dog hunt, where each player becomes either a Predator or Prey. The Prey hold the cash, desperately trying to protect their winnings while completing challenges to win more money. The Predators must hunt them down and steal their cash. If they succeed their roles are reversed and the entire game flips, with Predators suddenly become Prey.

Wearing cutting-edge tracking technology, no player can hide for long in the dense forest hunting ground. Each player must keep moving to remain in the game or forfeit their money.

Clever alliances, strategic teamwork, and mind games are the key to survival as at the end of each hunt, back at a futuristic basecamp it’s time, one player will face elimination from the game.

With every episode, the intensity escalates, fortunes shift, alliances shatter, and only the sharpest, strongest, and savviest will make it to the final showdown. Who will master the chase? Who will outthink the hunt? And who will walk away with the life-changing prize?

Steven Handley, Channel 4’s Head of Reality & Entertainment, comments: “The Hunt delivers high-octane Adventure Reality and takes innovative gaming tech to create a world where viewers can experience in real time what happens when we re-engage our primal instincts. I can’t wait to discover what strategies a group of ordinary Brits will use to survive in a world where there is only one rule – hunt or be hunted.”

More details on both titles will be announced in due course.