New Discovery Channel Show

[Guest bkelm18]

Just saw a commercial for a new show on Discovery called 'The Colony'. Kind of a post-apocalypse survival show. Here's the description from the web page:

The Colony: About the Show : Discovery Channel

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 Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 10 p.m. ET/PT to see who thrives and who fails to survive

Sounds pretty interesting. Hope it doesn't turn out to be the usual reality show drivel, but it probably will be.

[Guest canynracer]

hmmm...sure is a lot of focus on disasters/ end of the world stuff...LOL....outdoors channel has survival on american guardian...and best defense also had it...

wonder why....LOL

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[Guest tadams]

"Best Defense" hinted at the end of season review that there's something similar (maybe different?) in the works for the upcoming season, too.

edit: already being discussed here and is already airing... I didn't reaize that

Edited July 2, 2009 by tadams
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[BrandonTN]

The Colony is starting now...

[Guest proudsuthrner]

i'm watching it right now.. kinda interesting, so far, i think

[Rightwinger]

Already moved on....missed the first 15 or 20 anyway and it looks like big brother without the cute girls in the pool. Sad, because I can watch every re-run of Deadliest Catch but this thing didn't hold my interest 5 minutes.

Hey, Cops is on!

[kckndrgn]

It was alright, slow that is for sure. I'll give it one or 2 more episodes before I stop watching it.

They seem to have picked the right characters so there will be much "in-fighting" between them, just added drama for the sheeple.

I did like the old guy, the EE from IBM.