UK version of Alone.

[Harold Godwinson]

I've just been reading on line that channel 4 has a production company called The garden (I think) making a UK version of Alone?

Does any one here have any more information on this? What's the word on the ground?

Can not find much on line other than a release date of possibly April?

 

[Tony]

I saw an advert for signing up to be on something like this a few months ago, although there's a few like that so could be confused. Wasn't there a UK one where they were supposed to be surviving naked in the UK?

 

[Dan1982]

I believe that this was filmed in autumn last year and is currently in post production. Due to air on Channel 4 sometime this year.

 

[Jared]

Their press release on 23 August 2022 says it was commissioned. Must have moved pretty fast if in post. Just hope it's not embarrassingly short because contestants dropped like flies.

The Garden brings Alone to Channel 4 | Channel 4

Channel 4 has commissioned The Garden to make the first UK series of the international survival hit Alone. Alone is TV’s most extreme and uncompromising survival experiment: the ultimate test of endurance and ingenuity, in one of the most beautiful but challenging landscapes on earth.

www.channel4.com

 

[Kav]

Survival Lily’s blurred derrière turned me off all iterations of the genre.

 

[Erbswurst]

Might be interesting to see a few guys sitting naked and alone on a Scottish meadow playing with a ferro rod.

I think I would like it, especially if it rains a bit.

 

[Scottieoutdoors]

Might be interesting to see a few guys sitting naked and alone on a Scottish meadow playing with a ferro rod.

I think I would like it, especially if it rains a bit.

oo-er....

...not quite my scene, I'm happily married...to a woman, I might add!

 

[Suffolkrafter]

oo-er....

...not quite my scene, I'm happily married...to a woman, I might add!

I remember reading that in the episode with survival lilly her partner had his 'ferro rod' burned by a flying ember. Or am I imagining that? Seems phenomenally unlucky if true.

 

[Kav]

Why do I envision a shield wall worth of Saxon reenactors, Button People, Bikers and PETA protesting a local pig farmer colliding with a episode being filmed as several BCUK members, unaware of each other’s presence are stealth camping. A scene, worthy of Homer

 

[Drabbers_Into_the_Bush]

On All4 there is a program called Naked alone and a race to get home.
2 couples race over 3 day 2 nights for £5k only 6 episodes. It's ok very basic could be better if done for a longer time

 

[Kav]

Harry and Megan ‘ get by’ a short drive up the coast from me in a neighborhood of pretty ‘ comfortable’ people with less worries than many.
With the histrionics going on, They could do an episode of ‘ALONE’
Not to bash your institution, but I thought my family had issues!

 

[Dan1982]

As I said previously… this was filmed nearly a year ago. Airing early august.

Eleven people take on the ultimate test of survival Alone in Canadian wilderness | Channel 4

This August (TX: Sundays at 9pm from 6 August on Channel 4), eleven ordinary people face the ultimate test of survival. Dropped, completely ALONE, in the remote wilderness of north-west Canada, each of them have challenged themselves to take part in the most pure and extreme competition on TV -...

www.channel4.com

 

[Jared]

Two people in Micklagaard wool smocks, they've watched the US series.

 

[1 pot hunter]

I've just been reading on line that channel 4 has a production company called The garden (I think) making a UK version of Alone?

Does any one here have any more information on this? What's the word on the ground?

Can not find much on line other than a release date of possibly April?

The alone series is most fake staged program ever albeit slightly entertaining .They pull u out show Iff your bmi is off n other metrics usually the most obese person wins due to this reason

 

[1 pot hunter]

I've just been reading on line that channel 4 has a production company called The garden (I think) making a UK version of Alone?

Does any one here have any more information on this? What's the word on the ground?

Can not find much on line other than a release date of possibly April?

I’m curious as to how this was made legal in U.K. unless it’s on a crazy remote Scottish island

 

[1 pot hunter]

I've just been reading on line that channel 4 has a production company called The garden (I think) making a UK version of Alone?

Does any one here have any more information on this? What's the word on the ground?

Can not find much on line other than a release date of possibly April?

Also to make the competition fair there should be a maximum cut off point for body fat % no contestant should be over 20%

 

[Man of Tanith]

I’m curious as to how this was made legal in U.K. unless it’s on a crazy remote Scottish island

They travelled to Canada to film it I believe. The participants are all from the UK.

The alone series is most fake staged program ever albeit slightly entertaining .They pull u out show Iff your bmi is off n other metrics usually the most obese person wins due to this reason

How exactly does having proper safety measures to ensure that no one dies make it staged?
Whilst a lot of the contestants add weight which is a sensible tactic, for most the added padding rapidly gets lost as they build shelters, and investigate the area.

I think there has been a few larger folk who have tapped out and certainly Woniya who was in season 6 then won the Alone Frozen was not obese, the winner of season 8 Clay was not obese at the start nor the end, the mental fortitude and grit is definitely the factor rather than if they have had a second helping of pudding.

 

[Forest fella]

1 of my mates told me last night that it's on Sunday Ch4.
''Edited'' Dan1982's post already say's this.
Dope

 

[Toddy]

Does anyone else wonder at the sheer strangeness of this pretending while a film crew works ? Of actually wanting to participate ?

I'm sure that the people 'enduring' are having a hard time, but it is rather manufactured to suit an agenda.
I have worked behind the scenes for a couple of films; I know that what appears on the screen is often so far removed from the reality of the filming that it's out on the Oort cloud.

'reality' tv just strikes me as fantasy.

 

[Mesquite]

Does anyone else wonder at the sheer strangeness of this pretending while a film crew works ? Of actually wanting to participate ?

I'm sure that the people 'enduring' are having a hard time, but it is rather manufactured to suit an agenda.
I have worked behind the scenes for a couple of films; I know that what appears on the screen is often so far removed from the reality of the filming that it's out on the Oort cloud.

'reality' tv just strikes me as fantasy.

A majority of time the film crew aren't present when doing 'Alone' and it's down to the contestants to do the actual filming. They then leave the memory cards and spent batteries at a designated spot for the crew to swap out. Contestants are alone for extended periods of time. They'll have medical check ups as time progresses but that's about all the contact they have

Reality TV with films crews present is totally different and is deliberately engineered to cause stress and strife for the sake of 'good' viewing.