No food, no water, and lone Abba record: my day out at Channel 4’s hellish new reality show
Apocalypse dumps contestants in an abandoned town without essential supplies.
Is it a serious test of endurance or just titillation? Our writer is parachuted in to find out I have no shame confessing that I’d be a crap companion during the apocalypse.
My practical skills are limited, I’d be a right Debbie Downer and I don’t respond well to sharing food.
Still, last November, two survival experts spent a morning making a valiant effort to prepare me for Armageddon deep in the rural Indiana countryside.
I had ventured to the US midwest to see the making of Apocalypse, an ambitious new Channel 4 reality series: an eight-parter following 16 people attempting to sustain themselves after an unexplained catastrophe from which only they appear to have survived.
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