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There are a number of new television shows (The Wanted, The Colony, Survival Sundays On NBC ) and movies related to homeland security, emergency preparedness and disaster survival either on the air, or in production. The article below mentions several and we’re aware of at least 3 others not listed. There are probably several more.
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From The Road and 2012 to Colony and Day One, Apocalypse Movies and TV Shows Dominate
A new crop of Hollywood disaster flicks coming this fall deal not with the fall of civilization but the struggles of post-apocalyptic survivors.
A flood of postapocalyptic stories is now headed toward movie theaters and TV screens: Expect to see characters fending off cannibals, picking up day-to-day survival techniques and struggling to maintain their humanity amid the ruins. Previous waves of pop-culture disaster, from the Atomic Age paranoia of “War of the Worlds” to Watergate-era flicks such as “The Towering Inferno,” have depicted calamity in stunning detail. Many of the new projects, however, actually skip the spectacle of doomsday. Instead, they’re more fixed on what goes down in the aftermath.
In “The Book of Eli,” a movie scheduled for January, Denzel Washington plays the fierce protector of a book that holds the key to mankind’s redemption in an American wasteland created by a war 30 years earlier. “Day One,” a series coming to NBC in March, follows a handful of neighbors trying to survive and understand a calamity that erased the world’s infrastructure. “The Colony,” now airing on Discovery Channel, is a reality show set in an imagined end-times period in which contestants hunt for food, water and shelter after a presumed disaster.
The Colony On Discovery Channel Premieres Tuesday
The Colony on Discovery
Discovery Channel has announced The Colony, a new reality series that will isolate a group of participants for two months and require them to create a sustainable society inside an abandoned warehouse, will premiere Tuesday, July 21 at 10PM ET/PT.
The Colony which the network is billing as “a groundbreaking experiment” that will attempt to determine what would happen after a “global catastrophe” will begin with 10 people moving into a 50,000 square-foot abandoned warehouse on a three-and-a-half acre plot near the Los Angeles River in downtown Los Angeles.
Once there, The Colony’s participants will spend the next two months attempting to create a livable society inside the warehouse using only their personal skills and whatever tools and supplies they can recover from their surroundings.The warehouse is without modern amenities such as electricity, running water and communication with the outside world.
According to the network, the space was designed by homeland security, engineering and psychology experts who used elements from both real-life disasters and models of what the future could look like after a global catastrophe.
Throughout the series, the experts who designed the space will offer insight to viewers on challenges the participants could face in the context of real-world disasters as they work together to build the necessities of survival and society — such as a water filtration system, a battery bank for electricity, a solar cooker, a shower system and a greenhouse.
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In addition, different tools and sparse food items will be “strategically placed” in the space to represent what might be viably available in an urban post-disaster landscape based on actual event data recorded during past real-life catastrophes.
As part of the experiment, the participants will also be challenged by “a hostile gang of looters and thugs” who threaten their security and force them to devise a safety plan to protect themselves.
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