----- 3 stars ----- Reality TV’s Wildest Disaster / New Yorker "A group of twenty-three skilled strangers would live in the wilderness, isolated from the world, for a year. 'Eden' would be austere and searching. There would be no tasks, evictions, or prizes. The cast members would build their own shelters and hunt and grow their food while a small embedded crew and a rig of remote cameras observed every minute of the embryonic society. The project was the work of Keo Films, a production company that had never made a reality show. 'It certainly set out to be a pure experience,' Ian Dunkley, who helped commission 'Eden' for Channel 4, told me recently. 'Genuinely, we did not know how it would pan out.' "
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----- 3 stars ----- Reality TV’s Wildest Disaster / New Yorker "A group of twenty-three skilled strangers would live in the wilderness, isolated from the world, for a year. 'Eden' would be austere and searching. There would be no tasks, evictions, or prizes. The cast members would build their own shelters and hunt and grow their food while a small embedded crew and a rig of remote cameras observed every minute of the embryonic society. The project was the work of Keo Films, a production company that had never made a reality show. 'It certainly set out to be a pure experience,' Ian Dunkley, who helped commission 'Eden' for Channel 4, told me recently. 'Genuinely, we did not know how it would pan out.' "
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