Channel 4 seeks Eden

Beginning in 2016 the series will follow the experience of 23 UK men and women as they face the challenge of  building a new life and creating a new society from scratch. For an entire year the group - which includes a doctor, vet, chef, carpenter and shepherdess - will get the chance to start again, deciding how they want to live as a community isolated from the rest of the modern world.

The series will be filmed from the inside by an embedded crew, personal cameras and a fixed rig across a huge expanse of land in a remote part of the UK.  With no prescribed infrastructure, the group will take in with them only what they can carry and the basics needed to kick start their experience. After that, together they must decide on their own rules and laws, build their own shelter, grow their own food & raise their own livestock.

The series aims to challenge everything about modern living, raising questions about what we need to be happy, what we want from our communities and how we are all influenced by society as a whole.

The series was commissioned for Channel 4 by Head of Factual Entertainment Liam Humphreys and Factual Entertainment commissioning editor Ian Dunkley. It will be produced by KEO Films with Executive Producer Colleen Flynn. The series will TX in 2016.