Contestants who spent a year fending for themselves in the wilderness as part of a reality show left to discover it had been off air for seven months.
Channel 4 sent a group of people to a remote part of the Scottish Highlands with the task of building a new society for the programme Eden.
But due to terrible viewing figures only four episodes of social experiment were shown last summer according to Daily Mail.
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The 23 volunteers battled hunger, infighting and isolation with some having to resort to eating chicken feed to survive.