As long as they don't have Raquel Welsh in some sort of felt bikini, it could be ok.

If it's channel 5 I assume it's about people who claimed benefits 10,000 years ago.

Sorry Carnelian i should have put a synopsis in the OP, they are sending 20 people back to the stone age in a reality tv show

Oh, I heard of this and was hoping it was a sci-fi sort of thing but looks like the usual!

Those of a certain age might remember BBC2 did a stone age reality show (before they were called reality shows) back in the early 80s. Might not have been stone age, probably more Anglo Saxon/Viking type thing.

I take it all back; that could be quite interesting.

It does Col, but then again it's Ch5 so it could be a load of crap too, i'll give it a whirl i think 

To reinvent the wheel?  

I've not seen any trailers yet, but it could be a giggle 

Was that the one when they lived on an Iron Age farm for a year?

I have seen a similar program in the past 

I think it was Living in the Past:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...Past_%28TV_series%29

Back in September when Channel 5 was sold I posted about 10000 BC and said that Channel 5 was describing it as an entertainment show. I posted a link to their announcement:

http://about.channel5.com/node/2041

 C5 will work in a few bikinis, knowing them. 

yeah, I think so, something like that.  Very popular at the time IIRC

I think 10000 BC has 10 episodes shown over 8 weeks. First epsiode 10pm next Monday, second episode next Tuesday, then presumably weekly until the last week.

When we first discussed this, I mentioned that someone I knew who was into historical re-enactments used to joke that you couldn't consider it properly realistic until everyone involved had come down with - at the very least - rampant dysentery, It looks like I wasn't far off the mark...

After two days with a survival expert, they are left to fend for themselves - and things get off to a bad start.

In episode one, the tribe are dropped in the forest where they meet survival expert Klint, who takes them to their Mesolithic style camp, where they have to dig latrines and light fires before nightfall. Supplied with a dead deer for food, they fail to get the blaze going and go to bed cold and hungry - only to find their precious meat overrun with maggot larvae the following morning.

Within 24 hours Caroline suffers from heat exhaustion, Perry is an emotional wreck and Josie begins to realise the Stone Age is not the best era for a vegetarian.

In the second episode, the arguments start after designated leader Steve calls a meeting and one of the cavewomen discovers human faeces in the camp.

Somehow, I don't think I'll be watching...

Sounds quite grim  I might watch it 

  Its true Velvet. 

It sounds a bit like that Bear Grylls Island show, only worse.

Anyone been watching? I think it's brilliant cos they are just rubbish at living that way!  The producers face when he had to come in and discuss giving them some sustenance was like thunder! 

 Yes exactly Machel. They're absolutely rubbish  I would genuinely like to have seen the neolithic way of living, but its morphed into a tragi-comedy now.

Was that 10,000 yrs ago?

See what I did there haw haw haw

 ya big eejit

Now that may be the only thing that would entice me to watch. 

I'm guessing it will be on too late for me to watch as my bedtime is 9:30 now.