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"It almost felt as if the producers had driven into the car park of the nearest Bunnings and just thrown a bag over a dozen or so random punters."

The queue at the sausage sizzle being renditioned to Tasmania to survive in the bush would make super compelling television.

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"driven into the car park of the nearest Bunnings and just thrown a bag over a dozen or so random punters"... see now I'm interested I'd watch the hell out of that.

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Same.

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ha exactly spot on. Its almost like they had to put in a one sentence application. "i like crystals" or "i owned a pocket knife once"

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I barbecue real meat. Can’t be much tougher than that right?

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We haven't watched anything on SBS On Demand for a while, but came back the other day to watch Clean Sweep, but after ms insomniac fell asleep, I stopped watching and went back as far as the 'keep watching' screen, where I can see we're up to s2, e3 of Alone, despite no one in the household having watched any of it.

But yes, it appears more real than Survivor from what I've read, but nowhere near as real as Snowflake Mountain where a bunch of very high maintenance peeps get a bit of tough love. The first ep has them having to put their 'essentials' into a tiny bag while the rest of their luggage is put on a trailer with the pretense of it going on to camp, but then the hosts/guides just blow it up, with splosions.

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Oh. My. God.

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WHERE CAN I FIND THIS WONDERFUL SHOW?!?

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That would be Netflix, and I see they have a second season.

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I've been looking for something to watch having finished the latest seasons of both Taskmaster and Great British Bake Off. This could fit the bill nicely.

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My favourite bit of Alone Australia was the person crying because it was too wet to light a fire, and she couldn't boil water to drink.

This was all happening as she sits under her tarp in the pissing down rain with water pouring over the side of the tarp.

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