Channel 4’s new show makes me worry for the future of humanity

The new survival show Apocalypse is dispiriting (Picture: Matthew Salacuse/Channel 4

There’s a moment towards the start of Channel 4’s new survival show, Apocalypse, that sums it up nicely. 

The sun has set. The team of contestants – stuck in the middle of an abandoned town somewhere in America – are debating what to do. They have no resources except for one torch, but as one of them goes to take it, Celia (a local politician in her normal life), refuses to give it over. 

‘I don’t want to be in the dark,’ she explains. Cue incredulous looks. In the end, Celia keeps the torch, seemingly impervious to the glares being thrown her way, while the others have to make do with fumb...