Inside TV’s most hellish show: ‘We didn’t eat any food for four days’

‘My body was literally shutting down,’ one contestant said (Picture: Matthew Salacuse/Channel 4)

What’s the first thing you’d do in an apocalypse?

Run to the mountains? Raid the nearest supermarket? Just curl into a ball and cry?

Channel 4’s newest reality TV show, the aptly titled Apocalypse, is the closest television can possibly get to finding out what would really happen to a pack of ordinary humans at the end of days. It’s easily the most extreme reality TV show since Bear Grylls: The Island, but without the par...