Underplayed Gems

Dumped (2007)

Dumped poster
Genre
reality television
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Elsewhere
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Eleven contestants live on a rubbish dump for three weeks. They must survive using only what they find. The ones who last the full 21 days split a £20,000 prize.

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What happens

Dumped is a British reality television programme which started on 2 September 2007 and aired nightly until 5 September 2007 on Channel 4. It involved 11 contestants living for three weeks on a rubbish dump next to a landfill site near Croydon in South London. The contestants who "survived" the 21 days and used only what they found on the dump were awarded £20,000 to share equally between them. The working title of the programme was Eco-Challenge. One contestant, Darren Lumsden, voluntarily left the programme on Day 3. The series was promoted with a large publicity campaign, which included advertisements on websites and a concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme achieved a peak of 2.4 million viewers, although this was marginally less than the number of people watching other channels at the same time. The programme was criticised because it was filmed on an artificial landfill and for its choice of "fame hungry" contestants. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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