Applications to be on the gruelling reality TV hit doubled – but the 10 contestants face all new threats including avalanches and earthquakes
The cast of season two of Alone Australia: Rick, Mike, Leanne, Chace, Suzan, Tamika, Krzysztof, Andreas, Jack and Jason. The show premieres on Wednesday.The cast of season two of Alone Australia: Rick, Mike, Leanne, Chace, Suzan, Tamika, Krzysztof, Andreas, Jack and Jason. The show premieres on Wednesday.
“I’d like to say that Tasmania is ruggedly beautiful and New Zealand is classically beautiful,” says Riima Daher, the show’s executive producer. As the pioneering executive for the Alone format for Australia, it’s Daher’s job to create the perfect conditions for the show to thrive.“In New Zealand everything is bigger, taller, deeper, wider,” she says. “So the landscape itself is upscaled, and some of the dangers are upscaled with that as well. It’s colder, the weather events can be more drastic.
There is one big change this season: participants are permitted to hunt with bow and arrow. With wild pig, possum, tahr and red deer on the South Island, this could change the stakes dramatically. “It’s a different landscape and a different survival culture in Australia. I think we are influenced by the multicultural background that we bring to the series. Australia’s such a young country in some ways, and such an old country in a more important way. So all of the First Nations learnings and that custodial approach to the land that some contestants exhibit really makes things different.”
“We also need land where they can hunt and fish, and where we know there are enough resources for them to survive. And we want it to look pretty as well.”As spectacular as the settings are, it’s the contestants who make Alone so good. Watching them survive the wilderness and their own devastating loneliness is compelling television.
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