They took Les Stroud's innovation to film himself alone and built a reality show contest out of/around that premise with 10 contestants per season and the results are great. It was a no-brainer really, and i'm surprised no one got around to doing this show until so many seasons later after Les basically laid out the formula minus the contest part, which is really not a bridge too far even for the least impaired and creative producers out there. It took more inspiration to come up with naked and afraid than it did this show, but this show proves that more [hokey, over-produced] is not always better. Let them try to make it, and give them cameras, in an unforgiving environment at a time of year when it only gonna get worse and worse. Let the participants do the rest. Only pay one of your contestants/content producers. How could that plan possibly not have succeeded? Great entertainment for anyone chilling in a warm home with food while appreciating the small things over which others are struggling mightily. Makes a little snack from the fridge/pantry that much more satisfying.