The big thing was that the producers decided it was better not to let any of the participants know that the show had been cancelled. They missed nearly a year of real world events like the actual start of the UK’s split from the EU (European Union) known as Brexit. They basically missed all of 2016.
Take a look inside to uncover what happened. The contestants camped in the woods for a year thinking everything they did was being watched by millions when nothing they did had been aired for months.