How to Survive the End of the World on National Geographic TV

[Paul]

Part science fiction, part serious speculation, this new series debuts on National Geographic on December 10 in the US (not sure about the UK etc dates), with a zombie aka rabies gone wild episode.

I'm in at about 1min 19secs in this trailer http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2013...

And I'll be in most or all of the following episodes.

[[deleted user]]

I looked at the write up on Natgeo's website and I'm thinking this show either will be good fun or awful - but I set the DVR to record anyways.

[Paul]

From what I can tell - but I haven't seen any complete episode - it should be fun. But let me know what you think.

[Paul]

Coming tomorrow (Jan 2) at 9pm and 11pm, episode #3 in this series: Frozen Earth (screenshot in OP is from Frozen Earth)

Details on the first two episodes:

http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2013...

http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2013...

[[deleted user]]

I watched the first two and they were both pretty far-fetched scenarios...

[Paul]

You thought the premises - new plague, black hole through the planet - were far-fetched, or the predicted reactions and scenarios?

[[deleted user]]

I thought the premises were far-fetched - Rabies turning into a zombie-plague and then the micro black hole flying through the planet setting off all planetary volcanoes. I mean they make for decent fictional plot devices but not necessarily realistic apocalypse scenarios.

Once you accept the trigger for the apocalypse, the escalations creating a hell on earth to be survived are then more acceptable scenarios - and then possible scenarios to survive them are also acceptable. But, I didn't buy into the first steps so the rest built on something overly fantastic for my tastes.

I was expecting something a little more realistic. At least they don't have a breathless, excitable narrator like some disaster 'documentaries' do ...

[Paul]

I agree. The scenarios are in the tradition of last year's Evacuate Earth, by the same producers, in which a massive asteroid is on its way to hit Earth, and people are trying to get off the planet. The premises are science fictional, and the follow-throughs - the responses - are based on more scientific projections.

[Kevin]

I DVR'd a show called "Apocalypse Man" that was sort of along the same lines - showing how to survive if society collapsed. Unfortunately, it only seemed to be a one-off, a single episode, but I still got some good info out of it.

[Paul]

Yeah, I always get some useful information out of those shows. Next up on the series is "Monster Storm," due to air in the US on NatGeo on the evening of Feb 19, 10pm Eastern.