The show premieres at 10 PM Tuesday, August 7, after the Season 5 premiere of Bachelor in Paradise. Watch the first-look trailer above. In what feels something like Survivor-meets-an unscripted Lost, Castaways follows 12 diverse individuals — "strangers torn from their ordinary lives,"" the trailer stresses — as they are dropped alone throughout various islets in Indonesia and challenged to survive among washed-up luggage, scattered resources and abandoned structures.
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Here is the latest spin on the reality-competition genre. ABC has set a premiere date for Castaways, which it describes as “testing the human need for companionship under extreme circumstances as each individual learns there are other castaways out there but are unaware of how many, their locations or when they will be rescued.
The show premieres at 10 PM Tuesday, August 7, after the Season 5 premiere of Bachelor in Paradise. Watch the first-look trailer above. In what feels something like Survivor-meets-an unscripted Lost, Castaways follows 12 diverse individuals — "strangers torn from their ordinary lives,"" the trailer stresses — as they are dropped alone throughout various islets in Indonesia and challenged to survive among washed-up luggage, scattered resources and abandoned structures.