survived it, could you survive the aftermath?  Discovery Channel puts

these questions to the test in THE COLONY, returning Tuesdays at 10PM ET/PT beginning July 27 for an all-new season filled with high stakes, incredible emotion and extraordinary challenges.  THE COLONY

is not a competition, but a controlled experiment that places ordinary

people from all walks of life in a simulated post-catastrophic

environment and pushes them to their limits, in an ultimate test of

new group of volunteers with differing backgrounds, skills and

personalities, to bear witness to how these colonists will survive and

rebuild in a world without electricity, running water, government or

outside communication.  Over the course of 10 episodes, the colonists –

who include a construction foreman, teacher, carpenter and auto

mechanic – must work to utilize and strengthen their exploration,

technology and survival skills in ways they’ve never had to before.  THE COLONY

features on-going commentary and input from experts in homeland

security, engineering, psychology and the medical community, with

expertise and insight into what the future could look like after a

simulated environment had been left decimated by Hurricane Katrina, a

naturally occurring disaster zone that was slated to be bulldozed and

turned into a public park.  Empty buildings, weedy streets and the

backwoods are all the colonists have to work with as they scavenge

essentials for survival from their surroundings while fending off

threats such as wild animals and malicious outsiders.  Throughout this

season, the colonists face daunting physical and emotional challenges

as they attempt to survive in a world void of all the niceties they’ve

ever known, including environmental dangers such as disastrous weather

hour isolation period to psychologically shift their perspective from

our modern world to the end of the world.  Shortly after the

integration into the colony, the threat of survival becomes imminent as

hostile outsiders push them into a physical confrontation.  How do the

colonists respond and will their newfound skills be enough to protect

Channel by Original Productions, a FremantleMedia Company.  For

Original Productions, executive producers are Thom Beers and Philip D.

Segal; co-executive producers are Jeff Conroy and Jarrod Harlow.  For