They survived a year in the wilderness of the Highlands. 
 
 Now the remaining cast of a TV show have finally left their remote home – to virtual anonymity. 
 
 Instead of being crowned reality TV celebrities and fought over by agents, the 10 who made it through the 12 months have learned that only four episodes have been shown – the last seven months ago. 
 
 The remaining 13 contestants quit earlier in the show – with many saying they couldn’t handle the relentless Scottish midges. 
 
 Eden, the ground-breaking Channel 4 project, saw 23 strangers cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves in a corner of the West Highlands. 
 
 Intended as a combination of reality TV and sociology experiment, the participants were challenged to create a new model of society. But just as in the Biblical Eden, temptation proved too strong on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. 
 
 With the group torn apart by sexual jealousy, hunger and feuds, more than half the cast quit. 
 
 Struggling to live off the land, they resorted to smuggling in junk food and booze. 
 
 Local resident Maria Macpherson said yesterday: “The last 10 have left. In the end the show was a joke. Some of the participants were even seen in the dentist at Fort William needing treatment after eating chicken feed grit. 
 
 “It has not done this area any favours – it has just not lived up to expectations.” 
 
 Last July and August, four episodes were broadcast, starting with the cast walking through a gate in the 7ft fence that enclosed 600 acres, five miles from Acharacle. 
 
 A Channel 4 spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that Eden had “drawn to a close” and would be aired later, but no date had been confirmed. 
 
 She said: “The appeal of Eden is that it was a real experiment and when filming began we had no idea what the results would be and how those taking part would react to being isolated for months in a remote part of the British Isles. 
 
 “That’s why we did it and the story of their time, including the highs and the lows, will be shown later this year.” 
 
 Locals in Ardnamurchan are still holding out hope that Eden will one day provide a boost to tourism. ||||| Published on Jul 8, 2016 
 
 Find out more at: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/eden 
 
 What if we could start again? 
 
 In a remote corner of the UK, 23 men and women try to build a new life and new society from scratch, isolated from the rest of the world ||||| Channel 4's ambitious reality show Eden has come to an end, eight months after the most recent episode was shown. 
 
 In March 2016, 23 volunteers moved to the Scottish Highlands to "start again". 
 
 Only four episodes of the show were ever broadcast in July and August last year, but the cast have only now come home. 
 
 Participants have spent the past 12 months in Scotland but less than four hours of footage was ever shown. 
 
 A spokesperson for Channel 4 could not confirm to whether participants were aware that episodes were not being broadcast but says footage will be on screens in 2017. 
 
 "When filming began we had no idea what the results would be and how those taking part would react to being isolated for months in a remote part of the British Isles," a Channel 4 representative told Newsbeat. 
 
 "That's why we did it and the story of their time, including the highs and the lows, will be shown later this year." 
 
 Eden showed a group of people trying to build a community from next to nothing in the Highlands. 
 
 They had to build their own shelter and hunt for food. 
 
 The Telegraph reports that viewing figures fell from 1.7 million to 800,000 people during those first four episodes. 
 
 The last update on Twitter from the show was in October. 
 
 During the first four episodes of the show, contestant Tara Zieleman quit the show after rowing with fellow participants. 
 
 Rumours suggest more people had also quit but Channel 4 haven't confirmed that. 
 
 A report by The Press and Journal quotes a local resident called Maria Macpherson as saying participants needed to visit a local dentist after eating "chicken grit". 
 
 But Channel 4 insists some of the reporting is "inaccurate". 
 
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– After surviving a full year in the harsh Scottish wilderness, the 10 remaining contestants of the reality series Eden emerged from their imposed isolation to discover that no one had been watching their journey. Outside of four one-hour episodes aired in the summer of 2016, the BBC reports that no other footage from the British Channel 4 series has seen the light of day—and the Guardian adds that contestants were never informed of this. The premise of the show, which began filming in March 2016 with 23 cast members, pits humans against the elements in a return to the basics. Without modern tools and technology, the group had to band together to sustain food and shelter in the West Highlands region of Scotland. Over the course of the year, 13 cast members left the project, though the exact reasons are unclear. Along with as many as four people absconding due to an epic season of Scottish midges, pesky insects that leave irritating bites, the Press and Journal of Aberdeen reports that food in the commune may have been become scarce. One local resident tells the newspaper that after leaving isolation, participants sought care from a dentist for damage sustained after eating chicken feed grit. A Channel 4 spokesperson hasn't confirmed these rumors, but says more episodes of Eden will air eventually. “The story of their time, including the highs and the lows, will be shown later this year.” No set date, however, has been announced. When the first episodes aired, ratings fell from 1.7 million viewers for the first to 800,000 for the last, notes the Telegraph.