At the start of each episode, three people, all strangers to each other, descend to three different locations deep inside a cave or abandoned mineshaft. Inside at the Hannibal, Missouri production site of Discovery Channel\’s "darkness." Call it insane or call it brilliant, one thing is certain: it meets America's insatiable appetite for extreme reality TV, then takes it to a whole new level. It's a new show, Darkness, set to premiere on the Discovery Channel on August 2. This isn't a psychology experiment or a military training exercise. And the entire time, circling silently about them in the darkness, intimately near yet incredibly far away, has been a crew of producers and camera operators documenting their every move. Eventually, they found each other deep below the earth, then painstakingly made their way to the surface. Fumbling and crawling, never sure which next step might break their necks or worse, they navigated through an alien environment marked by vermin, severe cold, tight confines, sudden drops, yawning pits, and sharp rocks. Lost within an ancient cave, the man and woman started off separate and alone, confronting mind-bending isolation that played tricks on their senses and produced ever-more-disorienting hallucinations. Darkness so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face, or even be sure whether your eyes are open or closed. Not half-light, not dimness, not relative dark: total, pitch darkness. For the past six days, they've been struggling to escape a hellish natural labyrinth carved into the hillside behind them, entirely in the dark. But the man and woman have no idea what time it is, and their eyes aren't working that well either. It's late afternoon, and the setting sun casts ochre rays through the willows and ash lightning bugs have already appeared, neon flashes in the honeysuckle. The man and woman stumble out into the muggy Missouri air, tearing up, then falling to their knees in the gravel.
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