Netflix 'cancel controversial survival reality show after just one season'

Netflix have reportedly cancelled a controversial survival reality show after just one season in an unexpected move.

The streaming giant will not renew the survival-based series as it wasn’t a hit with its intended younger audience, Deadline reports.

Snowflake Mountain took a group of spoilt young people and dropped them in the wilderness of the Lake District with no home comforts. 

Guided by survivalists Matt Tate and Joel Graves, the group had a chance to win a $50,000 prize. 

Netflix has canceled the show before a second season could start, the website claimed. 

Decision: The streaming giant will not renew the survival-based reality show as it wasn’t a hit with its intended younger audience, Deadline reports

Season one premiered last year and was made by Naked, the Fremantle-owned production company. 

Fremantle also owns Too Hot to Handle producers Talkback and Thames. 

The streaming platform has been contacted by MailOnline for comment. 

On the show ‘clueless kidadults,’ who refuse to do chores or hold down jobs, were forced to go without running water and Wi-Fi at the back-to-basics camp while competing for the cash prize.

According to Netflix’s own description of the show at the time, the group would be met with a ‘rude awakening’ during the show, which aimed to help them realize just how ‘pampered their lives have been so far’.

The cast included a self-confessed ‘Disney Princess,’ a wannabe influencer, and an outspoken vegan who loved to look at herself in the mirror. 

There were plenty of tears as the pampered crew struggled to become one with nature and stand on their own two feet.

Last June one contestant from the controversial reality show said everyone should go through the experience – despite it being so gruelling.

Idea: Snowflake Mountain took a group of spoilt young people and dropped them in the wilderness of the Lake District with no home comforts

Experts: Guided by survivalists Matt Tate and Joel Graves, the group had a chance to win a $50,000 prize

Not coming back: Netflix has canceled the show before a second season could start, the website claimed

Rae Hume, 25, from Kent, and Liam Brown, 21, from Warwickshire, appeared on This Morning to discuss their time on the Netflix programme.

They discussed how they applied for the show thinking it would be similar to Geordie Shore, and perhaps set in a villa, but their families knew the pampered contestants would be facing a tougher challenge. 

However, instead they were dumped in the wilds of the Lake District, and had most of their luggage blown up, left with just a small bag of essentials, and given a series of tough tasks.

But despite this, Rae, who has admitted she was a ‘snowflake’ who lived at home with her mother Jane, who did all her cooking and washing and lent her money to put petrol in her car, said she ‘loved every second’.

The 25-year-old, who has reportedly tried numerous jobs, but has yet to find her passion, said the show to This Morning hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary that the show offered the opportunity for some soul searching.

She added: ‘It was just one of those things I wish everyone could get the opportunity to go on, because we actually did such honest searching.

‘We thought we were going to a party Island, going to a villa, and we turned up, and we had to face reality instead of escaping it.’

Chipping in about his experience on the show, fellow contestant Liam Brown, 21 , the only other Brit on the show, added: ‘So I think we applied for what we thought would be a bit more like Geordie Shore-style party.’

He was given a form to fill out – which he admitted he had never done before – to share his guardian’s details. But unbeknownst to him, his close family already knew what he was in for.  

In fact, all of the show’s ten 20-somethings contestants were involved because their own parents consider them ‘snowflakes’ — work-shy, over-sensitive, lacking in discipline, overly-dependent on their parents, unable to find the sink to wash a plate, never mind look after themselves.

And this was something Liam later discovered, laughingly telling the programme:  ‘[The show makers] had actually like organised it with [his guardian] behind the scenes, and it turns out that she agreed to sign me up to this horrific experience.’

He added: ‘When we first got there, we were all traumatised. You know, you look at yourself [thinking] ‘why am I here?’.

‘And then you have a breakdown. It’s like a midlife crisis. And you realise why you’re there and then you just get on with it.’ 

During the segment, the hosts also spoke to Matt Tate, a military survival expert who guided the participants through their challenges.

He told Alison and Dermot that the programme was an ‘interesting’ experience, and while it had been tough to initially get the participants motivated, it ended well.

Speaking about Rae and Liam, he said: ‘From the beginning they were really strong characters.’

He added that Rae is very positive and Liam has a great sense of humour.    

‘So they brought a lot of energy to the camp that was good,’ Matt said.

Speaking about what made the pair ‘snowflakes’ before the experience, he said: ‘Their outlook on life…their lack of willingness to go out and do things on their own.’

Liam added that the show had helped him to stand on his own two feet, saying: ‘I very heavily rely on like my parents or my Nana…And now [on the show] you’ve got no WiFi, no phones.

‘You’ve only got yourself to like fall back on. You’ve got no one you don’t know the people that you’re with. 

‘So when something goes wrong, you’ve only got yourself and I think that was the most important lesson that had to learn when something went wrong.’

The unpleasant surprises started very soon after the contestants arrived in the Lake District, when they were told to take a few essentials out of their suitcases.

Their suitcases were then loaded onto a trailer and unceremoniously blown to pieces. 

Despite the tears and objections, the ten 20-somethings would have to spend the next three weeks wearing only the clothes they had in their ‘essentials’ bags, and they would be camping in the wilderness, in the Lake District, for the duration, deprived of their mobile phones.

They were also deprived of running water, shops and wifi.

Due to its tough nature, the highly controversial show has been accused of trolling an entire generation.

However, it has simultaneously been praised for finally standing up to snowflake nonsense. 

The show featured two military survival experts, Matt Tate, as well as Joel Graves, who taught the contestants basic life skills. 

It soon became clear how ill-equipped the 20-somethings were to look after themselves. 

‘They honestly had questions about how to clean the dishes,’ says Joel, who is ex-U.S. Navy and saw action in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Speaking about the programme before her appearance on This Morning, Rae has admitted to this.

She said: ‘I hold my hand up to it. I didn’t do adult life very well. I wanted to be Peter Pan. And I’m not very good at applying myself, so I’ve flitted from job to job. 

‘I’ve never saved any money, despite my parents trying to make me. And I didn’t think I would ever move out of my mum and dad’s house. They still did everything for me — out of love, obviously. 

‘I’m dyslexic, and a bit all over the place organisation wise, so my mum would micromanage me. When I wanted to lose weight, I went to Slimming World and my mum would come, too, to write the recipes down for me.

Tough: On the show ‘clueless kidadults,’ who refuse to do chores or hold down jobs, were forced to go without running water and Wi-Fi at the back-to-basics camp while competing for the cash prize

Line up: The cast included a self-confessed ‘Disney Princess,’ a wannabe influencer, and an outspoken vegan who loved to look at herself in the mirror

Challenge: There were plenty of tears as the pampered crew struggled to become one with nature and stand on their own two feet

‘I’d never really been away from them for longer than a week before. The biggest shock was that they took our phones away. We didn’t have running water either, but it was the no phones that was the shock.’

Opening up about how she felt when she realised what the show was really about, she said: ‘I was speechless when I found out. I managed to laugh, but some of the others were in floods of tears. 

‘I was expecting a villa with a swimming pool and maybe a hot tub. Instead I got handed an axe and they wanted me to chop down a tree.’

Snowflake Mountain season one is available to watch on Netflix now.