Discovery Channel Uses Social Networking To Freak You Out
IMB_DiscoveryOutbreak4 I have never been a big fan of horror
movies. Getting scared on purpose was never something that I
quite understood. One of the scariest movies I ever saw, though,
was a film back in 1995 called Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman
which showed the response that the world would likely have to a
global pandemic if one were ever to occur. At the time I was in
college at Emory in Atlanta right next door to the CDC and the
film’s storyline about the Ebola virus escaping felt very close
to home. Tonight at 10pm the Discovery Channel is debuting a new
show that will explore this idea of a global pandemic in an
interesting new way. The show, called The Colony will take 7
volunteers and drop them into a condemned town without food or
water. They are told there has been a biological disaster and
are challenged to survive.  The show’s premise itself is
interesting, but what adds to the intrigue of the entire program
is that they are pursuing a ve