<P> In promoting the first series, the show was pitched as a challenge for modern men to see if they can survive when marooned on a Pacific island armed only with minimal tools and their own initiative . According to Bear Grylls, masculinity is in crisis, and he is interested to see if men can survive stripped of the luxuries of 21st century living, and the show is therefore also a social experiment to see if man can recapture his primeval instincts . </P> <P> In the second series, following complaints about the absence of women in the first series, two groups, 14 men and 14 women, were left on two separate islands . In the third series, two groups of eight men and eight women were left at opposite ends of the same island, with neither group knowing of the other's presence . </P> <P> For the first series, the participants had to survive for one month . For the second series, this was extended to six weeks . </P> <P> On 23 May 2014, it was announced that The Island had been recommissioned for a second series to air in 2015 . In the second series, the men and women were featured on separate episodes on consecutive nights each week . </P>

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