The BBC Has Commissioned A Zombie Reality TV Series

All right, nerds - it's time to put your money where your mouth is. While you've spent the past five or so years boasting about how you'd totally be ubermensch Daryl in The Walking Dead should the world's corpses ever decide they miss shuffling around on the surface, the rest of us have been scoffing to ourselves, knowing full well you'd be the first survivor thrown under the proverbial bus the second the group needs a quick escape.

If you want to prove us wrong, you could always sign up for I Survived A Zombie Apocalypse.

Commissioned by UK station BBC Three (although, let's face it, this sort of thing - if it works - would have immediate appeal across the Western world), the reality TV show pits eight contestants, trapped in a shopping mall Dawn Of The Dead-style, against a 'zombie attack' that they must outwit, outlast and outplay to avoid a "grisly" exit from the show. It's a pity the name Survivor is already taken.

BBC Three controller Zai Bennett said in a statement: "I Survived A Zombie Apocalypse is a reality event on a huge scale for BBC Three. It promises to be a deadly twist on the genre."

The show will be made by Tiger Aspect, the company responsible for Bad Education and Aussie pay-TV channel BBC First's major drawcard Peaky Blinders, but details on when the show will air - or when it might be up for international format adaptation - have not yet been announced.

"It's nice to finally have a game show where, if you get a challenge wrong, you get your arms ripped off and your brains eaten out," the show's executive producer, Andrew Brereton, said.

While we're on the subject, if you're a fan of zombie apocalypses, you should be playing Telltale Games' episodic Walking Dead series, currently in its second season. The game is a story-driven adventure-style tale of choice and consequence set in The Walking Dead's comic-book universe, and its first season earned enough acclaim to crush an undead horde. Besides, while you're waiting for your chance to prove yourself in the real fake zombie apocalypse, you might as well brush up on your survival skills.