You may not remember but, in March last year, 23 volunteers were sent by Channel 4 to a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands. Cut off from the outside world for a year – no internet; no telephones; but enough food and materials to survive – these people would attempt to create a community from scratch.

The whole thing would be recorded by four crew members embedded in the group, while personal cameras and a fixed rig would ensure the viewer didn't miss a beat as this audacious experiment unfolded. Eden, as the show was called, asked: "What if we could start again?"

Well, the year is up, those who made it to the end of the experiment are leaving the camp, and the truth is we are really no closer to knowing the answer to that question.

Viewers were shown four hour-long episodes in July and August – covering the arrival of the volunteers and building of the camp – but since then nothing has been broadcast, despite expectations that Eden would return to our screens intermittently throughout the year.

The official Eden social media channels remained quiet, too. On October 6, a tweet was sent showing one of the volunteers holding a goat but that is the last time the account was active. Similarly, it is months since a photograph was posted on the Eden Instagram account.