Colonial House (TV series)

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Colonial House
Also known as Pioneer House
Genre Reality
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 9
Production
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time 48 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel PBS (United States)
Channel 4 (UK)
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original run May 17, 2004 (2004-05-17) – May 24, 2004 (2004-05-24)
External links
Website

Colonial House (also known as Pioneer House) is an American reality series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Wall to Wall Television in the United Kingdom, following the success of The 1900 House, an exercise in vicarious "experiential history" that is characteristic of an attempt to provide an educational version of popular reality television. It aired on PBS in the United States and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2004.

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[edit] Overview

The series, intended to recreate daily life in Plymouth Colony in 1628 along the lines of the recreated Plimoth Plantation, brought home to viewers the rigors of life for colonists in the early 17th century. The show was videotaped in an isolated area near Machias, Maine and featured colonists and several members of the current Passamaquoddy tribe of Maine. Historians from Plimoth Plantation and Maine historian and archaeologist Emerson Baker of Salem State College helped to make the setting as accurate as possible. [1]

[edit] New Zealand version

A New Zealand version of the series was produced by TVNZ. The series features the Huttons from South Otago, a 21st-century family chosen to time travel back to 1852 to live in a colonial house.

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