What kind of other house would you like for PBS to do?
I would like:
1.) Tudor England House
2.) 16th Century Japan House under the samurai structure
3.) antebellum plantation house-hot button house that I am sure will never happen
4.) 1950s house
5.) 1940s house-American side
6.) major movie star in classic Hollywood of the 1930s or 1940s House-limited appeal and topic range-doubt it could ever be considered
7.) Victorian England House
#2.. and they all have to perform seppuku at the end of the last episode..you know.. for authenticity =P
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I like most of those ideas, but while watching Colonial House, I got to thinking that if they wanted to, they could always do Colonial House again but set it in the Virginia or North Carolina colonies. It would give a very different spin than the New England one. Different crops, different climate, hopefully different show.
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if they were to do a 1850 House set in the carolinas, would they be allowed to have black people as slaves? it would be interesting to see if any black people would sign up for the role.
also, i think i nice twist could be "false death's". people died a lot more often, whether it disease of murder, etc. the show could say "you have consumption, you die", or one cast member could "kill off" another, liek say a rebellion or takeover of authority.
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Premise #3 won't happen. Colonial house touched very briefly on the subject of slavery when they said that because there was so much work to be done to get the colonies established and not enough manpower or resources to get it done, slavery was the solution to the problem...free or cheap labour.
It was thoughts of this that disturbed Danny Tisdale on the show, that he would never have been in the colonies in the period represented in Colonial House but that likely he would have been brought over as a slave within the next few decades. He left the project as a result. I suppose he just didn't consider the gravity of that before going in.
A project representing the antebellum south would also have to include a lot of occurrences in history that this country is not yet willing to face head on such as lynching and mutilation as punishment for offenses, owners producing additional slaves by having children, more often forcibly, with their female slaves and countless other atrocities. It wouldn't just be a negative experience for people of African descent either. I think the roles of slave owners would just be too disturbing for those playing those roles as well.
To avoid these issues to produce a "Hand On History" program as PBS calls them would do an injustice to history and I don't think that's something PBS is willing to do...FOX network would probably do it though.
I don't think the project failed entirely. It's asking a lot to send people into a situation that existed in history and expect them to fully shed their 21st century persona entirely- to take away basic freedoms that were grante dto us as a people, as women, as descendants of immigrants and slaves and have enjoyed for centuries. I did however take issue with the Voorhees family who must have known going in that there would be serious problems if they didn't play ball on the religious issues. They were the Clunes (Frontier House) of this project.
Yeah, a colonial house set in NC would be very interesting. The subject of slavery could be largely avoided as NC didn't have many slaves until the cotton gin. Not just the crops and climate, but the entire attitude and philosophy of the colonists would be differant.
shareI'd like to see "Antebellum Plantation House" and I think it might be feasible if they stayed historically accurate with the exception of one major detail: They reverse the race roles. White people portray the slave roles, and black people play the ones in charge. It would probably still be controversial, although not prohibitively so, and I bet the concept would get enough media attention to make it the most watched House series so far. I think it would have the potential to be very educational for everyone, viewers and participants. In its own way it would give many people even more of an enlightening perspective on that era than if the race roles stayed historically the same.
I think Samurai-era Japan House would be interesting too, if it was actually filmed in Japan with Japanese people speaking Japanese.
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