To avoid spoilers and repeats skip to; 1:50 Unfortunately the project is already coming to an end. Why is it that the shows that aren’t very good get 8 episodes while the ones that are great only get 4?! Mind you, I do understand that a month of this is quite a challenge already, not…
To avoid spoilers and repeats skip to; 1:50 Third episode, third week. We start with children playing outside, even though in real 1900 they’d probably wouldn’t have as much time to play as they do in this series, it must have been paradise to grow up there. Apart from the hunger, fear, punishments and hard…
To avoid spoilers and repeats skip to; 1:50 The first episode showed the first week of this adventure, so now we start where that episode left off. The families are running low on food. As someone who has worked in film and TV I sadly know that often this is where it can go wrong…
I must confess I’m very excited about this one while I really shouldn’t be. The name reminds me of ‘The 1900 house’, still one of the best in its genre, but it also takes place in Wales which makes me think of the also excellent Coal House series. But I don’t think this new show…
To avoid spoilers and repeats, skip to 1:45 This week; the 1990s. Can history that is so recent be interesting to watch being experienced by kids? We’ll see. For starters the music will be terrible this episode. I barely remember the 1990s, it wasn’t a very memorable decade but somehow the children seem to think…
To avoid spoilers and repeats, skip to 1:45 This week; the 1980s. My school years. I was in my teens during the 1980s, let’s see how familiar this episode feels. Mind you, I went to a Montessori school, so not quite as traditional as this regular British school. We didn’t have as many rules… unfortunately.…
To avoid spoilers and repeats, skip to 1:45 This week; the 1970s. AKA the ugliest era ever. We’re still in the horrifically modern school building, they’re following the comprehensive system now. How did some of the boys suddenly get long hair? Or how did they manage to hide his long hair in previous episodes? Or…
To avoid spoilers and repeats, skip to 1:45 This week; the 1960s. Unlike some eras apparently this decade is deemed more interesting so it gets its own episode. Our presenter calls the 1960s a swinging decade, which of course the 1920s and 1940s also were, but somehow those were announced quite differently. It is interesting…
Back in time for school, episode 3 To avoid spoilers and repeats, skip to 1:45. This episode will be about the 1940s and 1950s. Two decades squeezed into one episode. Personally I think you could/should make an entire series just about one era if you want participants to get the actual historical experience, or at…
To avoid spoilers and repeats, skip to 1:40. This episode will be about the era between the wars. New outfits and hairstyles for the pupils. The children look ok, I’m in favour of uniforms for schools (wish we had them when I was in school) and even though the kids don’t seem to like them,…
Another in the ‘Back in time for…’ series, which is very popular but unfortunately not always well made. These shows often concentrate on only a part of life in the past and ignore the rest so participants don’t really spend time ‘living’ like our predecessors. For example, they spend time cooking and eating like they…
One of the contestants in ‘Secret Agent Selection WW2’, Debbey Clitheroe, has been so kind to write a bit about what the experience was like for her and answer some of my questions. It is wonderful to have this insight into one of these shows and hear about some of the exiting future plans our…
The last episode of ‘Secret Agent Selection WW2’. I’m rather looking forward to this, the show has been rather good so far and I can’t wait to see how our agents will perform in the field. Skip to 2:15 if you don’t need reminding of what happened in the previous episode and don’t want any…
Skip to 2:12 if you don’t want to see the spoilers. This episode the students will be going to the finishing school, the last phase before being send out on operation. Another amazingly gorgeous location. That rack and the coathangers in one of their rooms doesn’t look very 1940s but apart from that the location…
Skip to 2:10 if you don’t want this episode ruined by seeing what comes ahead. Warning; there will be spoilers in my review. More delicious views of Scotland. I loved survival training, it was a brilliant experience. I bet that if it had included enemy soldiers and the chance of me being caught it would…
Historical Reality Television 