Welcome to the 2nd Season of The Week the Women Went, a unique - and as it turns out – wildly popular TV series on CBC Television.
The Week the Women Went was the #1 show in Canada last
winter.
In the first season, our team traveled to Hardisty, Alberta and conducted a ‘social experiment’ on camera, and on TV. The premise was simple: Take one small town, take all of the women out of it, and watch what happens. As it turned out, lots happened.
Men learned to walk a mile (or two) in women’s shoes, kids had to adapt to a new version of a ‘balanced diet’, the town got a facelift, and lots of laundry piled up. But that’s not all. Relationships were tested, roles were challenged, and bonds were formed. It was what all we expected – and more... so we’re doing it again. This time we’re going East
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia - here we come.
Tatamagouche is a village of about 700 people on Nova Scotia’s North Shore, about 2 hours north of Halifax and it steeped in Maritime history and culture - but it’s never experienced anything like this.
During the second week of September Tatamagouche will be radically transformed, when many of the women leave for a week on a well-deserved, all-inclusive, all-expenses-paid vacation to an undisclosed location - while the men stay at home and try to keep the home fires burning (while trying not to burn dinner!). Oh yes, there are some rules to this ‘game’ – firstly, there’s no preparation allowed by the women to help the poor men through the week. They’ll figure it out. Secondly, they are only gone for a week, but just imagine them gone forever. How would a town run, households operate, kids survive, jobs be maintained and sanity preserved if men had to do it all?
Well, we’re going to find out.
The Week the Women Went is a production of Vancouver based Paperny Films and will air on CBC Television in 8 X 1-hour episodes across Canada in prime-time early in 2009.
