Airdate: Electric Dreams
TEN will air the 3 part UK series in which a family home is stripped back to life in the 1970s.
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Next month TEN will air the three part series Electric Dreams, a UK series which follows one family as their home is “renovated” back to a typical house in 1970 and then fast-forwarded over six weeks through the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The series has added Australian narration by Amanda Keller, who previously fronted Beyond 2000.
The show has been described as a mashup of Nova, Colonial House and Back to the Future, with some Mythbusters geekery thrown in.
As one review noted, “…Britain’s labor disputes linger in the background. When the power goes out one evening, the family is told that ‘as a result of the miners’ industrial action, the power outage will last until morning.’ They break out candles and board games.
“The real treat, however, is watching the parents enjoy this flashback to their youth while having to cope with the hassles it creates. Dad gets misty when he finds a record player with Simon & Garfunkel on.”
It premieres at 6:30pm Sunday November 1st.
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11 Responses
Hmm, they’ve really chopped it around. Guess to fit it in an hour…
Loved this when I saw it in the UK
I’m a big Keller fan.. but do we really need aussie narration? This is such an english doco.. and a great one too!
I want merlin, it better be on as soon as ratings start up next year!
Maybe Ten will run it until 7:45 or so to fit in the ads?
Anyone know if this will come to BBC World or BBC Knowledge soon to see the original?
it is a good show , i watched it the last 3 weeks but TEN will edit it to hell to fit into an hour and it will be rubbish if revoiced.
Very quick off the mark by Ten there – this aired less than a week ago on the BBC.
However, the BBC version is preferable for two obvious reasons: firstly, the original narration. It’s a British doco series, and doesn’t need Amanda Keller to re-voice it.
Secondly and more importantly, each episode runs 59 minutes without ads. To fit this into a one-hour slot, Ten will have to chop 15 minutes or so out of each episode.
great doco..good pick ten.
Sounds like a very interesting show and I’ll give it a go. How heavenly would it be to live in a house with everything from the mid 70’s. Though I might have to sneak in a computer and a DVD player 🙂
6:30pm Sunday. Interesting choice of timeslot. Sounds like an interesting show with nothing I like on the other channels at the same time so I might have a peek.
Hope this one will work for TEN, but it wont. Sounds boring..