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Behind the Front Door: sneak peek

It's not the Census calling. It's SBS. If somebody offered you the keys to snoop around your neighbours' home, what would you do?

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It’s not the Census calling. It’s SBS.

If somebody offered you the keys to snoop around your neighbours’ home, what would you do?

That’s the premise of the new observational series produced by FremantleMedia which begins tonight.

Even though neighbours live close to each other they often do not get the chance to learn each other’s stories. Behind the Front Door looks for these stories and lets neighbours take a peek into each other’s homes and lives.

Each episode features two unique stories from different neighbourhoods. After a few of the locals are persuaded to take the front door keys and take a tour around the subject’s house. The neighbours ponder whether the homes reveal anything and whether their neighbour’s lives’ are special. To really get under their skin, the volunteers are given a sensitive DVD portrait to watch in which the hero reveals all.

In a final twist, it is revealed that the story subject has been watching their neighbours explore their home from a van and is about to step inside to say hello. This meeting can be intense as people who have bared their souls come face-to-face with those who have watched their story.

6pm Saturday on SBS ONE.

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  3. Sounds like a really interesting show in the above article, but based on the clip it looks as boring as bat shit…. I’ve heard the promo department at SBS is just full of work experience students?

  4. Give it a chance – David’s right – the clip completely misses the point. it’s basically the anti-celeb show – a reminder that ordinary people have compelling stories and amazing characters. Pretty refreshing in this age of endless vacuous C listers. Why was it buried in this timeslot??

  5. I find this unbelievable – that people would willingly be involved in such excrement.
    They must have no pride.
    SBS – you do not deserve to stay on air.

  6. @Jahmila Gensen
    Well then, you’re a lucky fellow, because she’s an amazing person!
    Thank you for sharing your story and best of luck to you both – you deserve it.

  8. Coming soon: Guerilla Behind The Front Door. A random team of half drunk undergrads in animal suits performing zany home invasions, all live @ 3am. I can’t wait for dat one.

  10. @ David – you were right.
    Just watched the show and it was quite sweet (if you like that sort of thing), and it made my wife cry – which is a sure sign that she’s enjoying herself..
    In my defence, the above blurb and clip does the show no favours, they should lose the absurd ‘snooping’ premise and just tell the human interest stories. The wife will be watching it again for sure.

  12. @ David, Perhaps I’ve missed the point then.
    On the face of it, your clip shows a number of honourable people refusing to invade someone’s privacy, and an attention-seeking boy in a van waiting for the nosey neighbours to discover the huge porn collection under his bed.
    To me, anything involving “peek”ing, “really get(ting) under their skin” and secretly “watching…. from a van” just sounds voyeuristic and shameful.
    If a TV producer offered me the keys to snoop through my neighbours house, or asked me to give my keys to a neighbour and then spy on them from a van, I’d call the police. But maybe I really have missed the point.

  13. I couldn’t care less if my neighbours stopped breathing, much less what the inside of their house looks like.

    More sentimental tripe disguising itself as a factual series. What happened to the days when SBS showcased the best of international television?

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