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Airdate: Dinner At 11

The premise of 11 year olds having conversations over a dinner party sounds rather fun.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1T0OaP7lmk

I haven’t seen a preview for Dinner At 11, but the premise of 11 year olds having conversations over a dinner party sounds rather fun, this Wednesday night on ABC2.

Not sure I am really buying their behaviour though…! Producer influence involved?

Dinner parties can be minefields for adults. But what would happen if all the dinner party guests were aged around 11 years old? All is revealed when a group of 11 year olds have a dinner party and discuss everything from family to politics in this thought-provoking insight into what’s important to today’s young people.

8:40pm Wednesday March 25 ABC2.

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  2. Sounds like a good concept on paper (i.e. a fly-on-the-wall observational series on the perspectives and lives of children) but this looks far too contrived for it to be taken seriously. All of these children appear to be playing up the histrionics for the cameras in a vain attempt to appear to be the most cultured, poised and worldly of the pack. Nothing about the behaviour of these children strikes me as being even remotely natural (not helped by the ridiculous “grown up” dinner party setting, which I’m sure is just a set surrounded by cameras, serving to further detach the children from the “real world”). I’m also under the impression that most of these children have had some degree of privilege in their upbringing (either in their socioeconomic class and/or academic performance) that ultimately lead to them appearing on this programme, and is not at all an honest or realistic…

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