Returning: Housemates

ABC doco series Housemates, which originally screened on iview, is back for a second season on ABC2 tomorrow night.

The series looks a 4 shared housing environments each with their own rules and characters.

Housemates uncovers the unique, unusual, and sometimes crazy ways Australians have made share housing work. In many streets across Australia, there will be some form of share house going on, and nearly everyone has had to share a house, flat or even bedroom at some point. Sharing a fridge or a bathroom with strangers is never easy. In series 2 of Housemates, we meet four very different share houses and the housemates that are trying to make it work.

There’s a ‘discipleship’ share house where everyone shares a room and a troubled background – but when two housemates leave, it is Jesus who chooses a replacement.

An all-female share house where two vegans and one meat-eater try to get along and go completely waste free – but when a new housemate moves in, can she fit in?

A sexually free and open share house where three male strippers, one ex-girlfriend, and one couple must manage all their relationships and keep the ‘family’ together.

And a group of anarchists who are launching their own community as they try to live outside of the capitalist system, but will it be a success? Each share house has a unique way of living, but could you live in these houses?

Wednesday, 4 October, 9.20pm on ABC2.