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Hereiam
Member
03-29-2002
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 4:36 pm
Just saw that PBS is doing another show, similar to Colonial house I believe. It should start the week of May 1. Here is a link to the website: Texas Ranch House I hope they do a good job on it - I really like these types of shows.
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 5:03 pm
I usually like these shows. Aside from all the cows, I wonder how this will differ from Frontier House (my favorite).
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 6:53 pm
It seems as if this version is more ranching than farming. I think they have to herd cattle and other ranching things.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 2:21 pm
I'm looking forward to it. I liked all the other similar shows, but was disappointed with a lot of the people in Colonial House. They kept forgetting that they weren't in the 21st century. I hope this cast is better.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 2:56 pm
Thanks for the heads up on this one!
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 4:50 pm
I enjoyed Colonial House. That was the one that showed them arriving in boats and electing a governor, right? I also enjoyed the 1940's house that was set in England.
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 5:48 pm
I watched an episode of Colonial house and they previewd Taxas Ranch House. The little they showed made it seem tough. I believe I also saw a couple hunky guys ;). I always miss CH and only catch an episode now and then. I'm almost tempted to send away for the dvd. Does PBS rerun these shows like MTV does? I'll be gone the weel of May first and that is when they said it starts.
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Freetimefinally
Member
01-26-2006
| Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 6:33 pm
I enjoy these shows but get so mad through out watching. I think they should give more classes and actual practicing time before going out and starting. The family especially girls should be taught and practice cooking, sewing, gardening and milking cows to have their bodies use to the intensity of it some. If they were really in this period it many of these tasks would be much more natural as they would of been preforming them since a very early age along side their mother. They would take much less effort and time. The work hands should go in with callases already on their hands. Not fresh skin that just got a manicure. There is no reason for early blisters as these men since childhood should of been preforming many of these tasks. They should also be able to ride, put the tackle on a horse and rope a cow. I am wondering how much they will actually prepare this group ahead of time.
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 7:43 pm
I think the original point of these shows was to find out if the people of today would be able to survive living like the people of yesterday. In order to really find that out the people need to be totally green. They give them a few days of basic training for mercy's sake but too much preparation would defeat the purpose. What makes it fun is watching them deal with these conditions for the first time and seeing them realize how much harder it really was for people back then.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 4:13 pm
In a promo I just saw for the show, plate of food was on a table with thick cloud of insects around it. UGH! I enjoyed Frontier House and 1890s (or whatever year) House, but Colonial House didn't grab me. Expect I'll be watching this one.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-30-2004
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 5:29 pm
Thanks for the heads up too! I loved Frontier House and 1940's House - and have rewatched my taped copies a couple of times. Watched Colonial House once but wasn't into it enough to rewatch. Of course, THAT was a horror with all the churchgoing and requirements compelling the endless sermon listening. That's why the preacher guy was so eager for his 'slot' I think, like a control freak having a forced and captive audience. (No wonder they couldn't get any work done and were starving! All the calluses were probably on their backsides from sitting, instead of their hands.) They most likely would have burned ME at the stake if I had participated, instead of simply tying me to a stake! Still, I was a little surprised that the modern day people wanting to participate didn't research somewhat beforehand to see if they could handle the role. The atheist woman should have had a clue, before thrusting herself into the situation and then sniping all the way through. It was the times of the Puritans, after all! Frontier House was the ABSOLUTE BEST!!!! Remember how the rich folks cheated at every opportunity? They were unhappy with their reportcard at the end (after having been caught hawking her pastries to the modern townpeople and then salvaging the metal boxspring from the modern day town dump). Gosh that was pure comedy! I'm eagerly looking forward to this Texas House!
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Saturday, April 29, 2006 - 9:16 pm
I think I liked Frontier House better than Colonial House just because the focus was on three families so it was easier to get to know them all, and it was interesting to see how much the change in lifestyle affected the children and how quickly they went back to being all sedentary when they returned to normal times. Colonial House had a darker, more negative tone, with all the complaints from the participants and from the Native Americans who seemed angry and offended that they'd even want to recreate those times. 1940's House was fascinating for historic reasons, seeing how the war affected people in England at the time. It's always most enjoyable when the participants fully immerse themselves in the times rather than resisting and trying to find ways around things. It was so silly when the rich dad in Frontier House argued that using that boxspring is what the pioneers would've done, missing the point that the pioneers wouldn't have had that boxspring in the first place. Still, I give them all the credit in the world for even participating because that had to be one of the roughest of these series.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-30-2004
| Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 1:15 am
Curlyq said: "1940's House was fascinating for historic reasons, seeing how the war affected people in England at the time." Yes, ITA. What I like is that PBS is not unnecessarily cruel. They're working with historical information and it was enlightening for me to discover just HOW hard their times were. My gosh, the ceaseless and constant, teethrattling bomber alert sirens going off & off & off & off; at any/every time of the day. Minutes apart so often and never ending. I would have lost my mind! That part was a real eye opener for me, personally, since I thought it was mostly happening at night. BUT PBS can cut some little bit of slack to divert a bit when needed; while still getting their point across in a gentle/educational manner. For instance, the little boy who had been raising his rabbit "for the war effort". PBS was able to use his rabbit to demonstrate how the push for effectively using household refuse while raising a new type of "livestock". Still, instead of forcing slaughtering of little Boy's ol' Bugs, they modified the routine. Allowed Mom&Kid&bunny to go back to the (fakey looking) shopkeeper to barter food in exchange for the bunny, while simultaneously giving us a look as to what might be available with ration coupons in the shop.. Hauling the bunny might not have been truly the way it worked at that time, but we GOT the idea. And none of us viewers or the little boy were traumatized in the process. Re: Frontier House: Don't get me wrong about the rich Dad and family. I give them full credit for going through the adventure. No WAY could I have survived! But the comedy was in how they attempted to "shyster" the system! UNDER the handsewn quilts, AFTER they were gone....the advisors suddenly discovered the little metal box springs - no covers, just the metal guts of the box spring. PBS edited the whole thing with such a subtle, not un-kindly humor. That's what made the funny stuff SO incredibly funny! Frontier House was just one of the BEST ever! But I sure enjoyed 1940's House, hard to chose.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 3:12 am
Terrrible scheduling on both of our PBS stations.. without HD, the only showings are two hours smack in the middle of primetime evening tv, four days in a row, during sweeps when all the shows I watch are broadcasting crucial episodes. The HD version of KCET has a show at 5 and 6 pm which would be possible..
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 3:50 am
Same programming problems here too. On top of that, my downstairs DVR is doing weird things and I'm gonna have to switch it out soon. If I do it any time this week, then I lose everything I've saved on it. I think what I'm gonna do here is dig out my old vcr, and hook it up to the kitchen tv (just analog cable on that one, but it has PBS), and record the series there. Then I won't have to worry about conflicts, losing recorded programs, or anything!
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Monday, May 01, 2006 - 9:34 am
Go TiVO you guys....PBS always re-runs shows in the middle of the night and I just set it up to TiVO at 2 a.m. or 4 a.m., or whatever the case may be. This allows me to catch all my 'addictions' at primetime.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, May 01, 2006 - 1:28 pm
PBS in Chicago is running the two hour program tonight at 8:00 and same thing again immediately after at 10:00.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, May 01, 2006 - 1:38 pm
LOL. Well, I have Comcast DVR, which works just like Tivo. Even if I had Tivo, it still is airing only from 8-10 in my area. Even if I ran out and changed providers, it wouldn't help. I checked the PBS listings for Comcast, DirectTV and Dish Network, and all of them are only showing it in Primetime here. The only multiple airing (at least for the next two weeks worth) is through something called "digital broadcast receiver," whatever the heck that is! 
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, May 01, 2006 - 2:00 pm
wow this looks good! I love these types of shows, too.
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Monday, May 01, 2006 - 4:00 pm
This whole 8 hour series will be shown this week--2 hours each on Monday through Thursday.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, May 01, 2006 - 6:33 pm
I'm recording all of it. 
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Monday, May 01, 2006 - 7:25 pm
My PBS is running the first one 8-10 CT and tomorrow night they are repeating tonight's show @ 10:00 pm after the Tues. 8-10 showing. If I wanted to wait a day, I could see them at 10:00 pm Tues through Friday, instead of 8:00 pm, Mon through Thursday. Want to see how I like it though, so I'm Tivo'ing it tonight. It looks like it will be great, just like the rest of them.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 9:26 pm
I missed the second epi. Why was the ranch manager fired?
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 9:38 pm
He and Nacho, the cook, got in a fight. Mr. Cooke saw the manager push Nacho -- so he fired him. After the fact, to the camera, Nacho said it was both of them. And later, to the camera, one of the ranch hands said they were both acting immaturely. I don't know what to think of Mr. & Mrs. Cooke. I don't think I'd want to work on their ranch / under them. Something about both of them doesn't hit me right.
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, May 02, 2006 - 9:42 pm
I have to re-watch the second episode because I wasn't paying enough attention, but I think the manager was fired for fighting with Nacho. One of the others felt Nacho had provoked him to get him fired. Of course, now Nacho has been fired as well. This family isn't holding onto their help, are they? I can't remember when one of these PBS shows went so badly as far as losing people. I'm not impressed with Mr. Cooke, but he did have a point about how his wife wouldn't normally be second-guessing all his decisions at his real job back home. They needed to establish clearer boundaries about what's work and what's home. I'm almost hoping the cowboys do walk off just to scare the pants off those people, including the girl-of-all-work who wants to tell her boss what job she should have. Even in the 21st century, you don't get away with that. It's really something how in these situations people have such an easy time adjusting to the idea of being superior, and such a hard time getting used to being treated as an underling. I don't get why Mr. Cooke hadn't been going out with them every time, especially after he fired the manager and left them one man short.
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