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The Week the Women Went (2008)

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Genre
documentary television program
Country
Canada
Length
2 seasons, 9 episodes
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A TV series where all women leave a small Canadian town for a week, leaving men and children to run things on their own. It shows what happens as the community adjusts to the sudden change.

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What happens

The Week The Women Went is a television show produced by Paperny Films, and based on a BBC Three program of the same title. The show was part documentary, part reality television, that explores what happens when all the women in an ordinary Canadian town disappear for a week and leave the men and children to cope on their own. The first season of the show was taped in Hardisty, Alberta from June 2 to June 9, 2007 and consisted of eight one-hour episodes. The show first aired on CBC Television in Canada on January 21, 2008 and concluded on March 10, 2008. An estimated 1.2 million viewers watched the debut episode. The second (and last) season of the show was shot in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia from September 8 to September 15, 2008 and began airing on January 21, 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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