Chaos at the chateau....

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,312

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  01/05/12 - 20:22 #2

  It was a fantastic show, as was it's predecessor A Place in Slovakia. Unfortunately it's one of those shows I don't think we'll ever seen again - although it has a strong cult following there's not enough demand for a DVD release!
  
  I guess best to wait and see if one of the digitial channels (or More4) decide to show it.

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• wuffles Posts: 45,764

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  01/05/12 - 20:27 #3

  Was that the one with the American woman and her boyfriend who was a former rock star, or was that 'Chaos at the Casa'?. If I remember rightly, they seemed to split up every week and the production team usually ended up dragging one of them back from the airport/ferry terminal!:D

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• Marksw76 Posts: 969

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  01/05/12 - 22:15 #4

  There were a few of these type of programmes around this time. I don't think they were 'true' fly on the wall documentaries. The characters were real but there were quite a few rumours flying around that they were all paid money to 'do what they were told by the producers'. So I guess they were a bit of a crossover to comedy drama.
  
  I do remember the one with 'Rocco' (I think that was his name) the rockstar bloke who had an American wife.
  
  Before this, BBC2 has their pwn version with 'The Armstrongs' which I did manage to get on DVD! It was the one about the Coventry double glazing company with some rather unusual approaches to staff motivation and discipline. I think this was filmed around 2003/2004.
  
  I keep meaning to put it on YouTube but I wasnt sure anyone would remember it!

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  04/05/12 - 21:24 #5

  I can remember The Armstrongs!
  
  There was also a prog on BBC1 around the same time called, I think, 'Hotel on Sea' which was in the same kind of style - fly on the wall, incompetent managers and camp 'characters'.

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