In a first for South African television, pay-TV channel M-Net has given six production companies the opportunity to showcase the melting pot of cultures that makes up the country’s rainbow nation. In each episode, filmed and edited by a different production company, two people from two very different families are swapped to experience a completely different lifestyle for two weeks.
The swapped family members may only use shops, transport, money, help and modes of communication that their hosts would use. The first episode of “Culture Shock’, which goes out on Sunday, 18 February at 17h00 and was produced by Pistoleros Productions, features two diverse families. A wealthy father and spoilt daughter from Port Elizabeth will walk into the home of a fishing family from Arniston, and vice versa.
Compromises must be made and tears will be shed before the participants can return home to their cultural comfort zones.
