The Week The Women Went

By trent on Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Many of you know that I was born and raised 30 minutes from Hardisty, Alberta and it was still a shock to find out that they filmed a CBC reality show called “The Week The Women Went” there. It is even more amazing to me how many of the people in the show I actually know. Even more amazing yet is how stunningly nice the town looks now (yes, you have to watch the show to find out) or be like me and just go there :)
The show has now aired 2 episodes and is extremely funny. It has its own facebook group as well and even its own blog from CBC. The blog itself is pretty darn funny when you actually spend the time reading it.

So what is this show really about? From the Facebook Group:

This is a weekly show on Monday evenings. CBC has filmed the lives of 117 women and their families living in Hardisty, Alberta. The women have left Hardisty for a one week paid holiday and the Husbands, Ex-Husbands, and Boyfriends are responsible for looking after the town and the children!

The women actually leave and head to Canmore, Alberta near the Banff National Park. Great show!   So why Hardisty?   They explain that in the CBC link in the first sentence of this blog, but we all know that since Doug Griffith is in it, he most likely applied for a grant to fix the town and ended up with this.    That is pure speculation on my part, but good on you Doug!

It is amazing to me that I grew up so close to Hardisty and it gets some fame. I actually lived in Cochrane near Canmore. Still gets me that I live so darn close to where Nickelback grew up. Good times. Good times!

Comments

trent on February 1st, 2008 at 12:07 am

The real “official” blog as well going back to the conception of the project, the town selection, the making of and everything else! It is the best resource really!

http://thewomenwent.blogspot.com/

Trent

trent on May 8th, 2008 at 9:43 am

iTunes Canada just released the sale of this season in their TV Shows area! If you are interested, you might want to pick this one up :)

 

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