I missed it today too. My sodding video has given up so I'm going to have to ask my parents to tape it onto DVD and post it to me.

We've read somewhere that there will be 20 episodes........ Just waiting for the Melbourne ones!

Watching it now and she said its 20 episodes at the start

OK...I thought it was great ENTERTAINMENT........

Look, the family wanted to love it, they were shown great things, great lifestyle and did love what they were shown.

Of course everyone who does a reccie (and who eventually move to Australia) have to cut their cloth accordingly.....not everyone has $1m to spend on a house.

I'm sure that the remaining 19 programmes will show some people who have a budget of $400-500k for a house and I'm sure there may be families who will choose to stay in the UK. This was the first programme of 20 (there are 20 shows.....checked sky+ and it's on next Monday....with a butcher!) andI'd say the worst thing about it was the fact that 't was given a daytime slot.

As for saying that the BBC/Family should have mentioned the fact that the family might have experienced 'jet-lag' etc.!! Might they also have suggested that there's a 'bit of hassle' involved in exchanging £'s for $'s??? Or that it's really 'quite inconvenient' that there's a 'rather annoying' time difference between the UK and Oz?

Its alright the program. Slightly repetitive and i hope the format is not so rigid for the rest of the episodes.... or follow the same trail or all missing family etc.... la de da. And the amount of repeated clips all the way through are a little boring.

On a plus side the woman said she was 37, she looks great for her age As a youngster i'd chat her up!

Well, yes, if they were going to give a balanced view then they should.
I agree with you that it was entertainment, and as daytime TV goes it was alright. I could see it being edited down to half hours for an evening slots.

i think she said there was 20 families, not 20 episodes?

I didn't like it actually... was disappointed, maybe the episode should have been alot longer..Thought they spent Far too much time on teh UK side of things.. I wanted to see more of Oz etc, seeing the family mingling and finding there own way... 1 week wasn't enough .. the Family Talbot, well done, and great choice, to stay...

Congratulations, you look like lovely people..
I hope it all works out for you guys

Bonny

Hi guys

I haven't used this site for rather a long time but we were one of the families involved in this.

Aussie tourism didn't pay for accommodation although it does seem very pro Aus which is really the intent of the programme to be fair. Families were offered 2 weeks away with filming taking place during one of those and the family had to make their own arrangements including accommodation requirements for whichever week they weren't being filmed. We were filmed the day we arrived for the rest of the first week and I was so knackered I couldn't find my makeup never mind put any on so I look like a zombie until the last day. Maybe the first family had already had a week there hence being quite refreshed. The video messages from home are built up more than that and the reflecting on the trip that we did took hours as we were quizzed by the director over and over again. I cried, went to go and powder my nose and was dragged back with him screaming "Where are you going? This is great telly, come back!"

20 families went from a variety of occupations on the skilled occupations list, not necessarily the modl. Each family is supposed to have its own programme and the destinations available were: Brisbane, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. Families were asked to indicate how much they would spend on a property in their chosen place and everything was tailored towards that. We aren't planning to spend $1 million more, more like $350 000.

Programmes are on for the next 4 weeks, same time although I thought there would be more information on the programme considering how much filming they did but maybe it depends. I agree it does give a very superficial view of life down under and that's a shame as the opportunities were great. Until the show I hadn't been although I had started the process so it was a useful thing to have done. I got alot out of going but for people here watching the show, it doesn't contain half as much information as we were led to believe it would. I was really disappointd with the first show but then again I am not a hairdresser nor do I plan to go to Sydney so maybe someone who is might have got more out of it than me...

Hope you enjoy the other programmes x

Hi Libby,

thanks for posting your experience with the programme. I think all the families were very brave to do this, as you can never know how the programme makers edit you.

Looking forward to the other 19 programmes.

Gina

Hi Libby, I really enjoyed watching the programme and look forward to the next 19 episodes! Really pleased about that because I thought there was only 5 programmes.

I'm not bothered about the balance of the programme as I have already made my mind up about Oz, but its really interesting to see how others feel about their pending moves. I felt really sad for the family in the first programme, its a shame that the other daughter didn't want to go. Hope it all works out for them anyway.

Where are you heading Libby?


Jackie

Can anyone record this programme and post it up on YouTube so that the rest of us workers dont have to throw sickies or turn up very late for work to see it????

Just a thought.........?

Ta.

well second series today lets hope it is better than yesterdays episode, we will see.
:scared:

Hi,
watched it last night after getting in from work and had very mixed reactions..

negatives...very repetitive, how many times did we see the Mother cry (too many, once is enough), too much time spent in UK location, made emigrating seem far too easy, annoying presenter, format almost identical to that other 'moving downunder program', even down to the annoying logo popping up every 5 minutes

Positives... some real good bits of info.. for example the quarentine bit and the costs involved :scared: , good to show the reality check that leaving family behind has on people, very nice family (makes a change for someone not to be edited to be seen to be bitching about things all the time!), good to see film of Australia that isn't from the perspective of holidays or wildlife.

Overall.. ok, just which they would make it less repetitive, surely with all that filming they could show some more footage of Australia (especially as Libby says so much filming was done) or have a 5 minute section on the costs and practical issues involved in their prospective migration. It is a show that could be cut by 15 minutes while still retaining the same amount of film..

They're in Perth, just for those unable to switch on right now!
(There are some perks to being jobless...)

I think that one was better than yesterday's - much more balanced, I thought.
Not so keen on the snakes & spiders section! :scared: