‘The Good Life’ is being recreated for real as part of a new BBC experiment.
The classic 1970s sitcom is set to return to screens – but with a twist – as it’ll be based on real life families who attempt to make their homes self-sufficient by living off their own land, growing their own crops and avoiding packaging from supermarkets.
The hit comedy first hit television screens in 1975 and ran for four series as viewers watched Tom and Barbara Good – played by Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal respectively – turn their home into a money-saving environmentally-friendly plot.
The couple were forced to ditch their well-heeled lifestyle and live off almost no income after Tom packed in his job but, using their initiative, they turned their front and back garden into an allotment to grow fresh fruit and vegetables.
They also had chickens, two pigs – Pinky and Perky – a goat called Geraldine and a cockerel named Lenin – and using the animals’ waste they created electricity.
In a society where people are desperate avoid plastic-wrapped food, cut down on the energy used from high-fly gadgets and recycle packaging, the BBC have taken the idea of ‘The Good Life’ characters and turned it into a real-life television experiment.
It’s not yet known when the programme will go to air or whether it use the same name as the hit comedy but producers are currently on the hunt for people to take part.
BBC turn hit sitcom The Good Life into real experiment for new TV show
