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I would love to see the Flatmates series made in NZ in 1997. I still have the first episode but not the remaining episodes as my sister taped Notting Hill over the rest of the VCR. I see it on the list on your website (Flatmates (1997) [Reality TV]. Is there anyway to rent it to watch or to purchase a copy? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you for your help,
Karyna
My memories of the other show are sketchy. It involved young NZers being locked in a fancy house (in St Marys Bay?) with wall-mounted cameras (no cameramen) and live streams of different rooms. The housemates were allowed to leave for one hour per day and every week one housemate was voted out and replaced by a new one (and I think this was a low-budget reworking of the then new Big Brother).
But Flatmates was still a really important show. My favourite was the break-out star Vanessa. Cheerful, ballsy ("I don't like anyone with manufactured dreads") but with her shocking but calm recollection of her mother's physical abuse towards her.