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The Monastery is a series of reality television programmes originally made in the United Kingdom in 2005. The format involves a number of individuals, who are not necessarily religious, spending a period of time in a place of religious retreat.[1] It has since been copied for UK sequels and in the United States and Australia.
The Monastery | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Dollan Cannell |
Narrated by | Barbara Flynn |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producers | John Blake Charles Brand |
Producers | Gabe Solomon Dollan Cannell |
Editor | Martin Cooper |
Camera setup | Jim Fyans Steve Plant Gabe Solomon Dollan Cannell |
Running time | 60 min |
Production company | Tiger Aspect Productions |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 10 May 2005 |
Related | |
The Monastery Revisited |
The UK series The Monastery was produced by Tiger Aspect for the BBC, and filmed at Worth Abbey. It was first transmitted in May 2005.[2]
The Monastery won the Merit Award for Religious Programming in the Sandford St. Martin Trust Awards in 2006. The series was re-broadcast by other television networks.
The BBC commissioned a follow-up episode, The Monastery Revisited, broadcast in June 2006;[6] this was immediately followed by a four-episode series, The Convent, in which four women spent 40 days in a convent of the Poor Clares at Arundel;[7][8][9][10][11][12] and The Retreat in 2007, in which a group of men and women lived together in a Muslim school of prayer.[13][14]
The US version, also called The Monastery, was made by the Discovery Channel and broadcast on TLC. It debuted on 22 October 2006 and aired on Sundays at 10:00 pm. In the first season, five men of various backgrounds who were facing personal crises volunteered to live at a Benedictine monastery, the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in northern New Mexico, for 40 days.[15] There was also a series made at Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey in Iowa, but it was never broadcast.
ABC in Australia made a similar series, The Abbey, in which five women spent 33 days living the life of an enclosed Benedictine nun.[16]
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