There Goes the Neighborhood is an American reality competition television series produced by Next Entertainment and Jay Bienstock Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television which features eight suburban families shut out from the outside world with no television, internet, phones, or contact with anybody outside of their neighbourhood.
The families compete in challenges against each other and each week one family is banished from the neighbourhood, thereby eliminating the family from contention for the show's $250,000 prize fund.
The series aired in the USA on CBS from 9 August to 13 September, 2009. There are seven one-hour episodes in the series.
There Goes the Neighborhood premiered in South Africa on DStv's M-Net Series channel on Friday 4 June 2010, at 19h30. New episodes air weekly.
Repeats
Saturdays: 01h30, 07h30, 13h30
Synopsis
There Goes the Neighborhood is a seven episode reality-competition series which features eight families in a suburban neighbourhood who are enclosed by a massive 20-foot wall as they compete in family-friendly games for the grand prize of $250,000.
In what promises to be the ultimate social and family bonding experiment, this neighbourhood will be cut off from the outside world as it becomes family vs. family in a competition to win upgrades for their lives and their homes.
With virtually no electricity and no ability to text-message, watch television or surf the Internet, these families will be forced to reconnect and work together as a team.
For the duration of the competition, the eight homes will be surrounded by the daunting wall with no way in or out. Each week, another family will be voted out of the game until one victorious group remains to claim the $250,000 grand prize.
There Goes the Neighborhood is produced by Next Entertainment and Jay Bienstock Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television. Mike Fleiss and Jay Bienstock are the executive producers.
Matt Rogers (American Idol, Really Big Things) is the host.