"Family" New series on Channel 4

[geordieminx]

Anyone know what this is about? Worth watching?

Oh, I'm glad you mentioned class, Fio - I didn't dare In the Radio Times it said that this programme differed from the original (in the 70s?) because that was a working class family and this family are middle class.

I'd say they were working class with money - rather than what I think of as middle class.

Does social class B mean working class with money, Wendy ?

Surely you are Mumsnet royalty, Fio?

The original documentry in the 70s was a completely ground breaking event - really one of the first of this kind of "fly on the wall" documentaries about a very working class family in Reading. Completely different backdrop - the three day week, etc. I was hoping this new family would be a bit less afluent and "comfortable", when I said before that it wasn't most people's reality I meant in terms of the lovely big house etc rather than the reality of obnoxious teenagers.

I am working class and this family are definatly a step above me on the social ladder

Here wo go, this stupid obssession with class yet again
Who cares?

well, you don't and other people do, mrsr... is that not okay?

Is there such a thing as class and what does it mean. I have never understood, is it money? education? parents who are proffessionals? people who behave with immpecable manners and ettiqette?

I won't start a thread as I can imagine it's been done to death

What i'm trying to say is why people think they have class (the tv family) I see them as no different form me except they look as though they have more money.

I don't believe class exists

Why would anyone care though?
It is wierd to read posts trying to guess the class of the famliy- they are who they are, you've watched the family dynamic unfold, why is it necessary to label them?
I find it odd

They had roast duck for dinner - that is not a normal dinner in our working class household

Well I found all the people sympathetic actually and thought they were a lovely family. The dad obviously adores his wife and family. think the 19 year old is quite immature. I was most definitely not like that at 19yrs old then I left home to go to university at 18. That is probably the thing that struck me most, the fact that the 19 year old seems to be behaving like a 15/16 year old.

Really FioFio, always thought duck was expensive

Was really refering to the cost though FioFio, more about the difference in class.

Roasted duck in not a meal we would consider as a normal everyday meal (unless dh was having duckpancakes from the chinese)

wasnt

We always had game growing up as well (rabbit, pheasant) but it was more a treat for christmas time.

And it was never prepared by the butcher. Always by my dad after it had been hanging in our shed.