I avoid reallity TV in all its forms. Contrived rubbish. This is not. There is no voting, audience polls or fake drama injections.
We have a group of people from all walks of life sent back to live as squatters in the mid 19th century. Everything modern is removed and I mean everything. You are transported with them back in time and somehow forget you're watching something made in the 21st century. A few episodes in one of the participants has an accident and an abulance is called. When you saw the modern ambulance it was a shock - it was out of place in this world they had created.
The scenary is wonderful and the helicopter shots over the property is cinematography of a standard not expected on TV. Wonderful vision of the high country of NSW.
The tasks they have to perform as exactly as it would have been at the time. The narrator explains what they need to do and why and we're left to watch them muddle their way thru. For example there's a government inspector who turns up to make sure they are using the land allotment correctly and not wasting it.
A couple of the interactions were uncomfortable in modern times, especially the treatment of a couple of indiginous cast members. As you would expect at the time they were not considered equal and the show depicted this. I'm not sure this degree of accuracy was warranted and is probably the reason we've not seen any repeats.
It has been aired just once that I know of. It's a show that's timeless and would certainly be worth showing to new generations.