A Home In Italy, A Dream Also For The Reality Shows!

A Home In Italy, A Dream Also For The Reality Shows!

All televisions from all over the world have been broadcasting reality shows of all types, shapes and contents, showing how anonymous singers would start a successful career, or how celebrities would survive in a tropical island or simply living in a luxurious flat with all sort of comforts doing just nothing until people vote you out. But lately seems that some TV channels, especially from Northern Europe, have started to be attracted by the Italian life style and want to see how some people from their country would cope with it. Everything started in Netherlands, where the producers of KRO, one of the main TV channel of the country, choose central Italy, in the stunning region of Le Marche, more precisely in the town of Piticchio, a peculiar small village with a population of 720 people, as a set of a new reality show. Four Dutch couples left their home, family, job and friends behind to take part of the "De Italiansee Droom", so it is called the reality show, which means "The Italian Dream". The TV channel bought a house to be restored in the centre of Piticchio and the participants had to restore it and convert it in a nice and cozy Bed & Breakfast. The property consists of a three storey house of 120 square meters each floor plus a basement, and an annex, a former jeans factory, for a total property surface of 1000 square meters. Just to give you an idea of the amount of restoration work to do, the property before restoration had one single bathroom for the whole house and after restoration the B&B had to have 6 bedrooms, each with an en-suite bathroom. Obviously, that was the "easiest" part of the game as they also had to learn all the Italian life style aspects: they had to learn the Italian language, how to cook Italian dishes and, last but not least, how to restore a typical Italian home. To do so the producers choose three locals, an Italian teacher, a chef and an architect, to teach them how to accomplish the tasks and to judge the results. After the first five weeks the couple with the lowest score would leave the reality show, after other five weeks the other couple with the lowest score would leave the game. Eventually the winner between the two remaining couples would literally win the whole B&B. The reality show had such a great success that the format was taken also by a Belgian channel which duplicated the reality in another town in Le Marche, the village of Montelparo, and also a Danish channel has commissioned The Italian Dream and four Danish couples have already reached Italy, although the program will be on air this coming spring. There are rumors that also a British channel is interested in the format. The stunning scenario of central Italy and the charm of the Italian life style that the reality show offered to its audience have also given a further boost to the already high interest for Italian homes for sale from Belgian and Dutch investors with a strong increase in property demand in the whole Italy, particularly in the region of Le Marche where the reality shows took place.