Lifetime finally takes women away

The US version of BBC reality format The Week the Women Went is finally going ahead, five years after the format was originally picked up stateside.

A+E Networks-owned Lifetime TV first produced a pilot for The Week the Women Went in 2007. In the show, all the females in a small town leave and viewers get to see how the men cope without them.

The cablenet is now moving ahead with the project. A four-part series, beginning with a 90-minute premiere followed by two hour-long episodes and a 120-minute finale, will debut on Wednesday June 6 at 22.00.

The latest version of the social experiment, which originally aired on BBC3 in the UK in 2005, took place in the South Carolina town of Yemassee in the fall.

The US series is produced by BBC Worldwide Productions with Jon Kroll (Big Brother, Amazing Race) executive producing alongside Elli Hakami and Jane Tranter from BBC Worldwide. Rob Sharenow, Gena McCarthy, Colleen Conway and Noah Pollack are executive producers for Lifetime.

Local versions of the format have previously been made in Finland, France, Canada, India and Morocco.