Airs Tuesdays, May 2-30, 2017 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV VICTORIAN SLUM HOUSE takes viewers back to the British slums of the 1800s, where a group of modern day families, couples and individuals recreate ...

I have a new favorite show and it’s called Victorian Slum House. Yeah, go ahead, and laugh. I know you want to. I get it. At first glance, Victorian Slum House looks like a perfect satire of a PBS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One family sends the father off to work in a church-bell foundry to earn his keep while the others sit home gluing matchboxes ...

“It’s a bit bleak isn’t it?” It’s a statement more than a question and an understatement at that. The speaker is Graham, a grandfather who, along with his wife, daughter and two grandchildren are ...

One January night in 1866, the London journalist James Greenwood went slumming. Disguised as a pauper, he entered the Lambeth workhouse to document conditions in a ward for indigent men and boys. The ...

PBS is taking family history education to a new, slightly cruel level. In the new show "Victorian Slum House," average British families recreate what life was like for Victorian London slum dwellers.

Ever dreamed of going back to London’s East End in the 19th century, working ’round the clock, wearing the same filthy rags every day and subsisting on the odd scrap of bread? How about watching a ...

What's this? A reality show from PBS? Yes. Well, sort of. Victorian Slum House debuts at 7 p.m. today on AETN. It seems like a reality show, although nobody gets voted off the slum and the final ...

As if doing penance for Downton Abbey and Victoria, PBS is now paying attention to the working class with its new reality series, Victorian Slum House. The show scoops up a bunch of “21st-century ...