{"id":6792,"date":"2019-03-18T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house\/"},"modified":"2019-07-23T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T21:02:20","slug":"case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Rich House, Poor House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sarah Tong, director of sales at Hat Trick International, discusses the international success of the factual format <\/em>Rich House, Poor House<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ever wondered how the other half lives? The participants on Hat Trick International\u2019s factual format <em>Rich House, Poor House<\/em> may have the answer. Each week, the show takes a family that falls in the lowest ten percent of household income in their country and a family that falls in the highest, and sees them switch out homes, statuses and budgets. As much social experiment as it is spectacle, the series follows the so-called \u201cHaves and Have-Nots\u201d as they experience\u2014for better or worse\u2014the lives of their richer or poorer counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The series\u2019 stated mission \u201cto find out whether money really does buy happiness\u201d has proven to be a culturally ubiquitous one, as the format has been adapted in markets across Europe and beyond. The Dutch version, <em>Steenrijk, Straatarm<\/em>, was the first to air, followed by the German and Belgian variants. The format has also sold to Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Sweden, as well as New Zealand, Africa and Asia. \u201cThe increasing gap <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/newsletters.worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/img\/2019-03-18-Rich-House-Poor-House.jpg\" alt=\"***Image***\" width=\"230\" height=\"171\" \/>between the richest and poorest in society is a global issue, and so very relevant to audiences worldwide,\u201d Tong tells <em>TV Formats<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A Hat Trick in-house production for Channel 5, the show originated in the U.K., where it is currently on its fourth season. The show debuted in March 2017 to ratings 50 percent higher than Channel 5\u2019s slot average. Hat Trick soon secured straight-to-series commissions for the Netherlands with SBS6 and Germany with SAT.1, where the local versions launched in quick succession in October of the same year, also becoming local ratings hits. Format options were then signed with broadcasters in Belgium (BlazHoffski), Denmark (Nice) and France (Newen).<\/p>\n<p>As the format travels, the basic premise stays the same, but some small changes are made to better suit local audiences. \u201cWe attach a list of all the key format points that cannot be changed in a local version. The main tweak that has taken place is the families meeting in the German and Dutch versions\u2014they do not meet in the original U.K. version,\u201d Tong says. \u201cThe German version airs in a two-hour slot, so longer than the U.K. one-hour version, but that\u2019s fairly standard in Germany. There have been no other significant changes as the format works extremely well as is!\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rich House, Poor House<\/em> travels well around the world as societal wealth gaps are pervasive, and everyone can relate to speculating about how other people really live behind closed doors. It also works because \u201cit\u2019s entertaining, well-made and [has] lots of episodes!\u201d Tong continues. \u201cPlus, social experiments and docs with human interest [slants] are always popular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two families paired up for each episode of the show are matched based on the things they have in common. Hat Trick wants the playing field to be somewhat even in the other arenas of the families\u2019 lives, so the financial variable is isolated. The focus of the program is how money affects day-to-day family life, and at the end of both of the families\u2019 life swaps, the viewer sees that both sides have common, shared values that prove far more important than their financial circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Tong, director of sales at Hat Trick International, discusses the international success of the factual format Rich House, Poor House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":6793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69],"tags":[873,895],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-profiles","category-top-stories","tag-hat-trick-international","tag-rich-house-poor-house","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Case Study: Rich House, Poor House - TVFORMATS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Case Study: Rich House, Poor House - TVFORMATS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sarah Tong, director of sales at Hat Trick International, discusses the international success of the factual format Rich House, Poor House.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVFORMATS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-18T13:49:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-23T21:02:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/07\/2019-03-18-Rich-House-Poor-House.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"319\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/\",\"name\":\"Case Study: Rich House, Poor House - TVFORMATS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-18T13:49:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-23T21:02:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/case-study-rich-house-poor-house-2019-03\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Case Study: Rich House, Poor House\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/\",\"name\":\"TVFORMATS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\",\"name\":\"Alison Skilton\",\"description\":\"Alison Skilton is an associate editor of World Screen. 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