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Genre Factual television Original language(s) English No. of episodes 4 Final episode date 2 July 2015 Number of seasons 1 | 3/5 The Telegraph Country of origin United Kingdom No. of seasons 1 First episode date 11 June 2015 Network Channel 4 Number of episodes 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location(s) South Omo Valley, Ethiopia Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series Similar Great Ormond Street, Tribe, My Son the Jihadi, The Murder Detectives, Kevin McCloud's Escape to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The tribe season 1 episode 1 part 1
The Tribe is a factual television series broadcast by Channel 4. It is based around a Hamar tribe family in the South Omo Valley in Ethiopia called the Ayke Mukos. The series is about how the family lives and carries out day-to-day activities and also how they carry out more important tasks, such as marriage planning and leaving home. It was filmed in the same way that Channel 4 programme, Educating Yorkshire, was filmed, using small, hidden, remote cameras to film everything that went on in the village.
Contents
The first series started broadcasting on 11 June 2015 and finished broadcasting on 2 July 2015.
Critical reception
The Independent called it a warm, fascinating documentary series
and The Guardian said it is starting to lead the way in reality-TV-gone-right
. The Express called it a jewel of the current schedules
and said This beautiful documentary series shows all the familiar faultlines and foibles of our world in the encampment of reed huts in Ethiopia's South Omo Valley.
while Mark Smith in The Herald wrote The Tribe is such good news because it rather spectacularly moves on from the stereotypes by introducing us to a family in Ethiopia who are, uncannily and hilariously, close to us.
David Chater of The Times observed What is miraculous about this (series) is the way it highlights our shared humanity.
However, The Daily Mail said We're meant to believe that Ayke Muko's family are the Tribe That Time Forgot...Reality TV producers must assume that we're all very gullible indeed.
