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 ...

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 ...

Premiere of five-part series with a group of 21st-century people moving into an authentic re-creation of a London tenement in the 1860s with sparse rooms, a shared water pump and an outhouse, doing ...

“Jackson” (7:30 p.m., Showtime): This award-winning documentary provides an intimate look at the lives of three women caught in the complex issues surrounding access to abortion in the Deep South. Set ...

“The 1880s” – Despite high unemployment and intolerable conditions, people flock to London, desperate for work. When curious upper-class visitors are permitted to visit the slum as tourists, the ...

BBC Two is taking East London back to the Victorian era for its new show The Slum. Families will experience what life in the capital was like back in the 1860s as part of the living history series.