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The Week the Women Went

Canadian television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ7774118 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Week The Women Went is a television show produced by Paperny Films, and based on a BBC Three program of the same title. The show was part documentary, part reality television, that explores what happens when all the women in an ordinary Canadian town disappear for a week and leave the men and children to cope on their own.

The first season of the show was taped in Hardisty, Alberta from June 2 to June 9, 2007 and consisted of eight one-hour episodes. The show first aired on CBC Television in Canada on January 21, 2008 and concluded on March 10, 2008. An estimated 1.2 million viewers watched the debut episode.

The second (and last) season of the show was shot in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia from September 8 to September 15, 2008 and began airing on January 21, 2009.

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Paperny Films.

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“The Week the Women Went” enters the record as canadian television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Week, Women and Went can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7774118. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Week the Women Went” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.