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BACK TO THE FRONTIER, a reality show from Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Network, takes viewers back to simpler times.
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The brand new series "Back to the Frontier" transports participants to a meticulously recreated historical setting, challenging them to live and compete as pioneers. Contestants will perform tasks essential to frontier life throughout the series.
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LGBTQ Nation on MSNConservative Christians start petition to protest gay couple appearing on reality TV showA conservative Christian organization is lashing out at the new reality series Back to the Frontier , where three families give up modern technology to live as 1880s homesteaders, because a gay couple was cast on the show.
Chip and Joanna Gaines challenge three families to live like 1880s homesteaders, forcing them to forsake modern conveniences such as internet, electricity and indoor plumbing for eight weeks.
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BACK TO THE FRONTIER is a reality TV series on HBO Max about three modern-day families who reenact the "homestead" lifestyle of
Magnolia Network's new reality show implies that 1880s pioneers lived more authentic lives than Americans today. But it's a flawed assumption.