I just watched "Riket" last night.
Watch a trailer for it here:
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/47/65/70/RIK ... rt_4_3.asf (Windows Media Player Format)
It's a Swedish reality show where the contestants have to live like in the past, it's very cool. Last season was the Middle Ages (14th century I think), this season it's the 17th century. 4 of the contestants are 'rich' and get to spend their time in this castle wearing all the gorgeous gowns and outfits of the era, one of them is the Ruler. The rest of the contestants are 'poor' and live down in this little cabin all together, and under the same conditions as poor would have lived back in those days. There are duells and battles all the time. If a poor loses a battle he/she must leave Riket (which is Swedish for kingdom), if a poor wins a battle he/she gets to move into the castle and become rich. If a rich loses a battle he/she must move down to the poor cabin and become poor, but if a rich wins he/she just stays where he/she is. So it's continually changing inhabitants in the castle as well as the poor cabin, which is really cool. Amongst the four rich contestants there are battles every week for who gets to be the Ruler.
Here are pictures to help you understand more:
The host
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/21/60/30/sauk.jpg
One of the duells:
http://img.aftonbladet.se/noje/0506/03/ ... 44_368.jpg
A battle:
http://www.svenskhistoria.se/bilder/riket2.gif
The castle they used for the 14th century season:
http://www.svenskhistoria.se/bilder/riket1.gif
The castle they're using for the 17th century season:
http://hem.bredband.net/sim1travels1/ga ... stle07.jpg
The ruler and his 3 other fellow rich contestants:
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/49/25/74/resume_pgm1ny.jpg
Another duell:
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/49/72/16/pgm ... sgatan.jpg
The ruler can take away food from the poor, sentence the poor, if they misbehave, to the dungeons (which are authentic dungeons underneath the castle hehe). It's all pretty much authentic from the era they're representing. It's really cool. I love watching the show. They play a lot of LotR score and King Arthur score during the show hehe.