Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"The Specials\" is an multi-award winning reality television series about five friends with intellectual disabilities who share a house in Brighton, UK.Originally made as a web-series the show has since made the transition to television.The five housemates, Sam, Hilly, Lewis, Megan and Lucy, have been friends since childhood. Aged between 19-23, one person, Lewis, has Williams syndrome while the others have Down syndrome. The series was launched on its website on 2 September 2009 and ran until mid-November 2009 with weekly 10-minute episodes.Created by producer/director Katy Lock and Daniel May, the series follows the independent living venture that arose when 20-year-old Hilly told her parents she wanted to live with her friends. Hilly's parents, Carol and Dafydd Williams, set up Small Opportunities, the company which runs the house where the housemates in The Specials live.The observational documentary series follows their lives and has won rave reviews for the insight it gives into inclusive, independent living for adults with intellectual disabilities. It was used in a Disability Studies course that focuses on media and disability at City University of New York in summer 2011.The series is ground-breaking in its empowering structure, by letting young adults with intellectual disabilities tell the audience about their lives through the narration in the series. Reviewers have compared it to MTV's The Real World, saying \"inner-house romance and friendship rule, minus the evil.\""@en }
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- The_Specials_(internet_TV_series) abstract "\"The Specials\" is an multi-award winning reality television series about five friends with intellectual disabilities who share a house in Brighton, UK.Originally made as a web-series the show has since made the transition to television.The five housemates, Sam, Hilly, Lewis, Megan and Lucy, have been friends since childhood. Aged between 19-23, one person, Lewis, has Williams syndrome while the others have Down syndrome. The series was launched on its website on 2 September 2009 and ran until mid-November 2009 with weekly 10-minute episodes.Created by producer/director Katy Lock and Daniel May, the series follows the independent living venture that arose when 20-year-old Hilly told her parents she wanted to live with her friends. Hilly's parents, Carol and Dafydd Williams, set up Small Opportunities, the company which runs the house where the housemates in The Specials live.The observational documentary series follows their lives and has won rave reviews for the insight it gives into inclusive, independent living for adults with intellectual disabilities. It was used in a Disability Studies course that focuses on media and disability at City University of New York in summer 2011.The series is ground-breaking in its empowering structure, by letting young adults with intellectual disabilities tell the audience about their lives through the narration in the series. Reviewers have compared it to MTV's The Real World, saying \"inner-house romance and friendship rule, minus the evil.\"".