The Monastery is a series of reality television programmes originally made in the United Kingdom in 2005.
The UK series The Monastery was produced by Tiger Aspect for the BBC, and filmed at Worth Abbey.
The BBC commissioned a follow-up episode, The Monastery Revisited, broadcast in June 2006;[6] this was immediately followed by a four-episode series, The Convent, in which four women spent 40 days in a convent of the Poor Clares at Arundel;[7][8][9][10][11][12] and The Retreat in 2007, in which a group of men and women lived together in a Muslim school of prayer.
[13][14] The US version, also called The Monastery, was made by the Discovery Channel and broadcast on TLC.
ABC in Australia made a similar series, The Abbey, in which five women spent 33 days living the life of an enclosed Benedictine nun.