Remember the TV series Green Acres starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor? You don’t? Well, apparently Planet Green does because they’ve created a new show that seems to me to be a reality version of the popular 60’s sitcom.

Green Acres appeared somewhat unbelievable by taking a wealthy Park Avenue attorney and his socialite wife and transplanting them to a rundown farm in the fictional town of Hottersville. But hey it was the mid 60’s and ridiculous premise sitcoms were all the rage. Fifty years later, viewers are more apt to turn to reality TV – so why not take a popular sitcom premise and marry it with a genre that has become all the rage. That’s exactly what Planet Green has done with their latest original series Beekman Farm.

Former Martha Stewart Vice President, a drag queen turned ad exec and New York Times bestselling author, are now living in an farm in upstate New York farm, with quirky neighbors, goats, pigs and a llama.

The press release certainly doesn’t compare the two shows, but that was my first thought – didn’t Green Acres have quirky neighbors? Wasn’t Eva Gabor always shouting about their pig Arnold? I’m just saying – it smells to me like we’re on the same farm… but here’s what the release says:

Beekman Farm is a funny and irreverent peek into the world of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, a fish-out-of-water couple who are reviving a farm in upstate NY in order to create a new organic lifestyle brand, ‘Beekman 1802′. The series, produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s World of Wonder, uncovers how the couple’s city slicker skill-set doesn’t mean much when it comes to wrangling pigs and making goat’s milk cheese. They’ve green lit a 10 episode deal.

Beekman Farm is executive produced by Planet Green’s SVP of Production & Development, Jeff Hasler and Executive Producer Lynn Sadofsky. Executive Producers from World of Wonder are Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey and Tom Campbell and Angela Berg is the supervising producer