Questions I Have About Ōpaki

I'm really loving Ōpaki.  Though I'm trying to watch it slowly, because a part of me feels I should wait and watch it when I can understand more.

I'm trying to balance watching the show with doing other sorts of te reo learning.

Though another part of me wonders if watching the show while struggling to understand IS the best way to learn. 

Well...maybe I'm doing the right thing, then.  If it's a bad idea to watch the show at this point, I'm not watching a lot of it.  If it's a good idea to watch the show, that's cool, because I'm doing that.

Anyway...

What I really wanted to talk about is things I wonder about the show regarding how much is real and how much is staged.

The show's premise is three people come to stay at this house with the host Pānia Papa.  

Each group stays for....I think three to four episodes?  I'm currently with the second group.

So far, it's started with the three people hanging out in the kitchen where they talk about where they're from.

Then two of them go into a bedroom where they chat the best they can in te reo Māori and kind of quiz each other and/or compare vocabulary.

While this is happening, Pānia Papa talks to the third person in the laundry room.  After a bit of chatting, they meet up with the other two in the bedroom.

I'm rambling.

I probably don't need to describe the whole set up.

What I'm struggling to get at is my curiosity about....

A) Is this a real house or a set?

B) Are the guests truly sleeping over?  There's conversation about how well the guests slept. Is that just language practice, or a (somewhat) real conversation?

C) If two of the guests are actually sleeping in the room that's shown, how is the filming done?  Is there a camera person in with them?  Or is a camera placed somewhere?  If so, is the camera on all the time and then they edit out the private stuff like sleeping, snoring, farting, etc?

Can you tell I don't watch a lot of reality TV?

I guess one of the main things I'm wondering is if this is an overnight educational experience mostly for the benefit of the guests, and they tape portions of the show to expand the benefits to others.

Or is it mostly a staged production with the main purpose of educating viewers? 

So...for example.  They will play a game to practice te reo Māori; then as Pānia Papa says some closing remarks, the group will continue to play the game.  Is this just for show?  Or do they actually continue once the camera stops rolling.