Help! We Bought A Village
Series 1
202220 episodes
Intrepid Brits restore empty and unloved settlements heading steadily for collapse, as they breathe new life into remote villages, hamlets, borgos and cortijos abroad
Episode 1
Episode 1
Jul 25, 202245m
Kent landscape gardeners Paul and Yip explore their bargain settlement in Normandy, while Yorkshire couple Francesca and Carl complete the purchase of an Italian hilltop hamlet
Episode 2
Episode 2
Jul 26, 202245m
In Italy, Francesca and Carl welcome the first guests of the season to their hamlet-turned-holiday complex, and two brave Brits attempt to rescue a row of cottages from decades of overgrowth
Episode 3
Episode 3
Jul 27, 202245m
An unexpected delivery causes chaos at a medieval village in France. Meanwhile, Francesca and Carl, the owners of a hilltop hamlet in Italy, get started on a brand-new project.
Episode 4
Episode 4
Jul 28, 202245m
Francesca and Carl race against time to reopen their Italian hamlet for business. Meanwhile, a British-run restored medieval village suffers some damage after a big party, and the owners of a derelict French settlement come to terms with the need to demolish some of its buildings.
Episode 5
Episode 5
Jul 29, 202245m
Anneli, the manager of a restored medieval village in France, suffers a tricky time setting up the last wedding party of the season. Meanwhile, the owners of a French hamlet celebrate their first restored building. Cameras also follow the work of Marcial, a passionate estate agent who spends his life hunting derelict villages in Galicia.
Episode 6
Episode 6
Aug 1, 202245m
Ted and Lesa embrace tent living while renovating their French village. Penny hopes to sell her Italian borgo for a million euros. Mick and Julie's hamlet has a gruesome secret.
Episode 7
Episode 7
Aug 2, 202245m
The owners of a French hamlet visit two mysterious stone towers on the edge of their land, and a couple host the descendants of a farmer who once lived in their village.
Episode 8
Episode 8
Aug 3, 202245m
Owners of a village in Limousin are in roof repair despair. Steve and Julie wrestle a water pipe at their cave village in Spain. And the owner of an Italian borgo clinches a deal.
Episode 9
Episode 9
Aug 4, 202245m
Owners of a French village host the local council at their restaurant. A couple spend their first Christmas in their hamlet. The first guests arrive at a cave village in Andalucía.
Episode 10
Episode 10
Aug 5, 202245m
The owners of a hamlet in France battle with a wonky chimney, a couple in Limousin bring down a wall and crack a pipe, and in Andalucía, a cave village has to close temporarily.
Episode 11
Episode 11
Aug 8, 202245m
A couple from Norwich try to solve the mystery of why there are shoes in their bread oven. An Eastbourne family are moving to an abandoned village in Portugal.
Episode 12
Episode 12
Aug 9, 202245m
The owners of a hamlet in France welcome guests to a 50th birthday party, and a couple discover the water's cut off at their village in Portugal. One owner spends Christmas alone.
Episode 13
Episode 13
Aug 10, 202245m
The owners of a hamlet in the Limousin install a £10,000 septic tank, and a couple move ahead with plans for a sustainable lifestyle by buying hens. Plus, the progress of two estate agents who have spent 30 years rejuvenating a village in Portugal.
Episode 14
Episode 14
Aug 11, 202245m
The owners of a village in France officially open after two years of renovations. Cameras catch up with the man who rescued an abandoned hamlet in Spain who could now lose half of what he bought. Meanwhile, in Portugal, a couple start an animal sanctuary in their village.
Episode 15
Episode 15
Aug 12, 202245m
A couple from Norwich get married at their hamlet in the Limousin. Meanwhile, in the Dordogne region, two estate agents reveal plans to renovate a stunning chateau. And in Portugal, a couple from Eastbourne try to pick themselves up after a wild fire rips through their village.
Episode 16
Episode 16
Aug 15, 202245m
A family from Manchester transform a hamlet in France. Meanwhile, a young couple fall in love with an earthquake-damaged Italian borgo, and a couple of B&B owners in the Pyrenees buy a ramshackle holiday village built by the Catholic church in the 1930s
Episode 17
Episode 17
Aug 16, 202245m
In France, work is under way to repair the old church at a purpose-built ramshackle Catholic holiday village in France, and the owners of a hamlet wake up to find it has flooded. In Italy, the owners of an earthquake-damaged borgo find out that caring for their property is not as easy as they thought
Episode 18
Episode 18
Aug 17, 202245m
The owners of a ramshackle holiday village advertise for volunteers to complete their renovations and there are worrying power failures at a village in the French countryside
Episode 19
Episode 19
Aug 18, 202245m
A family from Manchester juggles renovations and running a holiday complex in France. A couple from Kent prepare to take ownership of a village in Portugal, and the owners of a bed and breakfast in southern France tackle the exterior of their enormous new home
Episode 20
Episode 20
Aug 19, 202245m
A derelict building in a French village gets a new lease of life. Meanwhile, in Portugal, a couple dip their toes into their first season as holiday hosts, and in southern France, a very special event takes place in a refurbished chapel