Help! We Bought A Village

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

More stories of British people rebuilding abandoned historic settlements in Europe. A Scottish lawyer of Italian origin falls in love with the village his forefathers left behind, while Paul and Yip fight to breathe life into their French village.

A restored village in Italy prepares to host its first guests and the owners of a derelict French hamlet begin renovating their most cherished building. In Puglia, renovations on a quirky hamlet grind to a halt leaving the owners devastated.

Burglars target a historical settlement in Puglia and a pair of village saviours in France prepare to welcome their first guest. Work begins on an abandoned village in Portugal.

A family feel the financial strain of trying to resurrect an Italian ghost village. The owners of a crumbling French hamlet attempt to save the decaying village bakery and its roof, while those in charge of a restored village in the Italian hills prepare to hold their biggest event yet.

Building work at a Portuguese village finally gathers pace, there are wedding bells at a rebuilt Italian borgo, and the owners of an ancient French hamlet reach a major milestone as they open their glamping site to paying guests.

An ex-Olympian and his wife take on a derelict settlement in France, and a couple pick up the pieces after their Italian village is devasted by an earthquake.

A family of seven from Suffolk begin to renovate a hamlet in rural France, and we meet holiday hosts Ben and Susana, who've turned a Spanish village into luxury B&Bs. Plus, a chance to catch up with serial renovators Paul and Yip, as they battle storms and burst riverbanks at their settlement in Normandy.

Justin and Mel return to their village in France after the winter only to find it's being strangled by vegetation. At their hamlet in Spain, Ben and Susana are finally able to open their restaurant to guests. Village owners Paul and Yip start to feel overwhelmed by the scale of their renovations.

In France, Justin and Mel find horses in their field and wasps in their attic and Roberto's record-breaking bridge linking two ghost villages is almost ready to open. At Ben and Susana's Spanish hamlet, a cement truck gets stuck on the boggy road. And Normandy village owners Paul and Yip consider selling up.

After a crisis of confidence, Paul and Yip visit Italy to see other village projects, including Roberto's record-breaking bridge. Meanwhile, Justin and Mel discover a First World War document hidden in the beams in their French village. Over in Spain, Ben and Susana's plans to convert a barn into more guest accommodation run into trouble.

Roberto's bridge finally opens to the public, bringing thousands of tourists to the two villages it connects. Paul and Yip have risky work to do to prevent their barn from collapsing. Across at Ben and Susana's village in Spain, there's a party for the organisers of a local fish festival.

Patrick and Mihaela have swapped life in Kent to take up residence in a once-regal but now time-worn aristocratic estate in France. Dan, who owns a secret settlement that saved hundreds of lives during the Second World War, takes his French restoration to new heights to fit a roof. And in Italy, Lucie and Jerry seek extra help to ease their workload as they battle to re-awaken a lost farming community.

Martine, a former wine merchant from Norfolk, is determined to save the ghost village of Rabatana in southern Italy. Gloucestershire couple Tony and Terry have bought a hamlet in France but need to sell their own home to fund renovations.

Martine starts renovating the cellar in one of her houses in Italy and welcomes guests to sleep under the stars. In France, Tony and Terry install a heavy wood burner in Chicheville and Paul and Yip battle to save their middle cottage at La Buslière.

Paul and Yip pick up the keys to their new cottage in Normandy. In southern Italy, Martine's builders dig up the cobbled street to connect her cellar to the mains. Tony and Terry return to the UK following the death of their beloved dog.

In Normandy, Paul and Yip attempt to renovate a well, but they're up against terrible weather and in southern Italy, Martine is granted access to a cellar where she makes some remarkable discoveries. Londoner Marcial has been trying to raise funds to buy a village in Spain for the last four years.

In Normandy, Paul and Yip make big sacrifices to ensure the future of their village. In southern Italy, Martine uncovers fascinating artefacts while painting a picture of her village's past. And in northern Spain, Marcial hopes that, after a five-year wait, he may finally secure ownership of a sleepy hamlet.

Former soldier Mike pushes forward to save a crumbling mountain village in Spain. In Sicily, the lure of a one-euro home sparks George's interest in reviving an ailing ghost town. Paul and Yip's village in France reveals new clues to its past.