Help! We Bought A Village
Help! We Bought A Village is a TV show on Channel 4. Intrepid Brits restore empty and unloved settlements heading steadily for collapse, as they breathe new life into remote villages, hamlets, borgos and cortijos abroad. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 60 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2025.
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1:00:00Help! We Bought A Village
Francessca and Carl juggle running one village with the renovation of another. Cesidio looks to the future of his borgo and puts plans in place for the next generation. (S3 Ep25/30)
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1:00:00Extreme weather hampers Hayley and Lee's French hamlet. Francessca and Carl struggle with rubble. And can Cesidio save his Italian vineyard? (S3 Ep24/30)
1:00:00In the Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Nicky and Graham go all out to get a five-star rating. In Italy, Francessca and Carl are left high and dry as they try to get water to their village. (S3 Ep23/30)
1:00:00In Italy, Francessca and Carl find a way to fund their second settlement. In France, Nicky and Graham peel back years of neglect at their village. (S3 Ep22/30)
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In Nouvelle-Aquitaine, disaster strikes just before Nicky and Graham welcome their first guests. In Normandy, Hayley and Lee feel the strain of Brexit rules. (S3 Ep21/30)
1:00:00In France, Kev gives his music studio a test run. And after nearly four years of work, Sarah and Steve's holiday accommodation at their quinta is finally open for business. (S3 Ep20/30)
1:00:00Sarah and Steve's spiral staircase sends them into a spin. In Charente, Simon and Racheal's barn conversion takes shape. Carol and Beau welcome their first guests in Umbria. (S3 Ep19/30)
1:00:00Sarah and Steve's new doors and windows are finally installed at their Portuguese quinta. And Simon and Racheal become custodians of a 17th-century hamlet in Charente. (S3 Ep18/30)
1:00:00Sarah and Steve mark an anniversary at their Portuguese quinta. Carol and Beau's Italian hamlet is flooded with problems. And Kev delves into his French slate village's past. (S3 Ep17/30)
1:00:00In France, Kev begins his mission to restore an old quarry village. In Umbria, mum and daughter Carol and Beau get to work on their tiny hamlet. (S3 Ep16/30)
1:00:00Michael battles decades of decay at his Spanish hamlet. Ken and Pauline safeguard the future of their village. And can Carrie and Ross save a settlement that nature's consumed? (S3 Ep14/30)
1:00:00In Bulgaria, Carrie and Ross try to turn back time. Lolly and Sean make way for a new resident in France. Michael attempts to rescue a Spanish hamlet. (S3 Ep13/30)
1:00:00Can Carrie and Ross save a Bulgarian village from dereliction? Ken and Pauline have a mechanical meltdown. Lolly and Sean fight to resurrect a manoir. (S3 Ep12/30)
1:00:00Ken and Pauline become the surprise guardians of an entire French hamlet. Carrie and Ross hunt for a property in Bulgaria's land of the lost villages. (S3 Ep11/30)
1:00:00In Italy, Lucie and Jerry begin a salvaging mission at their village. And in France, Patrick and Mihaela put their newly renovated holiday rental to the test. (S3 Ep10/30)
1:00:00Mike and Jools create a computer game based on their Italian hamlet's medieval history. And can Patrick and Mihaela rescue their time-worn estate? (S3 Ep9/30)
1:00:00As the seasons change, mother nature presents new problems for Patrick and Mihaela's country estate. And in Italy, can Lucie and Jerry turn a profit from their olive oil? (S3 Ep8/30)
1:00:00At his fire-damaged settlement in France, Dan makes a chateau watertight. In Italy, Lucie and Jerry's earthquake-damaged village is dealt a further blow as it's hit by floods. (S3 Ep7/30)
1:00:00Patrick and Mihaela take up residence in a time-worn aristocratic estate in France. And in Italy, Lucie and Jerry re-awaken a lost farming community. (S3 Ep6/30)
1:00:00Roberto's bridge finally opens to the public in Italy, Paul and Yip risk it all to prevent their barn from collapsing, and there's a fishy fiesta at Ben and Susana's village. (S3 Ep5/30)