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Revision as of 00:20, 16 November 2023
Grand Designs | |
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Presented by | Kevin McCloud |
Opening theme | "Grand Designs" by David Lowe |
Ending theme | "Grand Designs" by David Lowe |
No. of series | 20 |
No. of episodes | 159 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production companies | Talkback (1999–2006) Talkback Thames (2006–11) Boundless (2012–20) Naked Television (2021–) |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 29 April 1999 present | –
Related | |
Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home |
Grand Designs is a British television series that has broadcast on Channel 4 since 29 April 1999 and is presented by Kevin McCloud.
Format
Episodes generally follow a regular format, with small variations depending on the progress of the build. At the beginning of an episode, McCloud meets the clients embarking on the project; he visits the site with them, and discusses the plans for the building. A computer visualisation or computer-aided design view of the intended project is shown. Once ground work commences, he visits the site periodically, following the build progress, noting any changes, hitches or delays; the build frequently runs over budget and completes later than scheduled. McCloud will often do a piece to camera concentrating on any unique materials or features in the house. He visits again once the building is made watertight, and the first and second fixes have commenced. He makes a final visit to the site in its finished or near-finished state, once the occupants have moved in. A tour of the house is then given; McCloud brings the episode to a close summarising the house, its construction, and his opinions.
If a house is not completed before filming finishes, it will sometimes be revisited in a later episode. In more recent series, McCloud revisits past unfinished builds once they have been completed and may stay overnight.
The properties featured in Grand Designs are hugely varied in style and design, from underground homes to converted water towers to buildings constructed in methods of sustainable architecture; the only common factor is that they are all unusual or extravagant. The most popular programme of the series for both Kevin McCloud and viewers was Ben Law's home with a sweet chestnut frame made from his own woodland, and costing very little.[1] This was broadcast as episode 3 of series 3.[2]
Episodes
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 8[3] | 29 April 1999 | 24 June 1999 | |
2 | 8[3] | 17 July 2001 | 4 September 2001 | |
3 | 8[3] | 12 February 2003 | 1 October 2003 | |
4 | 7[3] | 21 January 2004 | 10 March 2004 | |
5 | 20[3] | 6 April 2005 | 16 May 2007 | |
6 | 7[3] | 16 January 2008 | 2 April 2008 | |
7 | 8[3] | 28 January 2009 | 8 April 2009 | |
8 | 8[3] | 15 September 2010 | 3 November 2010 | |
9 | 7[3] | 14 September 2011 | 26 October 2011 | |
10 | 8[3] | 12 September 2012 | 7 November 2012 | |
11 | 9[3] | 4 September 2013 | 30 October 2013 | |
12 | 7[3] | 3 September 2014 | 15 October 2014 | |
13 | 7[3] | 9 September 2015 | 21 October 2015 | |
14 | 8[3] | 21 September 2016 | 17 November 2016 | |
15 | 8[3] | 6 September 2017 | 25 October 2017 | |
16 | 6[3] | 19 September 2018 | 24 October 2018 | |
17 | 6[3] | 4 September 2019 | 9 October 2019 | |
18 | 5[3] | 6 January 2021 | 3 February 2021 | |
19 | 7[3] | 1 September 2021 | 13 October 2021 | |
20 | 7[3] | 31 August 2022 | 12 October 2022 | |
21 | TBC[3] | 27 September 2023 | TBA |
Spin-offs
Grand Designs Indoors (2001)
No. | Title | Location | Original air date | |
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1 | "The Former Electricity Sub-Station" | Sunderland | 1 March 2001 | |
(Revisited: 22 October 2003) | ||||
2 | "The Barbican Flat" | London | 8 March 2001 | |
3 | "The Dilapidated Georgian House" | London | 15 March 2001 | |
(Revisited: 17 September 2002) | ||||
4 | "The Half-Timbered Cottage" | Cheltenham | 22 March 2001 | |
5 | "The Shaker Style Summer House and Thames Houseboat" | Devon & London | 29 March 2001 | |
6 | "The Regency Home" | Brighton | 5 April 2001 |
Grand Designs Abroad (2004)
No. | Title | Location | Original air date | |
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1 | "Modernist Villa" | Málaga, Spain | 8 September 2004 | |
(Revisited: 6 November 2013) | ||||
2 | "House from Straw" | Lot, France | 15 September 2004 | |
(Revisited: 1 December 2010) | ||||
3 | "Masseria Impisi: An Artists' Retreat" | Puglia, Italy | 22 September 2004 | |
(Revisited: 27 February 2008) | ||||
4 | "19th Century Manor House" | Creuse, France | 29 September 2004 | |
(Revisited: 3 May 2006) (2nd Revisit: 22 October 2014) | ||||
5 | "Church Conversion" | Ireland | 6 October 2004 | |
6 | "The Tuscan Castle" | Tuscany, Italy | 13 October 2004 | |
(Revisited: 9 May 2007) | ||||
7 | "300 Year Old Chalet" | Les Gets, France | 20 October 2004 | |
(Revisited: 10 May 2006) | ||||
8 | "Florida Villa" | Alicante, Spain | 27 October 2004 |
Grand Designs Trade Secrets (2007–08)
Series 1 (2007)
No. | Title | Location | Original air date |
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1 | "The 14th Century Castle" | Skipton, North Yorkshire | 28 February 2007 |
2 | "The Thatched Cottage" | Hampshire | 7 March 2007 |
3 | "The Eco-Barge" | Medway | 14 March 2007 |
4 | "The Bournemouth Penthouse" | Bournemouth | 21 March 2007 |
5 | "The Eco-House: Revisited" (Revisited from Series 5: Episode 11) | Carmarthen, Wales | 28 March 2007 |
6 | "The Birmingham Church" | Tipton, Birmingham | 4 April 2007 |
7 | "The Art Deco House" | Guildford | 11 April 2007 |
8 | "The Sliding Glass Roof House: Revisited" (Revisited from Series 5: Episode 2) | Peckham, London | 18 April 2007 |
9 | "The Oak-Framed House: Revisited" (Revisited from Series 4: Episode 7) | Argyll, Scotland | 25 April 2007 |
10 | "The Cambridgeshire Eco Home" | Cambridgeshire Fens | 2 May 2007 |
11 | "The Tuscan Castle: Revisited" (Revisited from Grand Designs Abroad) | Tuscany, Italy | 9 May 2007 |
12 | "The Glass & Timber House" | Dulwich, London | 16 May 2007 |
Series 2 (2008)
No. | Title | Location | Original air date | |
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1 | "The Underground House" | Cheltenham | 16 January 2008 | |
2 | "The Decagon House" | Oxford | 23 January 2008 | |
3 | "The Modernist Sugar Cube" | Bristol | 30 January 2008 | |
4 | "The Gothic House" | Hereford | 6 February 2008 | |
5 | "The Lime Kiln House" | Midlothian | 13 February 2008 | |
6 | "The Bath Kit House" | Bath | 20 February 2008 | |
7 | "Masseria Impisi: An Artists' Retreat" | Puglia, Italy | 27 February 2008 | |
8 | "The Wooden Box" | Peterborough | 5 March 2008 | |
9 | "Customised German Kit House" | Surrey | 12 March 2008 | |
10 | "The Victorian Threshing Barn" | Surrey | 19 March 2008 | |
11 | "The Underground House" | Cumbria | 26 March 2008 | |
12 | "The Hi Tech Bungalow" | Maidstone | 2 April 2008 | |
Architect Richard Paxton |
Kevin's Grand Design (2011)
No. | Title | Location | Original air date |
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1 | "Kevin's Grand Design: The Great British Property Scandal" (Part 1) | Swindon | 8 December 2011 |
2 | "Kevin's Grand Design: The Great British Property Scandal Part 2" (Part 2) | Swindon | 15 December 2011 |
Grand Designs Living in... (2015)
No. | Title | Original air date |
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1 | "...the City" | 9 July 2015 |
2 | "...the Wild" | 16 July 2015 |
3 | "...Suburbia" | 23 July 2015 |
4 | "...the Country" | 30 July 2015 |
Kevin's Grandest Design (2019)
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | "Kevin's Grandest Design" | 28 August 2019 | |
Kevin McCloud revisits his favourite projects from the past twenty years.[4] |
Grand Designs: The Streets (2019–23)
McCloud[5] follows ten households constructing their own homes, on a plot of ex-Ministry of Defence land,[6] as part of creating a new street in a self-build project, Graven Hill near Bicester in Oxfordshire.[7] Aired in the first half of 2019 on Channel 4. Two more series have been commissioned.[8]
Series 1 (2019)
No. | Title | Original air date |
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1 | "Terry & Olwen and Lynn" | 4 April 2019 |
2 | "Jack & Hannah and James & Shannon" | 11 April 2019 |
3 | "Paul & Blanka" | 18 April 2019 |
4 | "Chris & Roxie and Peter & Anita" | 25 April 2019 |
5 | "Sean & Dianna and Garrie & Sue" | 2 May 2019 |
6 | "Pauline & Godfrey" | 9 May 2019 |
Series 2 (2022)
No. | Title | Original air date |
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1 | "Carlos & Maite" | 13 April 2022 |
2 | "Vineet & Simmi and Prabhjot & Shalini" | 20 April 2022 |
3 | "John & Julia" | 27 April 2022 |
4 | "Joanna & Ben" | 4 May 2022 |
5 | "Leah & Craig and Jitinder" | 11 May 2022 |
Series 3 (2023)
No. | Title | Original air date |
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1 | "Nicola & Gareth and Matt & Maryellen" | 16 May 2023 |
2 | "Tim and Jitinder" | 23 May 2023 |
3 | "Jane & Richard" | 30 May 2023 |
4 | "Tom & Lori" | 6 June 2023 |
5 | "Jonathan" | 13 June 2023 |
6 | "Karen and William" | 23 June 2023 |
7 | "TBC" | TBC |
International versions
- Grand Designs Australia premiered on 21 October 2010 in Australia on The LifeStyle Channel.[9]
- Grand Designs New Zealand
- hosted by Chris Moller for its first six seasons, premiered on 4 October 2015 in New Zealand on TV3. The first season consisted of 8 x 60 minutes episodes.[10][11] The second season premiered on 25 September 2016 and also consisted of 8 x 60 minutes episodes.[12] A third season of eight episodes aired in 2017.[13]
DVDs
The original Grand Designs series has been released on DVD in the United Kingdom, however the DVD series numbers do not match the television series as some houses are excluded, and the DVDs do not include "revisited" episodes, where there is only a few minutes of new footage. Instead, the new footage from these episodes is included as an extra on the older DVDs.
DVD Series | Number of disks | Release date |
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Grand Designs: The Complete Series 1 | two-disc set | 2 September 2009 |
Grand Designs: The Complete Series 2 | two-disc set | 30 September 2009 |
Grand Designs: The Complete Series 3 | two-disc set | 5 November 2009 |
Grand Designs: Series 4 | two-disc set | 19 March 2009 |
Grand Designs: Series 5 | five-disc set | 6 August 2009 |
Grand Designs: Series 6 | two-disc set | 1 April 2010 |
Grand Designs: Series 7 | two-disc set | 7 August 2010 |
Grand Designs: Series 8 | two-disc set | 5 September 2011 |
Grand Designs: Series 9 | two-disc set | 15 October 2012 |
Grand Designs: Series 10 | two-disc set | 30 September 2013 |
The Australian release of the original Grand Designs series differs from the UK releases, in that they do not include any "revisited" footage at all.
DVD Series | Number of disks | Release date |
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Grand Designs Australia: Series 1[16] | three-disc set | 4 August 2011 |
Exhibition
Grand Designs Live takes place biannually, in London in the spring and in Birmingham in the autumn. The exhibitions display contemporary design and technology for the home and garden, with stands for suppliers and manufacturers to promote their goods and services. Design and media personalities McCloud, George Clarke and Jo Hamilton are show ambassadors.
The nine-day Grand Designs Live 2008 event, held at London's ExCeL, attracted over 100,000 visitors. To accompany the event Channel 4 broadcast two live daily programmes directly from the show, Grand Designs Live: Today and Grand Designs Live.
Grand Designs Live launched in Australia in Sydney on 21–23 October 2011.[17] It launched in Melbourne on 21–23 September 2012 and returned to Sydney on 5–7 October 2012.[needs update][18]
Awards and nominations
The programme has been nominated a number of times in the BAFTA Features category and won in 2015.[19]
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Results | Ref. |
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2000 | BAFTA TV Awards | Features | Daisy Goodwin, John Silver | Nominated | [19] |
2004 | John Silver, Daisy Goodwin, Kevin McCloud | Nominated | [19] | ||
2008 | BAFTA TV Craft Awards | Director – Factual | Livia Russell | Nominated | [19] |
2013 | BAFTA TV Awards | Features | Production Team | Nominated | [20] |
2014 | Kevin McCloud, Fiona Caldwell, Rob Gill, John Lonsdale | Nominated | [21] | ||
2015 | Production Team | Won | [22] |
Pop culture references
Irish singer Orla Gartland referenced the show in her song "Heavy" with the lyric "I just wanna hang with you and watch Grand Designs".
In The IT Crowd episode Bad Boys, Moss shoplifts several copies of the same Grand Design DVD from a mall store.
References
- ^ Sarah Lonsdale. "Kevin McCloud: Most Grand Designs are too big and too bright". The Telegraph. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Grand Designs – Episode Guide – All 4". www.channel4.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Grand Designs UK". Fremantle. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "Kevin's Grandest Design". Grand Designs. Archived from the original on 3 September 2019.
- ^ "Kevin McCloud picks his Grand Designs: The Street highlights".
- ^ Kelly, Guy (4 April 2019). "What happened when 10 Grand Designs were built on one street". telegraph.co.uk.
- ^
- "Grand Designs: The Street". Graven Hill. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- Davies, Aneira (1 May 2019). "Inside the Grand Designs' flat-pack home built from plywood boxes". standard.co.uk.
- "U-Build Box House: As seen on Grand Designs". U-Build.
- "Grand Designs The Street episode 2: The Details". Grand Designs Magazine. 1 April 2019.
- "Episode 2 | Grand Designs: The Street". Graven Hill.
- "Tonight's Grand Designs stars Bicester family making the move". Oxford Mail.
- "Meet the ten self-build stars of TV's Grand Designs". Bicester Advertiser.
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- ^ Lifestylechannel.com.au Archived 2 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Grand Designs New Zealand". Architecture Now. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Grand Designs NZ". Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Grand Designs New Zealand: Complete Episode List". thetvdb.com. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Grand Designs New Zealand - All 4". www.channel4.com.
- ^
- ^ "Grand Designs Suomi".
- ^ "Grand Designs Australia Now on DVD! – Lifestyle Channel". Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Grand Designs Australia Live Sydney 2011". Archived from the original on 18 October 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
- ^ "Grand Designs Australia Live is Coming to Melbourne". Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- ^ a b c d "BAFTA Awards Search". BAFTA.
- ^ "Bafta TV awards 2013: List of winners". BBC. 12 May 2013.
- ^ "Bafta TV awards 2014: Winners in full". BBC. 18 May 2014.
- ^ Hannah Furness (10 May 2015). "BBC's star shows are eclipsed at the Bafta Television awards 2015". The Daily Telegraph.
External links
- Grand Designs on Channel 4
- Grand Designs Abroad on Channel 4
- Grand Designs: House of the Year on Channel 4
- Grand Designs: The Streets on Channel 4
- Grand Designs at IMDb
- Grand Designs Indoors at IMDb
- Grand Designs Abroad at IMDb
- Grand Designs: Trade Secrets at IMDb
- Grand Designs: House of the Year at IMDb
- Grand Designs: The Streets at IMDb
- Grand Designs Live
- Grand Designs Magazine
- Grand Designs Australia Official Website
- Grand Designs New Zealand Official Website
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