Returnable 60’ 4K / HD Factual Entertainment / D.I.Y
There’s D.I.Y and then there’s Extreme D.I.Y.
This is a series that celebrates the bold and the insane as people with a ‘can do’ attitude set about a restoration or build project that sits well outside the comfort zone for the ‘Average Joe’. We’re talking extreme projects that are taken on by individuals, with only the money they have in the bank and their own particular set of skills (and any friends they can rope in to help them) to help them.
Each episode is closed ended and follows the build / restoration of a UK based project from the earliest phase all the way through to completion and beyond. We look at the reasons for a project, be they personal or historical and the designs forwhat they hope will be the finished article. These aren’t projects for projects sake, these are all passion builds that wouldhave taken place if the camera’s weren’t rolling and they will all aim to have a positive impact on life, be it theirs or otherpeoples. Whilst we’re open to include house restoration in the list of builds it would have to be something highly unusualinorder to make it through.
Examples of previous Extreme D.I.Y projects that we would like to have been able to cover include:
109-year old English sailing yacht. Tally Ho.
The 47 foot boat was bought for £1 and stripped back to the beams and rebuilt by one British boat builder, Leo Goolden. The boat is not yet completely rebuilt but has amassed 195k subscribers on Youtube.
The Apocalypse Bunker
Colin Furze, an inventor from Lancashire, decided he needed a place to build his latest gadgets but living in a Semi detached house didn’t leave him with space. So rather than build away from his house, he dug up his garden and buried his ‘shed’ in there. The result was truly outstanding and would like be able to survive a nuclear blast and from the outside you wouldn’t even know it was there.
The ‘Hubble’ Telescope
Mike Clements has taken a lifelong passion and turned it into a record-setting astronomical achievement. The long-haul trucker single-handedly built a 70-inch telescope, the largest one on record to be crafted by an amateur astronomer, enabling users to see constellations previously visible only through the $2.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
