To The Manor Bowen

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Runtime: 60 minutes

Episode Overview

It’s all change for the Llewelyn-Bowen family. After almost 20 years of ‘London Living’ Laurence has a problem. His wife Jackie wants the two of them and their daughters Cecile (11) and Hermione (8) to up sticks and move to the country. She’s always dreamed of a huge house to entertain friends and family in, and an acre or two of land in which to create an exquisite garden. Now in her 40s, she wants Laurence to turn that dream into reality. The only trouble is Laurence is not convinced, he loves the city and they already have a perfectly lovely London town house. But Jackie wins Laurence around and goes to view her first house, a 20 roomed manor house in Gloucestershire. She falls in love with the 400 year old manor house and before you can say Lady Llewellyn Bowen, she’s put in an offer of £1.3 million – and it’s accepted. Now all she has to do is sell it to Laurence!

Series Overview

To The Manor Bowen follows Changing Rooms design guru Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie, their two idiosyncratic kids, batty old grandma and their eccentric entourage to the heart of the English countryside in their quest to buy a grand new home. Jackie is tired of the London celebrity treadmill and is on a mission to get her family and staff to move to the country in search of the simple life. Laurence, a Londoner through and through, is less enthusiastic. But undeterred Jackie finds herself a run down 17th century manor house in the West Country and buys it. Luckily Laurence loves it too, and put his reputation, finances and family’s happiness on the line by moving everyone into this rundown rural ruin while they attempt to transform it into a magnificent family home. The beautifully surprising and refreshingly unpredictable Llewelyn-Bowens open their normally tightly-bolted celebrity doors to give us a peek at their unconventional and unruly family life.