Starting Up Starting Over

Katrina is giving up life as a successful lawyer in London to open a restaurant in the beautiful countryside of the Lake District. She falls in love with local Italian chef Gwill and they decide to convert an old build into a Pizzeria with their flat above. After complications, they get it open and the real test starts, as they discover what it is like to run a restaurant together.

Jade and Alice are turning their backs on successful careers in London to relocate to the stunning Scottish Highlands. They are putting their life savings into restoring a 200 year old rundown hotel and starting new lives running their own boutique country inn. The couple race against time to renovate and redecorate the 6-room inn in time for the tourist season and busy summer period.

Looking for challenges and fulfilment, 43-year-old Cara decides to follow a childhood dream and live off the land with her own small farm with 50 animals, a shop and a vegetable business. With no savings left or cash reserves, no experience of animals, noone else to help her, and facing a bitter cold winter, Cara has to learn many skills fast if she and the animals are going to survive.

Hani and Sarah are leaving their comfortable lives in South West London. They and their 2 young children move 100 miles to the Malvern Hills. They are putting all their life savings into building their own Brewery to produce and sell their own beer - with no previous experience in the industry between them.

Elvis fans Julie and Trevor are giving up their successful businesses to follow their dream of a quieter life to run a Haberdashers shop together in a beautiful village in the Cotswolds. They are investing all their savings and even raiding their pension fund to buy the new house and shop with its stock. Neither has run a shop before and discover it is not as quiet or easy as they thought.

Gary and Neil are lifelong motorcycle lovers and adrenaline junkies. Friends for over 30 years, they hatch a plan for new lives where they can indulge their love of bikes. Together they try to build Europe's first indoor motocross arena by Neil's hometown of Glasgow. It proves stressful, painful, expensive, and uses every penny they have.