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Grand Designs

★ 8.5 4K votes 1999–present 28 seasons · 262 episodes Returning Series Channel 4
DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10Lifestyle realityUnscripted lives, homes and work observed.This show: 8/10Long-runnerA show whose sheer longevity shapes how it's watched.This show: 8/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 8/10Comfort rewatchThe kind of show people return to endlessly.This show: 7/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 7/10
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About

"Ambition, budgets and bricks in slow collision"

Grand Designs follows ordinary Britons as they try to build the extraordinary home of their dreams, usually on an impossible budget and an even more impossible timeline. Host Kevin McCloud narrates each build with wry, knowledgeable commentary, checking in as ambition collides with weather, money, planning permission and marital patience. The pleasure is procedural: watching concrete pour, steel rise, budgets balloon, and finishing dates slip by months or years. It's soothing and stressful in equal measure, part property porn, part slow-motion disaster movie, and it works because you genuinely want these people to get their strange, beautiful house.</p>

Watch it for

Kevin McCloud's dry, empathetic narration turning a construction site into genuine drama.

Maybe skip if

you find delayed timelines and budget overruns repetitive rather than compelling.

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All Seasons

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Season 11999
6.823686h 35m
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Season 22001
6.82701711h 58m
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Season 32003
7.2161128h 55m
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Season 42004
7.113585h 40m
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Season 52005
7.3167117h 18m
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Season 62006
6.913586h 24m
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Season 72007
7.3217128h 25m
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Season 82008
7.0200126h 18m
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Season 92009
7.2233137h 59m
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Season 102010
7.0364148h 39m
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Season 112011
6.8278123h 53m
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Season 122012
7.1382125h 24m
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Season 132013
7.1454117h 39m
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Season 142014
7.4387106h 9m
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Season 152015
6.37142h 21m
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Season 162015
7.131091h 32m
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Season 172016
7.231986h 15m
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Season 182017
7.3426104h 42m
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Season 192018
7.025473h 52m
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Season 202019
7.620283h 51m
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Season 212021
7.621763h 54m
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Season 222021
7.421871h 32m
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Season 232022
7.420811
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Season 242023
7.31978
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Season 252024
7.31016
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Season 262025
7.2905
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Season 272025
7.41357
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Season 28
7.76061h 36m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kevin McCloud Self - Presenter, Self
Jeremy Till Self - Architect
Robert Gaukroger Self - Homeowner
Deborah Sheridan-Taylor Self
Tom Raffield Self
Jane Davidson Self
Milla Gaukroger Self - Homeowner
Danielle Raffield Self
Rob Roy Self
Sarah Wigglesworth Self - Architect

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