To The Manor Bowen — Season 1, Episode 4: Flood
Reality • 60 min • 1 season, 8 episodes
Episode synopsis
It’s four months since the Lewelyn-Bowen’s turned their back on London for a new life in the country, but instead of rural tranquillity all they’ve had is dust, noise and builder stress. Even Laurence is feeling uncharacteristically down. “I almost feel like someone has decided to pay me back for all those years of doing this to other people’s houses.” As the building work reaches its dirtiest and noisiest stage, their 20 room house seems more like a war zone than a designer pad. Tempers fray as Laurence reveals the colour for his groovy retro kitchen – guacamole. Jackie sees red (or green!) and throws a whole pot of it over the long-cuffed creative. To lift spirits, Jackie decides to throw a summer party – a joint celebration of Jackie’s, Cecile and Hermione’s birthdays. However the party is double the size of an average wedding, and for a family living out of suitcases and cooking in a shoebox it’s one hell of an undertaking. Everything is going to plan until with just one week to go, Gloucestershire is hit by the worst floods on record. Will Jackie’s mammoth party have to take a rain check?
About To The Manor Bowen
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.