Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country

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Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country
Genre Documentary
Directed byJonathan Profaska
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes23+1 Christmas special
Production
Executive producerGuy Gilbert
ProducerJonathan Profaska
Running time48 minutes
Original release
Network Channel 4
Release11 November 2020 (2020-11-11) 
17 April 2023 (2023-04-17)

Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country is a British television series, first shown in 2020, which showed property developer Sarah Beeny and her family's move to Somerset from London, including building their dream home and adapting to country life. [1]

Contents

A second series began in November 2021, showing the fitting out and decoration of the interior of their new home, and improvements such as hedge restoration and tree planting to the surrounding land.

A third series began in April 2023.

Premise

Sarah Beeny and her husband, artist Graham Swift decided to sell up their London home as well as their stately home wedding business, Rise Hall [2] and move to a former 220 acre farm [3] near Bruton. [4] The farm had permission to build a new house, but Beeny and Swift wanted to build a mini stately home in a different field that planning permission had been granted for. [5]

Controversy

The first series had several controversies, such as Beeny keeping a wild rabbit that their cat had caught as a pet. [6] [7] There was also public uproar that the programme was out of touch during the COVID-19 pandemic. [8] The property was given planning permission even though there was local opposition to the development. [9]

Episodes

Series 1 (2020)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Directed byOriginal air dateU.K. viewers
(millions) [10]
11Jonathan Profaska11 November 2020 (2020-11-11)2.053
22Jonathan Profaska18 November 2020 (2020-11-18)1.812
33Jonathan Profaska25 November 2020 (2020-11-25)1.933
44Jonathan Profaska2 December 2020 (2020-12-02)1.764
55Jonathan Profaska9 December 2020 (2020-12-09)1.835
66Jonathan Profaska16 December 2020 (2020-12-16)1.758
77Jonathan Profaska22 December 2020 (2020-12-22)2.120
88Jonathan Profaska29 December 2020 (2020-12-29)N/A

Series 2 (2021-2022)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Directed byOriginal air dateU.K. viewers
(millions) [10]
91Jonathan Profaska30 November 2021 (2021-11-30) [11] N/A
102Jonathan Profaska7 December 2021 (2021-12-07) [11] N/A
113Jonathan Profaska14 December 2021 (2021-12-14) [11] N/A
12Christmas–SpecialJonathan Profaska21 December 2021 (2021-12-21) [11] N/A
134Jonathan Profaska28 December 2021 (2021-12-28) [11] N/A
145Jonathan Profaska4 January 2022 (2022-01-04) [11] N/A
156Jonathan Profaska11 January 2022 (2022-01-11) [11] N/A
167Jonathan Profaska18 January 2022 (2022-01-18) [11] N/A
178Jonathan Profaska25 January 2022 (2022-01-25) [11] N/A

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