Celebrating the grandest and greenest of house designs. Plus: who will get the gongs at The National Television Awards? Here’s what to watch this evening
9pm, Channel 4Sorry to make you feel ancient but Kevin McCloud’s self-building property series first aired a quarter of a century ago. Within that time, what started as an aspirational show of marvel now feels like a kick in the teeth during a housing crisis. Still, McCloud marks the anniversary by starting the newest series with a look at some of the most ambitious, green and emotionally draining designs. Hollie Richardson
Kevin McCloud looks back on 25 years of dream homebuilding
Most of which time he has spent catastrophising, especially about peoples’ budgets and contingency budgets, but even more especially about whether the custom glazing would fit in the holes. It’s always the fucking windows.
The Chattington-Hepsworth’s budget is only £856,200 and the Argentinian quadruple-glazed one of a kind photon-friendly volcanically baked silica panes are being held at Greenlandic customs for two days longer than expected, pushing the bilingual homeschooling couple perilously close to £857,000 in expenditure and risking an extension of Charles’ five year sabbatical and a postponement of Harriet’s gallery grand opening.
