Returning: Grand Designs

Season 20 of Grand Designs begins on ABC this Sunday night as Kevin McCloud meets a couple builing an eye-popping curved glass family home in the south Manchester suburb where they grew up.

Colin and Adele are adventurous types, not afraid to explore the more hair-raising corners of the planet. Through his film production company, Colin has even filmed in North Korea with dictator Kim Jong-un. However, his next production will involve his biggest challenge yet – building an eye-popping curved glass family home in the south Manchester suburb where the couple grew up.

Colin and Adele have followed their globetrotting instincts by engaging a Swedish architect, an Italian interior design company, and a Latvian building company. But will this multinational team click together, or will their plans get lost in translation?

Right from the start their £700k construction budget comes under stress when Colin refuses to compromise and goes with an expensive engineering change to make the house look like it’s floating. However, it gets a lot worse a few months in, when there is a manpower issue with the contractors Colin paid up front to build the entire structure.

7:30pm Sunday on ABC.