Phil and Kirstie make viewers 'Love It or List It' (w/t)

10 November 2014

Channel 4’s favourite on screen husband and wife are back and they’re set to help couples who’ve fallen out of love… with their house. In a brand new features commission for Channel 4, from Raise the Roof Productions, ‘Love it or List it’ (W/T) 6x60’, will see the king and queen of property help those who are well and truly fed up with their home. However they have very different ideas on how to go about it. Kirstie thinks they need to learn to ‘love it’ while Phil thinks they should sell up shop and ‘list it’…

 

Each episode will see Phil and Kirstie meet couples whose house no longer fits their requirements; it may be that they feel they’ve outgrown it, that the space doesn’t work or that they’re bored with out-dated décor and craving a change. After listening to their issues and embarking on a fact finding mission to see how the family use their house the super competitive duo will go about convincing their property charges that their way is the right way.

 

Phil thinks that the buoying property market means that moving house and listing it for sale is the only solution, whereas Kirstie thinks that there is a huge amount of wasted money in moving and that if you invested the cash that you’d spend in doing so, you could have a fresh and exciting start without having to pack a single box.

 

Armed with a budget that will equal what it would cost the family to move Kirstie will set about transforming their current house, with the help of an expert property developing team. Meanwhile Phil will be playing devil’s advocate and using his expertise as a surveyor to see what they could get for their money in their dream area… But, whose powers of persuasion will win out and will it be Team Phil or Team Kirstie who saves the day?

 

Based on and adapted from a Canadian format by Big Coat Productions and distributed by Beyond Distribution Love it or List it was commissioned by Channel 4 Head of Features, Gill Wilson for TX in 2015. Of the commission she says, “We are delighted to have Kirstie and Phil collaborating again, and intrigued to see who will come out on top in this battle of location wills.’

 

 

Production Information:

Executive Producer: Andrew Jackson    

Production Company: Raise the Roof Productions

Commissioning Editor, Features: Gill Wilson