SuperScrimpers will offer viewers top advice on saving the pennies

SuperScrimpers: Waste Not Want Not

Channel 4 Features has commissioned a brand new series SuperScrimpers: Waste Not Want Not, fronted by the FT's columnist Mrs Moneypenny and Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor-in-Chief of Moneyweek.

Each week, Mrs Moneypenny will spend time with a different family, delving into their finances and taking a look at how much they have to spend and what they spend it on.   Her aim - to help them stop their money-wasting ways and give them some easy-to-follow advice on how they can improve their finances and stick to a budget 

Meanwhile, financial expert Merryn Somerset Webb is the High Street Hijacker, a human calculator who will drop financial "truth bombs". She'll be taking to the high street and challenging the general public with questions about their personal finance:    How much is in their bank account? How much do they spend on lattes and take-aways every week?

Made by Remarkable Television, the programme will also be packed with  entertaining and practical tips from Britain's thriftiest people, some of whom can remember when times were hard in days gone by. These superscrimpers will embrace the wartime spirit and show us their clever and sometimes funny ways of saving money.

Commissioning Editor, Kate Boyd said; At last a programme about personal finance that won't  preach and that will entertain.  No dry grey suits here - instead a whirlwind of  advice from financial guru Mrs Moneypenny and Merryn Somerset Webb, imaginative saving tips from Britain's biggest scrimpers and a campaign to ensure you never go overdrawn again!

Colette Foster, Managing Director for Remarkable Television, said: "The team here at Remarkable Television thrive on creating candid, thought-provoking factual entertainment programming. This latest format smashes the final taboo- money. No financial blushes will be spared as we examine the amount of cash the British public literally throw away. There has never been a better time to make this series.

Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not (w/t) is produced by Remarkable Television, an Endemol company and will be executive produced by Catherine Welton and Colette Foster. The Series Editor is Anya Francis.