Give It a Year - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Little Big Things / Glowstone
In this episode, Karren meets a young woman from Essex whose lack of confidence has led her to seek advice for her fledgling wedding business from beyond the grave and the inventor who thinks that he has cracked a very British problem: how to keep your tea warm.
Hidden Valley / St Aymes
In this episode, Karren meets a former Royal Marine who has overcome PTSD to start a woodland adventure business, but can it grow over the year? She also meets a pair of sisters who think that they have developed the perfect treat with their edible art chocolate. The cost of each bite makes it a high-end luxury, so can they get on the shelves of the likes of Harrods and Selfridges with no experience at all? Only time will tell.
Shooting Starts / Welsh School of Motoring
Karren meets a former Manchester United trainee who quit to become a solicitor – only to find he didn't like it, so he quit that too. Karren discovers if his new venture is the answer to his problems, or is it three strikes and he's out? Plus, she meets a man who was crushed by his redundancy but thinks he might have found the answer behind the wheel of a car.
Busy Bins/Claude & Co
Just Bee, Mermaids UK, Barntopia
In this episode, Karren meets a pair of young men who got tired of advising other businesspeople and decided to start their own. She will also meet the mother and daughter duo who can teach people to be a mermaid and the executive couple escaping the rat race for a life in the country.
Episode 6
Karren meets a woman who overcame breast cancer and wants to open a hairdressing salon and spa, and an injured sportsman with an innovative tennis teaching method.
Episode 7
Karren Brady meets a young married couple who are worried that the pressure of working together in their new cycling business may be too much to bear, and a Geordie herbalist who's hoping to revolutionise the milkshake market.
Episode 8
Karren meets a young man whose hard start in life hasn't held him back from looking to create a brand new high street chain – of tattoo parlours. Plus, she meets the couple who hope they've raised pampering pooches to a new level with their face masks and spa treatments and their latest dreams for doggy day care.
Episode 9
Karren Brady meets a man who finds a new lease of life after he finds a way to indulge his passion for cooking, but will he be able to make a living from it? She also meets a man who manages street markets who believes he's onto a winner with his new app - but will there be a market for it?
Episode 10
Karren Brady meets a pair of young men whose idea is to take funerals stratospheric as they plan to send the ashes of deceased people into space. She also meets the couple who've moved to Britain to start a new Indian pickle business, and a man who gave up a job in conservation to make salami.
Episode 11
Karren Brady meets a young man who thinks he's found the answer to drinks getting spilt with an invention he's trying to sell from the back bedroom of his flat, and a couple who are gambling it all on an anti-nausea kit for pregnant mums-to-be.
Episode 12
Karren Brady meets the working mum who's starting a new shoe business, as well as preparing for a new baby, a young man who's hoping his electric skateboard means he can stop living at his mum's house, and a man who confesses his new fashion label may well be a mid-life crisis.
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