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Hey Reg, Happy to clarify. It's not really an interiors show - it's about amazing and unusual homes, so focus for the most part is really on the building itself (exteriors, structural design and location), although with a boat that's more challenging unless it's wildly unusual (a repurposed oil rig lifeboat or something of that nature), so we probably would want it to have nice interiors as there's only so much footage you can shoot of the outside. There's no presenter, it's not really a "lifestyle" show in the way that term is usually used, more just a profile of cool properties. Just to add as well, there's a few people suggesting we want to find 'canal people' to make them look like oddballs. That isn't remotely the case, we're really after people with warm personalities, youngish couple would be ideal but open to all possibilities at this stage. Have a great evening, Tom

Hi all, Thanks for all the responses thus far (even the snarky ones haha)! No, I appreciate that people get media fatigue, a lot of people move to the canals and rivers for a bit of tranquility and don't want TV producers sniffing around their mooring. I get that. Just to clear up a couple of misconceptions that I've seen though: 1. The show is about homes in general, all of the other case studies are on dry land, we're not making a show "encouraging" people to sell up and buy a canalboat (in fact the couple who appeared in our Netflix doc had been living on their boat for some time, we just filmed them renovating it to make it more homely). 2. I'm aware that quality doesn't come cheaply. I wasn't suggesting that we'd find something "luxurious" on a shoe-string budget, I just wanted to emphasise that we're not only looking for something ridiculously high-end. Again, the phrase I used was "impressive, luxurious or visually striking". Could be an unusual-looking boat, or one with a really historic past, or a no-expenses spared vessel fit for a king. Love the idea of a reality doc about a marina - Nat Geo actually made a series in the US a couple of years back called 'The Yard' about shipyards and marine salvage in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Oh, and happy to film a doc with me renovating a boat, as long as someone can lend me the money ? Anyone interested in participating or knows someone else who might be, would love to hear from you. Thanks, Tom

Hey all, I hope you don't mind me posting here - it seemed directly relevant to the thread! I’m a producer with Barcroft Productions, a London-based production company. We produce a wide variety of factual full length documentaries for networks including the BBC, Netflix and Discovery. We’re currently making a homes series for a very well-known online platform and we’d love to include a person/couple who live on a residential boat in the UK. The only thing that makes it tricky is that it needs to be: 1. Ideally a boat that is still being worked on but that will be finished in August (although one that has just been finished might also work), and 2. The boat itself probably needs to be quite impressive, luxurious or visually striking on the inside for it to work for the series. Is anyone in the midst of a major build or refit that might fit the bill? Or know anyone else who is? We’re on quite a tight turnaround time so I’m open to suggestions, any help at all would be massively appreciated! Just to stress, it doesn’t necessarily need to be a lavishly expensive boat. We recently made a show for Netflix called Amazing Interiors that featured a young couple who lived on the Thames who had saved up to do a DIY refurb on their boat but used a lot of salvaged materials to cut costs, the main thing is that the end product looks really nice. Link here if you want to check it out, it’s the main story in episode one: https://www.netflix.com/title/80184067 If you're interested, you can contact me at thomas@barcroftmedia.com Thanks! Tom