Shed of the Year

In a new series George Clarke discovers what is really happening in the Great British shed and uncovers a world of glorious eccentricity when he presides over this year's Shed of the Year competition. Prepare to experience never previously seen designer sheds that are used as truly amazing spaces to live, work and play in. The sheds range from an intricate shell grotto built inside a World War Two bunker to a disco shed that plays the biggest festivals in the country. There's also a Dad's Army enthusiast who's built an entire museum full of memorabilia at the bottom of his garden and a man who's converted his shed into a 1970s amusement arcade.George travels the length and breadth of the British Isles, along with his Amazing Spaces designer team of master craftsman Will Hardie, designer Max McMurdo and architect Laura Jane Clarke, visiting the extraordinary designs of sheds entered in the competition.The first episode tackles two categories. First up is the Unique shed, including a 21 foot wide replica of a tea pot, a Titanic museum and a cinema shed with over 3,000 films. The Eco category features a garden shed with an allotment built on the roof, a shed made out of 5000 wine bottles, an egg shaped studio and a glass shed built over a pond that cost just ?250 to build. Please note this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.

In Britain there are around 16 million sheds. It is an astonishing number. Recent research has revealed that Britain is a nation of shed fanatics, with 65% of adults owning a shed and the average shed owner spending over a year of their life in their prized shelter. As the competition to find Britain's best shed continues, the designs are proving to be a mix of ingenious and eccentric, with a host of elective uses. George Clarke and his fellow judges look at the finalists in two more categories. The Summerhouse/ Cabin group throws up a replica 18th-century US frontier cabin containing a mummified yeti, a Gothic grotto decorated with 50,000 seashells, and a scaled down Elizabethan lodge.In the Workshop category, a 1930s garage, complete with classic car restorations, battles it out with a graffiti artist's shed with its own gorilla, an extraordinary bird box production line, and the smallest shed in the whole competition, a music venue with room for just one performer and one audience member. Please note this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.

As the competition to find Britain's best shed reaches its climax, George Clarke and his fellow judges look at the final groups of shortlisted sheds battling it out for a place in the grand final. George also visits last year's winner: an upside down boat shed. The Normal sheds prove anything but, with one of the smallest discos in the world up against a Dad's Army themed shed complete with air raid siren, as well as a 1970s amusement park in a shed with a 12-foot working Ferris wheel outside. The judges also cast their eyes over the most pleasurable category in the competition, the Pub Shed, before they face the near impossible task of deciding which of them most deserves the overall prize of Shed of the Year 2014. Please note this version may differ slightly from the UK TX version.