Channel 4 has commissioned Strawberry Blond TV to produce a 4 x 60' series of The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden for More4.
Hugh Dennis said: "The Great British Dig is a fantastic format which combines finding out about the history of where you live and the surprising things that lie under your own back garden. It's kind of a community archaeology project."
A pilot episode of The Great British Dig aired on More4 in April 2020, becoming the channel's most successful one-off programme in 2020.
In The Great British Dig, actor and comedian Hugh Dennis is joined by an expert team of archaeologists to excavate back gardens around Britain, in an attempt to uncover the lost history buried beneath our lawns and flower beds – recruiting local people to get digging too.
The series sees the team visit Newcastle in search of a Roman fort, as well attempting to unearth the long-lost Lenton Priory in Nottingham. In North Yorkshire, they must dig deep in the hope of locating a Viking graveyard, and they're also on the hunt for a secret army base in South Shields.
The experts joining Hugh Dennis on The Great British Dig are Dr Chloe Duckworth, archaeological scientist and lecturer at Newcastle University, archaeologist Richard Taylor and field archaeologist Natasha Billson.
