Spark developed and created Escape to the Chateau back in 2015. From humble beginnings as a 4-part commission for More4 it went on to become a massive hit for Channel 4 in the UK and around the world. Series 1-8 of Escape to the Chateau were produced by Spark and its wholly-owned subsidiary Kindling Media as we followed Dick Strawbridge and his fiancee Angel Adoree as they uprooted their young family from the UK and moved to France. Dick & Angel left their 2-bedroom flat in Southend for a 45-room chateau in Northern France with 12 acres of land, 9 out-buildings, a walled garden and a moat – and all for the cost of the average house in the UK, less than £300,000. No-one had lived there for over 40 years. It had no electricity, no water and the sewage ran into the moat.