Sandi Toksvig to host doll's house design show

Sandi Toksvig is to front a new TV show in which competitors vie to renovate a house they best they can. But it’s a doll’s house.

The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge will air on  More 4 and aimed at so-called miniacs, people who create all things miniature.

Challenges range from crafting a Regency inspired dining room, complete with a dinner service, to designing an art deco bathroom, fitted with a a fully plumbed bath.

Judging the series are interior design guru Laura Jackson and world-record holding miniature sculptor Willard Wigan MBE.  

Toksvig said: ‘I couldn’t be more thrilled to be hosting The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge. Finally a TV show in my size.  I can’t wait to marvel in miniature.’

During the eight-part series she will also visit real stately homes across Britain, to look at their opulent interior design – as well as being digitally shrunk to walk around the miniature rooms contestants create.

Clemency Green, Channel 4’s commissioning editor, said: ‘I am hugely excited about this tiny show; big ideas and mighty ambition encapsulated in miniature perfection. It’s a magical world and I’m utterly thrilled that Sandi, Laura and Willard are going to be part of it.’

The show is being made by Welsh-based production house Yeti.

Published: 3 Sep 2021