The series begins with two families who appeared a year ago. The Gowlands were counting every penny, while millionaire property developers the Greens lived in luxury and for one week they traded home and budgets.

A look at the impact of edition featuring a couple in the south of England who were millionaire entrepreneurs and a northern family crippled by debts of £20,000. For one week, the two households from opposite ends of the wealth divide swapped homes and lives.