"Help! I bought a village" on C4....anyone watching? has this programme inspired anyone?

These sort of shows are a fun watch, but even rehabbing a single historic property is a massive undertaking. The reality is that unless you have a deep and abiding passion for the property and its history and you're willing to give up all of your spare time and money and also a lot more time and money that you can't spare for the foreseeable future, it's probably not the best idea to just dive right in. If you're only a "reasonable diy-er", you're going to have to hire professionals for a lot of the necessary work, especially if the property is a really old one, and especially if it's listed or protected in any way. The latter often have restrictions on what work can be done and how it can be done, and when there's only one guy in the region who happens to know the necessary centuries-old building technique required to restore your medieval chateau to spec, well, he can charge whatever he wants for the privilege. And there will always, always, always be more work than you think. You might look at this cute old house and go "Hey, it's not so bad; it just needs a little TLC!", and then you start taking things apart and that's when you discover the washed-out foundation, the rising damp, the structural beams that start coming apart in your hands like a loaf of stale bread, the horrible bodge job some arsehole did fifty years ago that means you're going to need an entire new roof, etc.