Chinea is best known for his work on Make it at Market and The Repair Shop

UKTV has greenlit a new factual series following craftsman and metalwork expert Dominic Chinea as his moves his personal and professional life to the far west of Cornwall.

Dom Chinea’s Cornish Workshop – in production now – will be delivered as a 5 x 60’ run, produced by Beagle Media for U&Yesterday, that sees self-taught engineer Chinea and his wife Maria set up in an old, rundown farmhouse, with land and a large barn to be converted into a workshop.

The executive producer for Beagle Media is Jonney Steven; Mike Cunlliffe is series producer.

The series was commissioned for UKTV by Kirsty Hanson, senior commissioning editor, factual and factual entertainment, with Helen Nightingale, head of factual and factual entertainment commissioning. It was ordered for U&Yesterday by director of programming, factual & factual entertainment, Adam Collings and director of commissioning, Hilary Rosen.

Chinea said: “I’m so excited by the projects we’ve got going on. But on top of the engineering, I’ve also got to get my Cornish workshop built and weatherproof before the autumn storms hit. There’s a lot of pressure!”

Series producer Cunliffe added: “Dom has moved to Cornwall with a huge desire to do what he does best: building, creating and finding interesting engineering to work on. And through all this he becomes part of the local community. He’s living the Cornish dream and we’re there to document it.”