UKTV Renews Guy Martin: Proper Jobs

August 13, 2025 Kloudia Sakowski

UKTV has ordered a second season of Guy Martin: Proper Jobs for U&Dave and U from North One.

“Learning a new trade, especially one I know nothing about, is right up my street,” said Martin. “The best way to understand this stuff is to chuck me in there with the people who’ve got years of experience and let me be a sponge, so I can’t wait to get stuck in.”

For the new series, Martin will learn the challenges of being a miner in Britain’s deepest working mine in North Yorkshire, put himself in the fast lane as a truck rescuer on some of Britain’s busiest motorways in the East Midlands, dives in feet first as a lifeboat crew member on the Humber, and milks it as a dairy farmer in The Hebrides.

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Produced by North One, the series is currently in production and will air early next year. The second season was commissioned by Helen Nightingale, head of factual and factual entertainment commissioning at UKTV and ordered for U&Dave by Adam Collings, director of programming for factual and factual entertainment and Hilary Rosen, director of commissioning. The executive producer for UKTV is Emile Nawagamuwa.

Executive producer for North One is Steve Gowans, and the series producers and directors are Ewan Keil and James Woodroffe. Guy Garvey will also return to provide the voice-over for all episodes.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with North One on a second series of Proper Jobs,” said Nightingale. “Guy brings a genuine curiosity and respect for the people who do these demanding jobs day in, day out; he always gets stuck in and manages to do it with a smile on his face too.”

“Working with U&Dave was a natural fit for Guy and we’re all properly delighted to be putting in another shift on more of the UK’s toughest – and most surprising—jobs,” said Gowans.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing how Guy copes with the new jobs in this series,” said Collings. “Guy’s lovable and unique personality shone throughout the first series and showed exactly why he is so popular with our viewers.”