A family who struggled to transform a derelict Tuscan farmhouse into a successful holiday business have been given a new television series.

Richard Turnbull and his wife Sarah Fraser swapped life in Wharfedale last year to create an idyllic Tuscan hideaway.

The family's struggle to turn their 350 olive trees and two rundown farmhouses into a profit featured on Channel Four's No Going Back Series in January.

Now the producers want them to star in a six-episode programme called 'Tuscan Living' after their initial television appearance left 4.5million viewers begging for more.

Viewers were left wondering if the family would get their holiday cottages finished in time for Easter, if the unreliable builders would ever finish their indoor shower and toilet and how the family would cope with the olive harvest now Sarah is expecting her second child.

The Wharfedale Observer can reveal that the Otley family were able to open their holiday business in time for their first bookings in Easter and that the Italian builders, with help from generous Wharfedale builders who went out to help them, did manage to complete their indoor toilet.

A year ago the couple bought an 18th century Tuscan farmhouse called Casa del Sole, with 15 acres of land, hundreds of olive trees and their own private waterfall.

With only £5,000 for repairs they struggled to meet the builders' quotation of £30,000 to transform two farmhouses into holiday cottages.

They had estimated that they would only need a yearly income of £12,000, which they would raise through selling olives and olive oil and renting out the farmhouses as holiday homes.

The programme tracked their lives until January and now six half-hour episodes of a docu-soap will be shown to see how they progressed.

The series is due to be shown in June and will focus on the experiences of Richard, Sarah and their three-year-old son, Gregory.

Sarah is currently writing a book about the family's experiences and they feature in a new website called www.tastethesun.com.

"We have got a few projects on the go - but you only get this sort of opportunity once," she said. "Everything else is fine over here."

Their rented-out cottages opened in time and all their first holidaymakers have been from Ilkley and Otley.

Anyone interested in viewing their Tuscan retreat can log on to their website at www.casadelsole.co.uk.