Who made a series of television programmes from River Cottage?
River Cottage River Cottage River Cottage is a brand used for a number of ventures by television chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. These include a long-running Channel 4 television series, cookery courses, events, restaurants and products such as beer and yogurt. The first TV series was "Escape to River Cottage" and was shown on Channel 4. In this show Fearnley-Whittingstall left London to pursue an ambition of self-sufficiency, growing his own vegetables and raising his own animals at a gamekeeper's cottage near Netherbury in Dorset. The series had six episodes and first aired in March and April 1999. It was followed by "Return to
River Cottage River Cottage" in 2000. and "River Cottage Forever" in 2002, in which viewers followed Fearnley-Whittingstall's further adventures as a downsized smallholder. In 2004 the River Cottage brand left the original holiday home to follow Fearnley-Whittingstall's progress as he set up a new business from old dairy buildings near Broadoak, Bridport, Dorset in the series "Beyond River Cottage". An additional series, "The View from River Cottage", was a combination clip show and retrospective of the previous series. The 2005 series, "River Cottage Road Trip", follows Fearnley-Whittingstall as he explores Dumfriesshire, Cumbria and Lozells and East Handsworth, Birmingham for regional recipes that