Showpeople: Licensed to Thrill
2025
📺 1 Season
🎬 6 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
Go behind the rides, peer through the candy floss and uncover the secret world of showpeople, the men and women bringing all the fun of the fair.
Seasons
Season 1
What is a showperson? Run away with the fair and join the family firms who bring the shows to towns and villages across the country. Meet three generations of the Taylor family as they set up in Grangemouth, and find out from finance guru Sarah Sheeran exactly what is involved in buying rides costingt half a million pounds. And meet father-and-son duo Trevor and Kristan Smith as they battle wet weather and family squabbles in Airdrie.
Cast
Crew
Director
Drew Ferguson
Producer
Drew Ferguson
Network
BBC Scotland
Production
Tern TV