In this brand new six part series, entrepreneur Alex Polizzi turns her attention to family firms that have reached breaking point. She tackles both their financial failures and domestic dramas and tries to guide them back on to the path to success.

In this week’s episode, Alex Polizzi is called in to a faltering fancy dress shop in Essex – Props and Frocks. The business is in the doldrums and the family who own it have run out of steam. When Alex arrives she discovers one of the major problems – literally thousands and thousands of lines of stock, filling not only the shop but garages and outhouses, too.

Mum Adele is a workaholic and the whole family work seven days a week – they see the shop as an extension of their home. Adele’s own mother Joy also works in the shop and she can’t stand anyone touching any of the goods.

Alex tackles the shop with the help of retail design expert Karl McKeever, and she gets Adele to address her crazy over-ordering. She also takes the whole family to work for a day in Uniqlo in Regent Street, to get them to understand how a major retailer deals with having customers using and abusing their stock – they welcome it!

Alex’s time with the family culminates with a grand relaunching of the shop on their busiest day of the year – Halloween.

Has Alex revived the flagging business?

Tune in on Tuesday, 28^th February at 8pm on BBC Two.