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'Alex Polizzi - The Fixer' - BBC Two www.bbc.co.uk In a brand new series for BBC Two, 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. From siblings struggling to find common ground to mothers incapable of handing over the reins, Alex must take on the toughest family trials and get them back into the black. As a third generation hotelier of the internationally-renowned Forte family, Alex worked with her mother in the family firm whilst also managing a successful, multi-million pound bakery with her husband. More than most she's aware of the challenges that running a family business brings and understands exactly whats at stake when a family firm starts to struggle. Each week, she'll invest her time, knowledge and expertise in a different family-run firm, identifying their most pressing business shortcomings and forcing them to work as a team to get their house in order. Over six weeks, she'll confront a pair of brothers working at their parents' MOT garage in Manchester; a Northamptonshire bridal-wear shop run by a squabbling mother and daughters team; a family furniture store stick in the past in Leeds; a bakery shop in Padstow run by a domineering mother and her warring children; a part-teashop, part-windmill in Norfolk; and a fancy dress shop in Essex. A proven talent when it comes to turning businesses around, can Alex use her personal ... From: BBC Views: 2626 43 ratings Time: 00:31 More in Entertainment