A documentary, detailing an East Lancashire businessman’s battle to set up a community bank, is coming to Netflix today (March 24).

The original Bank of Dave series, which first aired on Channel 4 back in 2012, has been remastered for the streaming platform with some never-before-seen footage.

The series shows how David Fishwick, from Sabden near Burnley, and his right hand man David Henshaw took on the financial institutions of London and fought to receive the first, new banking licence to be issued in Britain in more than 100 years.

It will give fans of the Netflix movie adaptation, which was released in January, a glimpse of the real businessman, his community bank Burnley Savings & Loans Ltd and the truestory behind the movie.

David said he can’t wait for the show to reach a wider audience.

He said: “Once Netflix started looking into the Channel 4 show they just loved it.

“I said I really wanted it on the platform because there are millions of people in Britain who have Netflix.

“The show highlights Lancashire in a lovely way and people around the world will be able to see this.”

Dave said the show has been tastefully remastered with some scenes original viewers might not have seen before.

He said: “Netflix has done a wonderful job. They’ve take the adverts out and we have put some new bits in.

“It’s not massively different but there are parts in in that nobody has seen before. It’s just nice to see it [back on the screen] again.”

The bank in question, Burnley Savings and Loans Ltd, still operates in Burnley’s Keirby Walk.

The series won the 2012 Royal Television Society award for best nations/regions programme, and the 2013 BAFTA Scotland Award for best features and factual entertainment programme. It was also nominated for a BAFTA and broadcast award.

Dave said several East Lancashire towns make an appearance in the series, including Burnley, Sabden, Colne, Pendle and Nelson.

With news about the the collapse of banks across the world, including Silicon Valley Bank in America and Credit Suisse in Switzerland, now is an important time for the topic of community banks to surface, according to Dave.

He said: “A massive banking crash is what got me to open Bank of Dave in the first place.

"Years on we have another banking crash just as the Channel 4 show is set to be remastered and relaunched on Netflix.

“We have the same problems as we had 10 years ago and there still hasn’t been another high street bank that’s opened in this time.

“I am very keen to get the government to come up with a way of community banking. With our profile I think we can show officials that there is a way forward.”