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Revision as of 11:03, 28 October 2013
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Host
Voiceover/Finale host: Tim Wonnacott
Co-hosts
Experts: David Barby, Anita Manning, David Harper, James Lewis, Philip Serrell, Charles Hanson, James Braxton, Mark Stacey
Broadcast
STV for BBC Two, 8 March 2010 to 9 November 2012 (140 episodes in 5 series)
STV for BBC One, 7 January 2013 to present
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip: STV for BBC Two, 24 October 2011 to 23 November 2012 (30 episodes in 2 series)
Synopsis
Daytime (well, technically: "daytime" on BBC Two officially runs up to 7pm, so the 6.30pm slot counts) antiques show stripped across the week. Each week two of the Bargain Hunt/Flog It experts travel around a given region and attempt to "trade up" (which is poncy talk for buying, selling and reinvesting the proceeds). There is a weekly winner, and then all eight return at the end of the series for a final auction to decide the overall champion, except in series two, when the overall winner is simply whoever made the most money during their week.
David Barby and Anita ManningUnlike Bargain Hunt (but like its non-game stablemate Flog It), the show does take the auction house's commission into account, a fact which ultimately makes less difference than you might expect since in general the pieces either win big or lose big, though it does lead to running totals with awkward numbers of odd pence on the end.
David Barby, laughing all the way to the (piggy)bank.
This variation is used when the experts (here, Philip Serrell) make a loss.All in all, it's a typical daytime antiques buying-and-selling show, nothing terribly out of the ordinary (our mum reckons it's "changed a bit since the last series", which just goes to show how dissimilar to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Antiques it isn't) but if you like that sort of thing, you'll probably like this. It's certainly less dogged by staged and stilted conversations than most shows of its type (indeed, the free-flowing discussion between the contestants surely has to be the show's biggest selling point), and the money rollover adds a bit of excitement. Just a little bit.
Fancy meeting you here! Mark Stacey and James BraxtonChampions
2010: David Harper
2011: James Lewis
Lewis actually topped the leaderboard in both series, but in series 1, Harper pipped him in the final auction.
Key moments
In one episode, David Harper paid £100 for what he thought was a Royal Crown Derby 1128 Pattern bowl worth £400, but upon seeing it, his opponent James Lewis immediately identified it as a likely fake. David sent it to Royal Crown Derby, who tested it, declared that it was indeed fake, and impounded it. Luckily David was able to get his money back from the dealer (who, let's face it, could hardly refuse, what with being on telly and all). But that wasn't the end of the drama - when they arrived at the auction, they found out that two of the other items (a Langley pottery frog bought by Lewis and a mid-19th century charger plate purchased by Harper) had been broken because the lowly serf of the production company whose job it was to pack them up for transit hadn't done a very good job. The Bargain Hunt broken items protocol was applied, with both dealers being given the auctioneer's top estimate for the items - which amounted to two rather handsome profits, boosted by the fact that they didn't have to pay commission.
Mark Stacey's talent for getting dealers to give him items for free. Derren Brown would be proud.
Theme music
Lawrence Oakley
Trivia
This was STV's first series commission for the BBC. There is a clue to the show's Caledonian origin in the fact that the experts usually pay for their purchases using Scottish banknotes.
From the second series up until the fifth series, the show aired in an earlier slot at 5.15, and some experts-visit-historic-buildings inserts allowed its running time to extend from half an hour to 45 minutes. Interesting though these often are, the best bits of the show are still the interactions between the contestants, which now seem a bit swamped by all the extra(neous) material.
At the start of 2013, BBC2's afternoon schedule was moved to BBC1, with Antiques Road Trip in the 4.30 slot just before Pointless. A bit of a contrast from the children's programmes it replaced.
Pictures
This map shows the route for one week's editions.
David Harper, James Lewis and friendWeb links
Official site (Regular version)
Official site (Celebrity version)
