Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
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Host
Stephen Taylor Woodrow (voiceover)
Co-hosts
Various antiques experts including Eric Knowles, Jonty Hearnden, Lorne Spicer, Tim Wonnacott
Broadcast
Reef Television for BBC One, 18 March 2008 to present (game show format used from 6 October 2008)
Synopsis
A show which completely changed its format from one series to the next. The general idea is that TV "experts" are shown using their expertise to invest their own money instead of other people's, and the original format was not a game show but simply a documentary series following TV property experts buying houses with their own money. However, for the second series it became yet another in the long line of Bargain Hunt wannabes, with two antiques experts competing to make a profit with up to £1000 of their own money. The experts are given certain parameters (having to buy from a certain place, or a certain type of object) but are free to purchase as few or as many items as they like, and can even do them up before selling them on. Hardly the most original format (and an hour is really too long — the repeats sensibly trim it down to 43 minutes) but some of the experts are good value.
Series 3 is a version with celebrity chefs competing, cunningly titled Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Food and employing what is essentially a less rigid version of the Recipe for Success format.
