Antiques Road Trip

Revision as of 22:47, 19 March 2010

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-

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.

Unlike 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.

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, and the money rollover adds a bit of excitement. Just a little bit.

Trivia

This was STV's first series commission for the BBC.

Music

Lawrence Oakley

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