BARGAIN HUNT

'''Bargain Hunt''' is a daytime television programme on BBC One, which started in the year 2000.

Contents

Format

History

The Experts

External links

Format

Two teams (the Reds and the Blues), both made up of two people, are given £300 (originally £200) each. With each accompanied by an antiques trade expert, the two teams each buy three lots of items from bric-a-brac sales and attempt to make their money back (or more) by auctioning them off. The participants keep any profit they make, and since 2004 "golden gavel" trophies are awarded to any team which makes a profit on all three of their items.

History

Originally a daytime show when launched in 2000, it became staple viewing of students and gave host David Dickinson cult status.
A prime-time version was also made (2002-2005), which is similar to the daytime show except that which the teams' budget is increased to £500. It was on the prime time version of the show that a team led by Michael Hogben purchased a Royal Worcester box at Ardingly fair for £140, that made £800 in the live prime time auction - the largest profit ever made on ''"Bargain Hunt."''
When host David Dickinson gave up the daytime show to concentrate on the primetime version, his place was taken by Tim Wonnacott, an antiques expert already well-known to UK viewers as a long-standing expert on ''The Antiques Roadshow''.
In April 2005 it was announced that the primetime version of ''Bargain Hunt'' had been axed; however the daytime version is to continue. Reruns of the daytime version (from the Dickinson era) also appear on BBC America.
The show occasionally features well known contestants, for example 'Allo 'Allo! stars Gorden Kaye and Sue Hodge have taken part.
The show also appears on the Australian Nine Network at 5:00pm weekdays.

The Experts

★ David Barby, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Fine Arts Division - Auctioneer before starting own valuation business. See external links below.

★ Kate Bliss (née Alcock) - consultant for Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

★ James Braxton - owns Edgar Horns Auctioneers in Eastbourne and is executive director of Bracketts Fine Art Auctioneers in Royal Tunbridge Wells

★ Pippa Deeley - sometimes credited as Philippa Deeley.

★ Charles Hanson - former Christies expert who runs his own auction house in Derbyshire

★ Paul Hayes - operates as a trade dealer, travelling around the country buying items from the public and selling them to his contacts within the antiques trade. He also has a stall at the Sunday market at Charnock Richards near Preston

★ Anita Manning - in 1989 she established Great Western Auctions in Glasgow and became Scotland’s first woman auctioneer

★ Adam Partridge - principal auctioneer and valuer at Marshalls Auctioneers of Knutsford, Cheshire were he has worked since 1999

★ Thomas Plant - work at Phillips in Bath, and is now an independent valuer and auctioneer at a sale room in Kent

★ Philip Serrell - owns Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

★ Nigel Smith - trained as a restorer of fine European and oriental ceramics, before starting work as a porter and cataloguer in Manchester, and then moved to Sotheby's as a trainee auctioneer, and then to Phillip's auctioneers in Bath. He now works at Tennant's in Harrogate

★ Mark Stacey - senior valuer with Dreweatt Neate Fine Art Auctioneers in Godalming, Surrey

★ Elizabeth Talbot - in 1995 she married and moved to East Anglia to take up the position of Senior Auctioneer and Valuer at the Diss Auction Rooms of Thos Wm Gaze & Son. She was made the firm's first female partner in 2000

★ Colin Young - a qualified chartered arts and antiques surveyor, he joined the Grantham firm, Golding Young in 1989 and has been principal since 1994
'Past Experts'

★ Dean Goodwin (2000)

★ Michael Hogben - his profile removal from the BBC antiques website coincided with him featuring in the ITV programme Dickinson's Real Deal

★ Kevin Jackson (2000-5)

★ Toby Moy (2000)

★ Sally Stratton (2001-2)

★ Louise Weir (2000)

External links

★ ''Bargain Hunt'' website from the BBC

★ UK Gameshows Page: ''Bargain Hunt''
David Barby FRICS - No longer manager at Locke and England, he has his own valuation business, D J Barby & Associates. David also has his own website, http://www.david-barby.net.