The Repair Shop | |
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Genre | Factual |
Directed by | Ben Borland |
Creative director | Katy Thorogood |
Starring | Jay Blades Will Kirk Steve Fletcher Dominic Chinea Suzie Fletcher Sonnaz Nooranvary Amanda Middleditch Kirsten Ramsay Lucia Scalisi Tim Weeks Julie Tatchell Brenton West |
Narrated by | Bill Paterson (Series 1, 5–present) Robert Pugh (Series 2–4) |
Theme music composer | Ian Livingstone |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 13 (as of 10 April 2024) |
No. of episodes | 304 (as of 15 May 2024) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Carla-Maria Lawson Emma Walsh Hannah Lamb |
Producers | Helen Page Tanveer Bari Siân Bantock Alex Raw |
Production location | Weald and Downland Living Museum [1] |
Cinematography | Neil Kent |
Editors | Hal Watmough Shelley Hamilton-Smith Tracey Ashcroft Clare Childs Ant Hayes |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 30 minutes (Series 1) 45 minutes (Series 2-5, 7, 9, 11, 13 & 14) 60 minutes (Series 6, 8, 10, 12, 13 & 14) |
Production company | Ricochet |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two BBC One |
Release | 27 March 2017 – present |
Related | |
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The Repair Shop is a British daytime and primetime television show made by production company Ricochet that aired on BBC Two for series 1 to 3 and on BBC One for series 4 onwards, in which family heirlooms are restored for their owners by numerous experts with a broad range of specialisms. Furniture restorer Jay Blades acts as the foreman.
Each episode follows professional craftspeople from around the country who restore family heirlooms that have sentimental value for their owners. [2] Heirlooms are found mostly through social media, and their owners are not charged for the restorations. [3]
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 15 | 27 March 2017 | 16 December 2017 | |
2 | 15 | 12 March 2018 | 30 March 2018 | |
3 | 15 | 13 August 2018 | 19 September 2018 | |
4 | 30 | 1 April 2019 | 10 May 2019 | |
5 | 40 | 18 November 2019 | 2 October 2020 | |
6 | 14 | 7 October 2020 | 10 March 2021 | |
7 | 40 | 15 March 2021 | 26 November 2021 | |
8 | 14 | 21 April 2021 | 26 January 2022 | |
9 | 40 | 29 December 2021 1 | 18 November 2022 2 | |
10 | 14 | 11 May 2022 2 | 5 October 2022 2 | |
11 | 40 | 2 January 2023 | 20 October 2023 3 | |
12 | 14 | 22 March 2023 3 | 10 January 2024 3 | |
13 | 40 | 10 April 2024 [4] | TBR in 2024 or 2025 | |
14 | 14, 15 or 16 | TBR in 2024 | TBR in 2024 or 2025 |
^Note 1 : An episode billed as "Series 9, Episode 1" aired as a one-off on 29 December 2021. However, Series 9 did not officially start until 14 March 2022 with a different Episode 1, and the previously aired episode is scheduled to repeat in this run as Episodes 6 or 20.
^Note 2 : Series 10 officially started 11 May 2022 half way through Series 9 and had ended 5 October 2022 before 20 more episodes were commissioned for Series 9.
^Note 3 : Series 12 officially started 22 March 2023 half way through Series 11 despite 20 more episodes were commissioned. However "Series 11, Episodes 21 to 30" aired from 21 August to 1 September 2023 before commissioning 10 more episodes running between 9 and 20 October 2023, then "Series 12, Episodes 9 to 11" aired on 13, 20 and 27 September 2023 before commissioning 3 more episodes and Series 12 does not officially end until 10 January 2024.
Several Christmas-themed special episodes (with the exception of The Repair Shop at Christmas 2018) have been produced, and since the 2020s have been transmitted on Christmas Eve occurring every two years and on Boxing Day occurring every two years. The earliest transmission date on record was five days before Christmas Eve 2017 and the latest transmission date on record was three days after Boxing Day 2019.
Year | Transmission date |
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2017 | 19 December 2017 |
2018 | Cancelled due to unfinished filming |
2019 | 29 December 2019 |
2020 | 26 December 2020 |
2021 | 24 December 2021 |
2022 | 26 December 2022 |
2023 | 24 December 2023 |
In 2022, the show's presenters were featured with French and Saunders and Judi Dench in a parody of the series for Comic Relief. [5]
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Episode 5 of series 1 featured a painted ceramic jug made by Picasso contemporary Jean Lurçat. [6] [7]
Episode 12 of series 1 featured a painting by British landscape artist Frederick Appleyard. Brought in by Appleyard's descendant —his great-grand-nephew— the heavily damaged painting was restored by Lucia Scalisi. [8]
In episode 16 of the same series, she restored an oil portrait by Cyril James Frost, at the request of its owner, the sitter's son. [9]
In series 4, episode 22, a miniature by Sarah Biffen was restored, by Scalisi and paper conservator Louise Drover. [10]
In October 2022, King Charles III (still the Prince of Wales at the time of filming) starred in an episode in which a piece of pottery made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and an 18th-century clock were restored by the show's experts. [11] Jay Blades, Steve Fletcher, his son Fred, Kirsten Ramsay and Will Kirk were featured. [12] [13]
The Repair Shop is filmed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in Singleton, West Sussex. The Court Barn is the principal setting, though some repairs are carried out in the Victorian smithy and nearby wagon shed. [1]
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DVD releases of the series are released by Dazzler Media under license from Warner Bros.
On 25 June 2018, a DVD release of The Complete Series 1 and 2017 Christmas Special was released on a two-disc DVD set. A DVD release of Series Two was released on 7 October 2019. A DVD of Series 3 was released in March 2020, Series 4 was released as a two-disc set in March 2021, and Series 5 was released as a two-disc set in November 2021.
On 25 July 2019, a do-it-yourself hardback book was released, entitled The Repair Shop: A Make Do and Mend Handbook, published by BBC Books. [45]
The Repair Shop: Tales from the Workshop of Dreams was published by BBC Books on 5 November 2020. [46]
In 2019, The Repair Shop received a nomination for a Rose d'Or in the Reality and Factual Entertainment category. [47] After moving to prime time for Series 6 in March 2020, it was watched by 6.7 million people. [48]
In 2023, the show won a National Television Award in the daytime programme category. [49]
An Australian version of the show, The Repair Shop Australia, debuted on Lifestyle on 3 May 2022. It is hosted by Dean Ipaviz, a builder and carpenter, and features six repairers. [50]
A Dutch version of the show, The Repair Shop, debuted on RTL 4 on September 2, 2019. [51] [52] [53] It was hosted by Humberto Tan, a radio and TV presenter, sports journalist, and writer, and lasted one season. [54]
A Dutch version of the show in Belgium, De Repair Shop, debuted on Eén on September 4, 2022. It is hosted by Danira Boukhriss Terkessidis, a newscaster and TV Presenter, and it is currently on its second season. [55]
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