Antiques Road Trip

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Antiques Road Trip
Also known asCelebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011–)
Narrated by Tim Wonnacott
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series27 (regular series)
12 (celebrity series)
No. of episodes650 (regular series)
230 (celebrity series)
Production
Running time30 minutes (2010)
45 minutes (2011–)
Production company STV Studios
Original release
Network BBC Two (2010–2012)
BBC One (2013–)
Release8 March 2010 (2010-03-08) 
present
Related
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Antiques Road Trip (also known as Celebrity Antiques Road Trip) is a BBC television series produced by STV Studios. It was first shown on BBC Two from 2010 to 2012, and has been shown on BBC One since 2013. This show is not to be confused with Antiques Roadshow .

Contents

Format

Regular

In the programme two antiques experts compete against each other. They get a budget of £200 with which to buy antiques and collectibles, that are then sold at auction. After each auction, the amount in each expert's kitty after costs are deducted becomes their budget for the next leg. The winner is the expert who makes the greater profit over five legs, with whatever money is left in the kitty at the end being donated to the charity Children in Need.

From 2023 the budget system was changed, with each expert having a week's budget of £1,500 to cover five legs, to be spent at the discretion of each expert across the week. There is no reinvestment of profits back into the budget, or deduction of losses. At the end of each leg, the winner is the expert with the highest profit (or smallest loss) at auction; and at the end of the week, the overall winner is the expert who has won the highest number of legs. The net profits at the end of each week are donated to the charity Children in Need.

Each leg is a single programme, normally broadcast stripped from Monday to Friday. The experts travel to their different destinations in a classic car, which changes each week.

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

A celebrity version Celebrity Antiques Road Trip has been airing since 2011, in which each expert is paired up with a celebrity and each programme is a self-contained contest held over a single leg.

Production

The series began as an ultimately unbroadcast pilot in August 2009. This original preliminary version saw the two experts – David Harper and Kate Bliss – each driving a classic car, and free to roam where they chose within a "work-day" time limit (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) to buy up antiques with their £200 budget, with the goal of making the most profit when entered into auction two days later. They were encouraged to spend the entirety of their £200, even if it meant using any leftover on small antique trinkets, with potential penalty for not spending enough by deducting a percentage from profits. In this version, the experts only interacted at the outset of the episode and at the final auction, and the episode was 'self contained' - i.e. it wasn't part of a week-long trip. Potential was seen in the format for a series, but several tweaks were made. It was decided to have the two experts travel around together in the same car, allowing for interaction between the pair, and to make the 'road trip' span five days, and with a more designated overall route. The goal of spending the entire budget or being penalised, was also dropped. In the original pilot, each expert could nominate any proceeds to be donated to a charity of their choice; in the actual series Children in Need became the solo umbrella charity for any proceeds.

Filming of each episode of the series does generally take place within a single day, although the actual length of a day may be simulated, i.e. it may actually be filmed over several days, but within the timespan that a single day would allow. Although many episodes of the week-long trips are indeed filmed on subsequent days, occasionally there may be a day's gap filming between some episodes, to allow the experts time to tend to their own auction businesses. The two included segments per episode where each expert will visit a local point of historical interest, are filmed a few days later, with the celebrities wearing the same clothes as in the rest of the episode so as not to break continuity.

Records

The records for the largest profit on a single item, the highest sale price for a single item, and the largest total profit on one road trip is held by Paul Laidlaw, who in one of the 2017 series (Series 15, Episode 5) bought a Chambre Automatique De Bertsch sub-miniature camera for £60 and sold it at auction for £20,000 (a 33,233% profit). [1] [2] The previous records for highest sale price for a single item and largest profit on a road trip was held by Anita Manning, who in 2016 purchased a Buddha statue for £50, which sold for £3,800 (a 7,500% profit). [3]

The record for the largest profit margin on a single item is 33,650%. It was set by Charlie Ross when in the 2012 series, he bought a chipped Staffordshire elephant clock for £8 which sold for £2,700. [4] This was also the largest profit made on a single item until Manning broke that record in 2016.

Transmissions

Regular series

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
18 March 20103 April 201020
23 January 201111 February 201130
312 September 201121 October 201130
413 February 201223 March 201230
51 October 20129 November 201230
67 January 201315 February 201330
74 November 201324 January 201430
824 February 201413 June 201430
922 September 201417 October 201420
105 January 201530 January 201520
117 September 20159 October 201525
124 January 20165 February 201625
135 September 201630 September 201620
142 January 201727 January 201720
1525 September 201720 October 201720
162 January 201826 January 201820
173 September 20185 October 201825
187 January 20198 February 201925
192 September 20194 October 201925
206 January 20207 February 202025
219 November 202018 December 202025
2210 May 202111 June 202125
236 September 20218 October 202125
243 January 20224 February 202225
2512 September 202214 October 202225
2613 February 202317 March 202325
2713 November 202315 December 202325

Celebrity series

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
124 October 20117 November 201110
23 September 201223 November 201220
34 November 20132 December 201320
45 September 20147 October 201420
517 November 201528 January 201620
614 November 201614 December 201620
713 November 201718 December 201720
85 November 201823 September 201920
97 October 201928 February 202020
109 November 202116 December 202120
1123 October 202229 December 202220
1210 October 202330 January 202420

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References

  1. O'Connor, Rory (25 September 2017). "Antiques Road Trip star SHOCKED after making record-breaking 20K on THIS rare item". Daily Express . London.
  2. "Paul Laidlaw's rare sub-miniature camera smashes Antiques Road Trip records, selling for £20,000". Antiques Road Trip. Season 15. Episode 5. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  3. "Anita's whopping 7500% profit!". Antiques Road Trip. Season 13. Episode 4.
  4. "Charlie's Staffordshire elephant fetches thousands". Antiques Road Trip. Season 4. Episode 26. Retrieved 2018-08-04.