Masterpiece (game show)

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Masterpiece
Also known asMasterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh
Genre Game show
Created by Alan Titchmarsh
Presented by Alan Titchmarsh
Rachel Houston-Holland
Theme music composer Paul Farrer
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes40
Production
Running time60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production companySpun Gold TV
Original release
Network ITV
Release15 February 2016 (2016-02-15) 
16 June 2017 (2017-06-16)

Masterpiece is a game show that aired on ITV from 15 February 2016 to 16 June 2017 and is presented by Alan Titchmarsh and Rachel Houston-Holland.

Contents

Background

Filming took place at three stately homes up – Parham House in West Sussex, Kentwell Hall in Suffolk and Firle Place in East Sussex. [1] The show is presented by Alan Titchmarsh, who came up with the idea for the show, and Rachel Houston-Holland, a Knutsford-based arts expert. [2]

Format

Three pairs play the game. To decide the order of play, the teams must value an item. The team whose valuation is the closest goes first.

Valuation

The teams must pick what they believe the highest-rated item from an assortment laid out on a table to be. The team which picks the highest-valued item amongst the team wins.

The winner of Valuation picks what they believe to be the 'masterpiece', worth £10,000 or more. Values are not revealed until the end of the programme.

Stately Home

Teams are sent off around the home to look around for two items and take photographs of them on tablets; the winners are the team with the highest number of accurate photos, followed by the speed of arrival. The teams then return to the Masterpiece Gallery.

Distinctly Vintage

Four items, such as cars or dresses, are laid out and revealed one-at-a-time. The first is a benchmark item, and the team that came last in Stately Home must guess whether their item is older or newer than the benchmark item. If they guess correctly, they win a point; if they can date them to a suitable degree of accuracy – with the cars, it was the year and with the dresses it was the decade – they win another. The teams who came second and first in Stately Home repeat that process in that order and the teams' placings in this round sort the order of play for the subsequent Masterpiece Gallery round. If there is a tie, the teams involved must stick a value on the item and closest valuation wins.

Bamboozle

The team which came in last in Distinctly Vintage must pick an item for another team to identify from three options; if they guess correctly, they win a point, should they guess incorrectly - however - the team who selected them to play are awarded one for bamboozlement. The playing team then selects an item for the uninvolved team in the previous 'duel' and the process repeats itself; that team then picks an item for the first team and the process repeats. One final round of Masterpiece Gallery is played before the values are revealed; the team with the most masterpieces wins £1,000.

Transmissions

SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
115 February 201611 March 201620
215 May 201716 June 201725

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References

  1. Webb, Claire (15 February 2016). "Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh: Discover the curiosities of Parham House, Kentwell Hall and Firle Place". Radio Times . Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. Wilson, James (6 February 2016). "Art expert Rachel to appear in TV quiz show". Knutsford Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2016.