Nowhere else will you see people so excited to make £10... (Bargain Hunt)

Member Name: laukez

Product:	Bargain Hunt
Date:	27/10/09 (25 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Watchable daytime junk

Disadvantages: Very repetitive

Bargain Hunt has been a staple part of my daytime telly diet since I first started university, and I still wathc it now. Bargain Hunt airs every weekday at 12.15 on BBC1. Presented by Tim Wonacott, the show features two teams, red and blue and an appointed experts. The experts are the familiar faces who seem to do the round of BBC antiques shows. The teams are given one hour and £300 to find three 'antiques' to sell at auction later in the show. The show also features a section where a country house of some sort usually is visited by Tim and its antiques are nosed at.

The best things about the show are the host in Tim Wonacott. He really is a true English eccentric, with crazy outfits and mad glasses. His catchphrases (which he uses unfailingly) like leftover lolly are pretty rubbish. The guests often look a bit frightned of him but the charm of this show lies in how rubbish it is really!

Because basically, the profits are crap and the people on it are generally boring. But it is worth watching because it is so naff that there is entertainment value. There are not many shows on TV where a £10 prize is considered worth having but you wopuld seriously think some people had won the lottery they get so excited to win this show. The majority of the time they lose money, but this show is the prime example of the saying it's not the winning that counts, it's the taking part.

The show has run for many years now, and while I doubt very many people class it as unmissable TV it is better than the dross on ITV at the same time (Loose Women, I mean you!). While very repetitive (disengage your brain before watching) Bargain Hunt simply is what it is - low budget, low rent telly which is eminently watchable but never unmissable! A daytime staple, because it is exactly what daytime telly should be.

Summary: Daytime telly as it should be