Homes under the Hammer has to end!!!

It would be useful if the program would revisit projects that have been featured from around 2008.

If they could avoid distorting the success or failure numbers it would be useful to those who wish to boast about these wretched portfolios but at least have not entered blind and so have a chance to to get involved wisely.

The presenter LUCY is always banging on about seeing legal packs, seeing the porperties first. I find this is rich having watch a program where she and her husband bough a
 
So is there any evidence at all that there has been any such distortion regarding the success or failure or do you just have a bee in your bonnet (or have had your fingers burnt)?

Where was that then? Any sources or links?

But maybe it didn't? Any links please?
 
I know! It's as if they are making up their lines as they go along just like you would if you where being interviewed by someone for a cheap fly on the wall reality show! They really need to start using a different talent agency to supply the actors! Its getting as bad as the bit parts on The Bill!
 
If the OP can't stand the two amiable regular presenters on Homes Under the Hammer, I dread to think what s/he would make of the motley crew of assorted actors, TV chefs, 'comedians' silly show-oRAB and media 'rent - a- Zeleb' types that are wheeled out to present 'To Buy or Not to Buy.'
 
Mind you the costume lady is amazing - where does she find all those 80's outfits for Martin to wear? :) Mind you as I've posted before I have a big crush on the lovely Martin. I'd tend to his broken wrist any time..... :o (Must be my age...)
 
Sorry, as far as daytime tv is concerned Homes Under The Hamer is a shining beacon of quality, a veritable Operatic Masterpiece in a sea of manufactured pop, Shakespeare to Jackie Collins, when compared to the likes of Cash in The Attic, or Car Booty (or whatever it's called) or the now dire, tired and well passed it's sell by date Bargain Hunt. Or any other 'let's make a tv programme out of flogging other peoples tat'

For pities sake the BBC has even resorted to sending people to far flung corners of Europe to IMPORT tat, and sorry whoever scripts these programmes has the worst case of corn on the planet, I frankly get sick of the presenter pontificating whether any model ships/boats will 'sail off into the sunset' or if a ciggarette box will be 'smokin' on some winRABwept trestle table at a car boot sale in Birmingham.

OK in an ideal world NONE of these programmes would need to be made/shown 15 times before the tape wears out, but at least with Home Under the Hammer there is the merest hint of stimulation as to what the mug who bought a pile of bricks in a worn torn estate in any major city will do to try to eek out some sort of return for his/her 'investment' Or gain a sense of hatred towarRAB someone who has just added another row of house to their property portfolio with an estimated income of six squillion quid a year in rent, and not a little envy that they have done that and you can't be a***d OR you have been convinced for the last ten years the property market is going to collapse totally in the next ten minutes (this from the man who has just signed up to use some of his wages every month to buy his employers shares the week before the footsie start to go into freefall, don't talk to me about tipping)

AND another thing if I see one more set of Nat West Pigs and hear the entire c**p story about 'Uncle Maxwell' or whetever I will shoot someone.
Sorry for me keep the property programmes and dump flogging tat between jumble sales in all it's forms.
 
Great post, Halmet77 :D

I have to agree with you too. Homes Under The Hammer is a well-produced little show, with good pacing and no pretensions.

In fact, I often record it to watch when I've finished work :o
 
Lucy Alexander is a top 5 daytime tv milf and she was a genuine fox about a decade ago when she used to be on Nickelodeon.



Fantastic post, although the scorn for Bargain Hunt is unwarranted.
 
Yeah, they should stick to Sarah and Kris- goodness knows it's hard enough putting up with Kris - and drop the rent-a-media-Zelebs who have nothing to do with property.
 
I love this show and when they tell you that there's a downstairs loo and then they take you outside to the one in a shed..I find that so funny
 
And having had a few days off last week I had the misfortune to catch the latest daytime offering of Gene Detectives, RAB how the h**l can they spread that programme out to forty five minutes, grab the Usual Suspects and do a series of DNA test, job done, tearful reunion and all done in time for a news bulletin. BUT with an expert, that sorry I would never dare leave in charge of a rusty bike, never mind tracing my lineage, roots or family history And the constant repeating of 'Jean has never met her third cousin, Alfred since they were tragically torn apart after a family feud involving a wincyette romper suit, a box of After Eight and thirty year old egg whisk, some 50 years ago, and now our Gene Detective's.... yadda yadda yadda, etc etc etc'.

Get this garbage off my screen now.......
 
I'm sure they featured some a few weeks back that were bought at the end of summer last year and never made money so were just going to be rented out and not sold .Or was it another property program ??I dunno I watch that many *blush*
 
It happens fairly regularly [yes, I am an avid viewer!] that the property developers base their decision on whether to sell or let on current market conditions, and a lot of the properties featured in the late 2008 shows were bought specifically to let out because of the current climate. They've also mentioned on several occasions that the properties they've viewed look like repossessions.
 
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