Secret Dealers ...errrrrr

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adie.

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What an unfortunate name for a tv program :eek::eek: And its another one of those cheap antique/tat shows. Just a rip off of of those awful ones on BBC1 ... it even features the same "experts" :yawn:
 
It's a load of dire old rubbish. Those 'experts' must be on a circuit. One of the dealers from Dickenson's Real Deal sold an overpriced item from her stall to a couple competing in Bargain Hunt last week. (It lost a substantial amount of money).
 
For me, Secret Dealers scrapes the bottom of a very old and very valueless antique barrel.

The idea appears to be round up a group of dealers from Dickinson's Real Deal and an ex-expert from Bargain Hunt, send them into to a well-heeled, not-publicity-shy/aka show-off member/s of the public's houses, watch the dealers pretending it's the first they've seen the items they've probably seen and researched in some detail before filming, then contain yourself from spontaneously combusting from the devastating excitement of seeing the dealers writing bids on Secret Dealers compliment slips.

The ultimate climax happens near the end of the show with the not-short-of-a-bob-or twenty home owner/s looks at the bids, pompously refusing the lousy ones and keenly accepting the better ones. Then, er...well, that's it.

Antiques and the antiques format are being well and truly Flog-Ited to death. Bargain Hunt was and still is a reasonably entertaining format - despite the horrendous losses most of the competitors make week on week and Dickinson's Real Deal is mildly watchable, however contrived it probably all is, but this terrible show contains none of the better elements of the former, only the bad points of those two and many others of their ilk. I'll give it one series before it
 
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