wow...hgtv version sucks!
bbc version is so much better...looks like america has ruined another british export
shareI have to agree. I didn't even know the show was English until just recently when I got BBC America and started watching it. The English host Alistair Appleton is too cute as is Paul Hayes, plus they both have those lovely English accents that I love so much . The valuer on the American version smiles way too much and it looks phony after a while.
"I thought I'd met all your friend." - Dr. Cuddy, House, M.D.
I saw it for the first time the other day on On-Demand. I think it was the American version. At the auction, they were practically giving away the auctioned items. Everything was sold below estimate (some below retail of a newer item), yet somehow they made their goal (it was the episode that they needed $2300 to put in a new downstairs shower).
I like the concept, but thought it was the opposite of "Antiques Roadshow" (instead of finding treasures, they had rare items that went for next-to-nothing).
How is the British version different?
I finally saw the British version a couple of days ago (the guy who sold his bokks because he needed 2000 pounds (WTF!) to buy a laptop).
Basically the same show. Both were cheesy, but the US version might have been a little moreso.
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I hate the American version. Benie babies and happy meal toys...WTF?
Britian definatly has cooler antiques, not to mention a better host.
I'm 50% Irish, the other half is French. I like to get drunk and surrender.
You're simply not as likely to find antiques and collectibles in as many houses in America as in the UK. The US is a much more mobile society, where, on average, people move every five years or less to another home--often in a far distant part of the country. This makes it difficult to maintain a meaningful collection of anything--unless you're very wealthy. As a result, US homes are mostly full of "silly" collectibles, such as promotional based items for movies and fast food drive thrus. Tis a pity, because there are some very interesting American antiques to explore, which never get a glance in the British version of CITA. Wheeling and Mt. Washington Peachblow, Roseville, Fenton, Tiffany, they almost never find their way into British homes. OTOH, British ceramics, furniture, and glass are well represented in American antique shops. (Clarice Cliff is also beginning to generate groans of tiresomenss, here, too.) Thus, it's probably best for all to just settle on BBC's CITA and forget whatever HGTV is trying to slop up.
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hey raragona, what are you saying WTF to?
shareI assume that comment was directed at me, and I was saying "WTF" to HGTV for trying to pass off Happy meal toys and Bennie babies as serious antiques.
I'm 50% Irish, the other half is French. I like to get drunk and surrender.
What's the name of the show ???? And yes I know the post is old as dust.
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