The Bidding Room

This has everything that is truly awful about daytime television. Dealer's with no charisma. Participants you have no empathy with. It's like a cheap, cheap, cheap version of Flogit. Don't bother to tune in, you will be bored to death.

With a cast of dubious Del boys and a host who delights in behaving in an unharacteristicly camp manner this has to be one of the poorest programmes of the genre.

I don't like sticking the boot in but I agree with other reviewers - the programme format is so weak it's hard to understand why the BBC commissioned it. The seller - a member of the public - comes in with a piece of old tat, has a quick chat with Nigel Havers and then one of the bidders buys it. That is it. No emotion, no great competition, no likeable characters (Nigel excepted). Most of the items are dull and low value - it probably costs more to get them to the studio than the bidders end up paying. The programme format needs rethinking. Maybe if we could see what the successful bidder does with the item and what profit they go on to make, it might be more involving. That is probably beyond the budget of the show though so probably best to scrap it. Come to think of it, bring back Ceefax it was more engaging.

Not a bad idea but copied from Four Rooms and done on the cheap. The whole thing is charm free zone poor old Nigel Havers has sunk to this. The expert with his 'insider knowledge ' is clueless I dont know where they got him from but you might as well ask any man/ woman on the street who watched Bargain Hunt twice a year

He doesnt even know the dates for Victorian and Edwardian stuff he is usually way way out in his valuations. The dealers arent a whole better they can only cope with the tatty show them anything good like a classy painting and they are out of their depth., What is it for? Take it away please!

Why WHY do all these programmes throw in repeats in a new series. So fed up of the programme makers doing this. It's the same with all such as Antique Roadshow, Repair Shop, etc etc etc. It totally spoils it for the viewer If you can't make the appropriate number for a series then you are failing. Stop throwing in a repeat.

It's bad enough at the beginning to have highlights of what's coming up, this spoils the excitement. But series made by this company does it. There is no need to do this to get us interested. I end up recording these type of shows so I can wiz through spoilers.

It's about time we have something new without these spoilers and repeats.