The Repair Shop BBC1

[scorcher]

Mr Google has the answer!

[bewva]

I watched a few of these on catch up last night.
I like some of the restoration type programs but this one is only watchable with the remote in hand to fast forward the sob stories of how someones great great great grandfather used it in the war etc.
The restorations can be interesting but its not a patch on American Restoration IMHO.

[Highlander]

Tough crowd on this thread   

[hornedfrog]

My favourite of these type programmes is Wheeler Dealers when Edd China was involved.

Mike Brewer "does the deal" and poor Edd ended up doing all the work, but at the end, there's no mention at all of the labour fees that would have been payable for Edd's repair work. We watch Mike tot up all the costs of purchases on the screen but old muggins Edd doesn't get a mention (although the latter programmes did start to mention the number of hours of labour) and at the end, Mike celebrates a £300 profit which if adding in Edd's labour costs, would likely be a £2,000 loss.

Love Edd...Mike, not so much.

[bewva]

I've watched them all Hornedfrog some a few times over. Funny how Ed China just happens to have a machine to check this or that which no normal garage would have. They then made the program suitable for the American market by pricing the repairs in dollars. Not a great fan of Mike Brewer but Ed was great.

[KKOB]

The homepage to Edd's own website is worth reading. It gives an insight into how Wheeler Dealers was made. As he says, it's not just him and Mike that make the programmes. They've got a huge team behind them.

https://www.greasejunkie.com/

[Scunner]

My personal hate is Dickinson's Real Deal

He seems vaguely ok but surely with the entire UK antiques industry to select from, they could come up with some "experts" with a tiny piece of personality. They are all so dull, but try to be memorable with poor, overscripted one liners, stupid ponytails and mad hair - and the worst narrator ever, trying to be the bloke from Come Dine With Me and falling a million miles short.

Other than that I quite like it.

[KKOB]

Stephen Fry called it the ‘best show on TV’ and Kathy Burke can’t hold back the tears. Jay Blades and his team of fixers on becoming the comfort TV smash of 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/26/the-repair-shop-we-can-fix-anything-but-a-broken-heart-and-brexit

[chris35]

Being an engineer by trade, I absolutely love this programme. Have to admit though as soon as those 2 women with the sewing needles start restoring a 500 year old teddy who is basically a piece of straw, I lose the will to live. It has to be a real restoration that makes something electrical or mechanical work again after being left in a loft for many years.  

[Highlander]

Totally agree re the bears chris35