TV shows
TV programmes about the art and antiques trade have greatly expanded in number since the 1990s. From Bargain Hunt and Flog It! to Fake or Fortune? and the long-running BBC series Antiques Roadshow, love them or loath them, their popularity is enduring.
And don’t forget the nation’s favourite dealer: Lovejoy.

New series of Britain’s Lost Masterpieces returns to BBC screens despite Covid-19 delays
26 January 2021Coronavirus restrictions delayed the filming of a new series of Britain’s Lost Masterpieces but it is to return to TV screens on February 1.

Dealer and restorer Gary Wallis launches new antiques TV programme
29 July 2020Fans of antiques TV have a new show to try.

Antiques Roadshow to become invitation-only to ensure production meets coronavirus guidelines
07 July 2020For the first time in more than four decades, the BBC series 'Antiques Roadshow' will be filmed on a closed set with a small invited audience only.
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Call for collectors, dealers and antiques centres to feature in Drew Pritchard’s next Salvage Hunters series
02 April 2020Architectural antiques dealer Drew Pritchard hosts TV show ‘Salvage Hunters’ and is set to film the next series later this year.

TV’s Charlie Ross posts online workout video for auctioneers with closed salerooms
30 March 2020In these days of self-isolation, social media is awash with home workout routines, but yesterday a new programme popped up, targeted at auctioneers.

BBC Antiques Roadshow’s summer events postponed until late July
19 March 2020The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow valuation days have been postponed in light of the UK’s government’s advice about the holding of public events.

Gray stars on US prime-time
16 March 2020Dealer Ashley Gray of Gray MCA in Bath, which specialises in original fashion illustration from post-war 1940s to present, was over the moon when he discovered an exhibition he is involved with appeared on prime-time TV in the US.

Call for owners of art and antiques to take part in new BBC programme
16 January 2020BBC One is calling for owners of art and antiques to take part in a new day-time TV show called 'The Bidding Room'.

Actor Nigel Havers to host BBC TV show on art and antiques dealers
29 November 2019BBC One is launching a new day-time TV show featuring art and antiques dealers called 'The Bidding Room'.

Victorian tiaras from Bentley & Skinner to feature in Downton Abbey film
29 August 2019Three antique tiaras from jewellery dealer Bentley & Skinner will feature in the new 'Downton Abbey' film, released in cinemas on September 13.

Viewers of BBC show Fake or Fortune? wait a year to discover Giacometti sculpture knocked over by a cat is the real thing at £500,000
22 August 2019The verification of a Giacometti sculpture once knocked over by a cat was delayed by months leaving viewers of BBC art show ‘Fake or Fortune?’ waiting a year to find out if it was worth £500,000.

Truth behind mystery Venetian view investigated by Fake or Fortune? revealed by art dealer Charles Beddington
15 August 2019A painting thought to be by well-known Venetian painters Francesco Guardi (1712-93) or Michele Marieschi (1710-43) has emerged as an English copy, worth a fraction of its supposed value.

Fake or Fortune? investigation reveals possible Giorgio de Chirico painting is “worthless”
08 August 2019A painting thought to be by Surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) has been rejected by experts after an investigation by art dealer Philip Mould, Fiona Bruce and the Fake or Fortune? team.

ATG letter: The great Gainsborough mystery
05 August 2019MADAM – The BBC’s 'Fake or Fortune?' returned to TV screens last month with a Thomas Gainsborough mystery. I watched with great interest, and a degree of trepidation.

Lost portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence discovered by dealer Philip Mould in latest episode of Fake or Fortune?
01 August 2019A lost portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) has been uncovered in the latest episode of the BBC’s ‘Fake or Fortune?’.

Fake or Fortune? art sleuths investigate whether Sir Thomas Lawrence or Maria Cosway painted mystery portrait
01 August 2019Art programme Fake or Fortune? is returning tonight (August 1) for the second episode of its eighth series with a mystery portrait that art dealer Philip Mould believes could be by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830).

Fake or Fortune? Gainsborough mystery revealed as Philip Mould’s TV show returns to screens
26 July 2019Art programme ‘Fake or Fortune?’ returned to TV screens last night for its eighth series with a mystery surrounding a possible Thomas Gainsborough painting.

Fake or Fortune? returns to TV screens with Gainsborough mystery
25 July 2019Art programme 'Fake or Fortune?' is returning tonight for its eighth series with the first episode dedicated to a Thomas Gainsborough painting.

Fictional antiques dealer Lovejoy to return to screens in new TV adaptation
03 July 2019TV show Lovejoy has been acquired for adaptation three decades after it was first broadcast.

Mahatma Gandhi sculpture more than doubles Antiques Roadshow valuation at Salisbury auction
05 June 2019A maquette for the famous statue of Mahatma Gandhi in London’s Tavistock Square that was valued at £20,000 six years ago on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow by dealer Philip Mould drew a lengthy bidding battle at auction today.

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