Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

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Series 3 is a version with celebrity chefs competing, cunningly titled ''Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Food'' and employing what is essentially a less rigid version of the [[Recipe for Success|Recipe for Success]] format.
Series 3 is a version with celebrity chefs competing, cunningly titled ''Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Food'' and employing what is essentially a less rigid version of the [[Recipe for Success|Recipe for Success]] format.
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Following a BBC Trust investigation in 2009, the programme was found to be in violation of BBC programming guidelines, although it was noted the BBC was unaware of the practices being used by the production company. The Trust found that:
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:"...in this case a sofa was being sold. Unbeknown to Reef Television management the real buyer did not wish to appear on camera so a friend stood in for him/her. That sale fell through and the dealer then sold the sofa at auction for the same price... [the BBC Editorial Standards Committee] noted that the reconstructions had not changed the underlying facts about the sales which had taken place... Even so the ESC considered both practices to be unacceptable."
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The outcome was that the series, and another, [[Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting]], which was also found to have misled viewers, would not be shown again.
[[Category:Lifestyle]]
[[Category:Lifestyle]]
[[Category:Antiques]]
[[Category:Antiques]]
[[Category:Food]]
[[Category:Food]]

Revision as of 23:31, 23 December 2009

Contents

Host

Stephen Taylor Woodrow (voiceover)

Co-hosts

Various antiques experts including Eric Knowles, Jonty Hearnden, Lorne Spicer, Tim Wonnacott

Broadcast

Reef Television for BBC One, 18 March 2008 to present (game show format used from 6 October 2008)

Synopsis

A show which completely changed its format from one series to the next. The general idea is that TV "experts" are shown using their expertise to invest their own money instead of other people's, and the original format was not a game show but simply a documentary series following TV property experts buying houses with their own money. However, for the second series it became yet another in the long line of Bargain Hunt wannabes, with two antiques experts competing to make a profit with up to £1000 of their own money. The experts are given certain parameters (having to buy from a certain place, or a certain type of object) but are free to purchase as few or as many items as they like, and can even do them up before selling them on. Hardly the most original format (and an hour is really too long — the repeats sensibly trim it down to 43 minutes) but some of the experts are good value.

Series 3 is a version with celebrity chefs competing, cunningly titled Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Food and employing what is essentially a less rigid version of the Recipe for Success format.

Following a BBC Trust investigation in 2009, the programme was found to be in violation of BBC programming guidelines, although it was noted the BBC was unaware of the practices being used by the production company. The Trust found that:

"...in this case a sofa was being sold. Unbeknown to Reef Television management the real buyer did not wish to appear on camera so a friend stood in for him/her. That sale fell through and the dealer then sold the sofa at auction for the same price... [the BBC Editorial Standards Committee] noted that the reconstructions had not changed the underlying facts about the sales which had taken place... Even so the ESC considered both practices to be unacceptable."

The outcome was that the series, and another, Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting, which was also found to have misled viewers, would not be shown again.

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