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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on November 29, 2019, 19:40:41 PM
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I simply love watching The Repair Shop now on BBC 1. The crafts people always carry out outstanding repairs to the delight of their "clients" But tonight I think they excelled themselves.
The "client" arrived with a plastic box
(https://i.postimg.cc/F7F1GMSY/parts3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/F7F1GMSY)
Inside the box was a pile of broken/tattered wooden and metal bits.
(https://i.postimg.cc/SnM4GdgX/parts1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/SnM4GdgX)
After contributions from three of the team, this is what the repair looked like.
(https://i.postimg.cc/QVwnq3wb/parts4.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/QVwnq3wb)
Needless to say the owner was totally gobsmacked.
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Wow that is amazing !! :)
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Watched it H, the repaired wheel looked great.
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It is a great programme, love seeing the owners reaction to the fantastic work these people do.
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I don't watch it myself but my OH enjoys watching it. Just the sort of thing he'd enjoy doing ;D
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It's a shame that it's not real though. :)
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It's a shame that it's not real though. :)
I take it you mean that the building is not really a Repair Shop and is filmed in the Weald and Downland Living Museum.
Does detract in any way from the work done though, :)
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Does detract in any way from the work done though, :)
Doesn't ?
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Oops :-[ :-[ :-[
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Not one to disagree with you ever H as I am sure you know...but I cannot stand this programme... :)
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...but I cannot stand this programme... :)
I thought it was just me.
Ermmmm ...... That's the programme you cannot stand, not 'just me'. Although I may be worng. :)
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scunner, KKOB.......
Reasons please gentlemen.
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An overload of smarm.
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It would be better if they gave them a bill for the work at the end and to see their reaction to that also :)
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scunner, KKOB.......
Reasons please gentlemen.
It is just another example of cheap & nasty tv. Hanging around a council tip asking people for their broken old rubbish and turning it into some repainted old rubbish that some tw4t was stupid enough to part with money for. It's lazy, pointless television.
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Ah now I think we are talking about quite different programmes here Keith...
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It is just another example of cheap & nasty tv. Hanging around a council tip asking people for their broken old rubbish and turning it into some repainted old rubbish that some tw4t was stupid enough to part with money for. It's lazy, pointless television. [quote
I think that's Money For Nothing mate. But I agree with your sentiments about it.
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Haha money for bleedin old rope! I do apologise for my confusion. I’m sure I will hate the one John is actually talking about, just let me go check which one it is :D
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It would be better if they gave them a bill for the work at the end and to see their reaction to that also :)
Knowing what is charged for the simplest of repairs,all of those shown would be completely out of sensibility, but i do appreciate the skill of the crafts people
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Makes you wonder who DOES pay though. Is it the 'artisans' because it's good publicity for their businesses ? Or is it the licence payer ?
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Mr Google has the answer!
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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.
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Tough crowd on this thread :)
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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.
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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.
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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/
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My personal hate is Dickinson's Real Deal :D
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.
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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
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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. ;)
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Totally agree re the bears chris35
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Will have to look out for this one,as for Real Deal I believe Dickinson is a convicted fraudster and lots of the so called experts are actors
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I think his conviction is regarded as spent now, as it was over 50 years ago.
As for the dealers being actors, this website might be of interest.
https://www.realitytitbit.com/itv/meet-the-dickinsons-real-deal-dealers-who-are-they-what-else-do-they-do
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One of this evenings repairs
From this (maybe 30 + pieces of various sizes ranging from medium to very small)........
(https://i.postimg.cc/4HR9KC8d/rs1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/4HR9KC8d)
To this............
(https://i.postimg.cc/p5nHpTGN/rs2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/p5nHpTGN)
Superb workmanship.
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Love this programme
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We always watch this programme, the people who feature on it are so talented and clever, the alabaster lampshade repaired in last night's programme was absolutely in bits but looked fantastic once repaired.