BBC recommissions Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

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STV Group PLC

20 February 2013

 



BBC RECOMMISSIONS CELEBRITY ANTIQUES ROAD TRIP

20^th February 2013

STV Productions has been commissioned to make a third series of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip for peak time broadcast on BBC2.

The 20 x 60" episodes will be on screen later in 2013. The first series of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip aired on BBC2 in October 2011 and the second series was broadcast in September and November 2012. 

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip follows pairs of celebrities as they take on the challenge of finding the most profitable antique. Filming will take place throughout the UK with each celebrity teamed with one of the show's popular regular experts to guide them through the antiques trail.

Wendy Rattray, creative director of STV Productions, said: "The Antiques Road Trip format has proved to be hugely successful and this recommission for another 20 episodes of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip shows what a popular addition it is to the BBC2 schedule."

Jo Street, commissioning executive for BBC, said: "We're delighted to be putting some more celebrities through their antiques buying paces. The series is yet another fantastic example of the terrific range of Daytime shows being commissioned and produced in Scotland."

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip and Antiques Road Trip have been ratings success stories and in 2012Antiques Road Trip picked up the British Academy Scotland Award for Features / Factual Entertainment.

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For further information, please contact the STV press office:-  

Eleanor Marshall

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Notes to Editors

STV Productions

STV Productions is one of the UK's leading content businesses, with ambitious plans for growth and expansion in the UK and overseas. The company has a record of success across a range of genres including drama, factual and entertainment, producing a wide range of programmes for a variety of networks. STV Productions has recently been commissioned to make entertainment shows Catchphrase and Fake Reaction for ITV1 and ITV2. Recent productions include ratings success Antiques Road Trip, including a celebrity version, for BBC Two and drama The Poison Tree for ITV1.  Work is also underway on a brand new, cookery format for BBC Two, Country Show Cook Off. STV Productions also works in partnership with US production company, Kinetic Content, licensing original formats in their respective companies and developing new formats, such as the Perez Hilton Super Fan entertainment series for ITV2. 

 

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