terrymsweeney

Watched a few of these out of boredom, it's a very poor imitation of a poor US show. Rigged auctions with supposedly everyday dealers. I am assuming it is scripted to some degree as cannot imagine why anyone would like to be portrayed as any of these characters. There is no humour in the show and none of the characters have any redeeming features. Sean Kelly (the original auctioneer from the US series) stands head and shoulders over the rest of the participants in as much as he looks down on them from a great height. To be honest never seen a sadder bunch of peevish self centered characters in any other TV show, and that includes Big Brother lol.

Whatched quite a few episodes of this series now having only recently come across it. Far better then the BBC'S Homes Under the Hammer in as much as they do not just gloss over the costs, such as legal fees and other expenses. After watching a episode of Homes Under the Hammer it makes property development look like a licence to print money where here you get the true story and if anything it prepares you for the realities of dabbling in the property flip market. One thing that does stand out from the episodes I have seen is that Tayo Ogungbenro comes across as someone who does not know the first thing about property development. I am sure it's the producers that chose the property and participants but he often says "looks like they have bitten off more than they can chew" when on the face of it he buys a overpriced property gives them the budget and timescale then in effect blames them for not making a profit? Odd really as the episodes with Simon O'Brien seem to be more "we're all in this together" not sure why the producers set it up like this.

So did not actually get to the end of the first episode it was so poor. At 50 minutes in I had, had enough, this was an opportunity missed. They had obviously spent some money on the production but was anyone really paying attention? We all know we have to suspend or beliefs at sometimes with programs like this but really? Police detective turns up so examine a body found in a mine and brings with him a lighter.... really? The fact that they had ten minutes earlier sent a worker down with a dodgy torch was bad enough but they then had her send him down with just a lighter, stupid and no reason for it. Could have been real and sent them with adequate lighting, just took away from the immersion very poor error.