Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979, based on a 1977 documentary programme. The programme has spawned versions in other countries with the same TV format, including Canada and the United States. As of 2018 it is in its 40th series and is currently presented by Fiona Bruce. The programme began as a 1977 BBC documentary about a London auction house doing a tour of the West
Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV program) talking about their item(s) and their appraisers talking about the provenance, history, and value of the item(s) follow, interspersed with several brief informal appraisals, lasting about a minute or so and called "over-the-shoulder appraisals". The episode concludes with the host wrapping things up; in more recent seasons, the Feedback Booth, a series of clips of people talking about their experience at "Antiques Roadshow" rolls with the credits. The program was created in 1996 by WGBH-TV, based on the BBC's program of the same name that had been airing in the United Kingdom since 1979. The first American episodes were broadcast