BBC issue update on future of iconic long-running favourite Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow fans have been given some great news with the BBC confirming the cameras are about to roll again.

The corporation have confirmed that the beloved Sunday night show will be back filming within months ahead of the 47th series as the public get to find out if their hidden treasures are worth thousands – or not much at all. Fiona Bruce will be back and it will return to six locations.

This time, the team will travel to Firstsite Art Gallery in Colchester, Essex before heading to Thirlestane Castle in Lauder in the Scottish Borders. Beaumaris Castle on the island of Anglesey, the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery in Ealing, London, will also feature – and so will Cromford Mills, close to Matlock in Derbyshire.

Fiona Bruce

Fiona, who will be about to film her seventeenth series, has confirmed she will be back and she said: “A new series of the Antiques Roadshow begins again and I, for one, can’t wait. Travelling the length and breadth of the UK to see what the great British public have pulled out of their attics and off their shelves.

“I know we’ll see items of great quality and value – but I’m always drawn in by a moving personal story too. They are what often stick longest in my memory. And I’m determined to improve my record on Basic, Better, Best. Surely I’ve got to get more of them right this year!”

Fiona, 59, who also presents Question Time, joined Antiques Roadshow in 2008. However, some viewers have criticised the mum-of-two for ‘hogging the limelight’, with one ever suggesting on twitter that the “Antiques Roadshow is even more about Fiona Bruce than before.”

Antiques Roadshow

While Fiona has received criticism from some fans, others have praised the presenter. Last year, the host announced the Antiques Roadshow experts had refused to value items after a heart-wrenching tribute. The show – filmed at London’s St Thomas’s and St Bartholomew’s hospital saw a precious piece brought in by a nurse.

Addressing the viewers, Fiona said: “Given the emotional and often moving testimony you’ll hear tonight, our experts won’t be providing any valuations,” she said. “But the most humble items will reveal powerful stories. Nurses are there as we enter the world until we leave it, they care for us when we’re at our most vulnerable and when we’re most in need.”

The BBC show first aired in 1979 and for more than four decades, Antiques Roadshow has been travelling the country so people can bring their heirlooms to be valued by the team of experts. The most valuable item to have ever been brought to the team was a maquette of the Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North sculpture, which was valued at a massive £1million.

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