Four Rooms (TV series)

Four Rooms
Genre	Factual
Presented by	Anita Rani (2011–15) Sarah Beeny (2016–19)
Narrated by	Caius Julian (2012)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	96 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production companies	Talkback Thames (2011) Boundless (2012–19)
Original release
Network	Channel 4/More4
Release	24 May 2011 (2011-05-24) – 23 November 2019 (2019-11-23)

Four Rooms is a British factual television show that aired on Channel 4/More4 from 24 May 2011 to 23 November 2019. It was originally hosted by Anita Rani from 2011 to 2015, and then by Sarah Beeny from 2016 to 2019.

Format

On each episode, members of the public bring in collectible and valuable items and attempt to negotiate a sale price in a series of one-on-one meetings with four dealers. Each seller may choose the order in which they will meet the dealers, who are seated in separate rooms and are not allowed to communicate with each other. If a seller is dissatisfied with a dealer's final offer, they may move on to the next room in the chosen sequence; however, doing so voids the offer.

Episodes

Main article: List of Four Rooms episodes

Series		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	8	24 May 2011 (2011-05-24)	12 July 2011 (2011-07-12)
	2	8[1]	21 March 2012 (2012-03-21)	20 May 2012 (2012-05-20)
	3	30[2]	29 April 2013 (2013-04-29)	20 September 2013 (2013-09-20)
	4	30[3]	18 May 2014 (2014-05-18)	28 November 2015 (2015-11-28)
	5	20[4]	22 August 2016 (2016-08-22)	23 November 2019 (2019-11-23)

Dealers

Key:

  Currently stars

  Previously starred

Dealer	Series
	1	2	3	4	5
Andrew Lamberty
Celia Sawyer
Alex Proud
David Sonnenthal
Raj Bisram
Pearl Lowe
Emma Hawkins
Gordon Watson
Jeff Salmon
Jonny Elichaoff
Maurice Amdur
Shaun Clarkson
Tamara Beckwith
Tom Bolt
Peter Ratcliffe
Wendy Meakin

International versions

Three short-lived versions of Four Rooms were licensed internationally, none lasting more than one season:

• In the United States, six episodes titled Final Offer—subsequently retitled Four Rooms US when shown in the UK in 2013[5]—aired from May 2012 to July 2012.[6]
• A Canadian version ran on CBC-TV for eight episodes from January 2014 to March 2014.[7]
• The German version called "Wer bietet mehr?" hosted by Kai Pflaume ran on public-legal channel Norddeutscher Rundfunk for only three episodes in 2016.[8]
• The German version "Die Superhändler – 4 Räume, 1 Deal", started on 27 August 2018, on RTL Television and is hosted by Rag-and-bone man Sükrü Pehlivan. Over 500 episodes had aired by 2021.[9]
• The Dutch version "Van Onschatbare Waarde", started on 2 March 2017 on NPO 1 Omroep Max and was hosted by Dionne Stax. Seven seasons so far as per October 2023.[10]
• The Flemish version "Stukken van Mensen", started in 2016 in Belgium on the commercial channel Vier. It is hosted by Evy Gruyaert.

References

1. "Channel Four orders more Four Rooms". ATV Today. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
2. "'Four Rooms' set to return with new series in 2013". Antique Collecting Magazine. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
3. "Channel 4 Commissions 30 New Episodes Of FOUR ROOMS". FremantleMedia. 21 November 2013. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
4. "C4 recommissions Four Rooms with a new presenter, Sarah Beeny". Channel 4. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
5. "Four Rooms US Episode List". IMDb. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
6. Genzlinger, Neil (30 May 2012), "Adding Some Guesswork to Memorabilia Sales, Just for Televised Fun: 'Final Offer' on Discovery Looks at Memorabilia Sales", The New York Times
7. "Four Rooms". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
8. "Wer bietet mehr?".
9. RTL holt britische Trödelshow (erneut) nach Deutschland - DWDL.de
10. "Van onschatbare waarde". MAX Vandaag (in Dutch). Retrieved 31 December 2023.

External links

• Four Rooms on Channel 4
• Four Rooms at UKGameshows.com