Consumer TV Series on television

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BBC THREE - Young, British and Broke
The truth about Pay Day Loans

3rd December 2013 @ 9pm
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With a million people set to use payday loans to pay for Christmas this year, Miquita Oliver goes undercover to find out the truth about Britain's most controversial type of borrowing and meets people whose loans have spiralled out of control, sometimes with devastating results. But for every person she talks to who is desperate for cash to survive, there are others just after money for new clothes and parties. So how much do people really understand about how these loans work, and what they are getting into? Miquita, who has had her own financial troubles, opens up her own payday loans shop rigged with secret cameras and hears startling stories of how these loans both exploit and are exploited by the people rushing to take them out. With the industry under scrutiny like never before, she tests whether lenders have cleaned up their act or whether some are still lending irresponsibly, creating big problems for the very people they are supposed to help

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LAST OF SERIES - Watchdog
Link: Series 32

Episode 8 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 6th Nov 2013
Consumer series. The team investigates pet insurance as premiums rocket. And why are some people being told they are too old to take out a mortgage?

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Watchdog
Link: Series 32

Episode 7 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 30th Oct 2013
Consumer series. Anne Robinson interviews energy secretary Ed Davey, and we investigate BT Openreach and their promises to keep the nation connected

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Watchdog

Series 32

Episode 6 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm23rd Oct 2013
Consumer series. The team investigates packaged bank accounts and the rising cost of train fares.

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Watchdog

Series 32

Episode 5 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 16th Oct 2013

Consumer series. Senior representatives from the big six energy companies take your questions on why already high bills look set to rise again.

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Watchdog

Series 32

Episode 4 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 9th Oct 2013

Oz Clarke reveals the truth about supermarkets' discounted wine, and the team have the latest on Watchdog's energy campaign.

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Watchdog Series 32Episode2 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 2nd Oct 2013

Stories include the pram that suddenly collapses with the baby inside. Plus how the mobile companies are cashing in on people using their phones abroad.

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New Series:

Watchdog Series 32 Episode2 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 18th Sept 2013

Actor Richard E Grant investigates the car fault that could have put his daughter's life in danger. Plus, the holiday company that doesn't know its geography - the leading travel agent who sent its customers on a Portuguese holiday... to Spain!

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New Series:

Watchdog Series 32 Episode 1 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 18th Sept 2013

The team lifts the lid on the energy company that is miscalculating bills, chasing payments and wrongly breaking into people's homes. Plus, the the chemical ingredient in widespread use across the cosmetics industry that could be causing an allergy epidemic

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RIP OF BRITAIN

BBCC 1 @ 7.30 pm tonight - 5th August 2013
Episode 8 Series 4

This episode features a look at the care home contracts that come with a costly sting in the tail, and how buying a second hand car led to one woman being woken in the middle of the night by debt collectors chasing her for a loan she had never taken out. Plus an online ticket agency that did not play by the rules, and a couple whose holiday hotel did not just have the builders in - it was virtually being pulled down around them.....Read more Here: LINK:

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Hunting the Doorstep Conmen

* Transmission: Tue 23 Jul 2013*
* Time: 9.00pm - 10.00pm
* Channel: ITV

Episode one:

Tonight, reporter Conor Woodman hits the road with trading standards officers to see first-hand the methods doorstep conmen use to rob the elderly and vulnerable of their money. Out on patrol officers spot a familiar face, who is arrested for carrying out gardening work without the right paperwork. During his arrest he issues a chilling threat and trading standards officer Martin Woodley says: “I don’t know if you noticed when they were saying, ‘We know where you live.’ Being threatened is just part of the job.”

They become embroiled in a pursuit as a suspected conman attempts to escape their clutches in his van. Conor meets 85-year-old widower Kit Gardner, whose dementia made her a target for travelling conmen Ryan Lowe and Stephen Wood, who charged her more than £6,000 for non-existent repairs to her house......Read more HERE

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Repeat from 6th June Broadcast -
BBC 1 @ 11pm tonight - 12th June

Panorama - Cash for Questions Undercover

Three years ago, David Cameron declared that lobbying was the 'next big scandal waiting to happen'. Now this Panorama special goes undercover to reveal lobbying practices which raise serious questions about standards in our political life. The programme's allegations have already contributed to a series of high-profile resignations and suspensions in Westminster......

BBC iPlayer: BBC iPlayer - Panorama: Cash for Questions Undercover

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New Series:

Watchdog Series 31 Episode 7 of 8

BBC 1 @ 8pm 12th June 2013

The team look at the postcode lottery that determines the exchange rate for your holiday cash. Plus, mobile data roaming charges- are they legal?.....LINKY: BBC One - Watchdog, Series 31, Episode 7

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Panorama -Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery?
BBC 1 @ 7.30pm - 12th June 2013

When a CCTV camera snaps your car and you get a ticket in the post, how annoyed do you get? More motorists face this frustration as councils are now fining drivers in ever-greater numbers after capturing them on CCTV. They claim they do it to keep the traffic flowing smoother. But private emails obtained by Panorama reveal a different story, with officials congratulating each other on the number of tickets issued: 'Another record month, guys. Well done,' says one. The programme visits the box junction where the council fines so many drivers - 29,000 last year alone - that it's known as the 'Money Box', and tries to find new ways to cut down the mountain of traffic tickets now issued every year.....

Linky: BBC One - Panorama, Traffic Fines - Highway Robbery?

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Panorama - Blacklist Britain

BBC 1 @ 8.30pm - 10th June 2013

For years some of the biggest names in British business subscribed to a secret blacklist containing thousands of names with the power to deny work and destroy livelihoods. From the Millennium Dome to the iconic Olympic Park, some construction firms paid for information on workers they feared could delay work and cost them money. Reporter Richard Bilton does the first television interview with the bookkeeper for the organisation which ran the list. And he discovers that even though the list has now been closed down, blacklisting still appears to be alive and well in Britain.

LINKY: BBC One - Panorama, Blacklist Britain