Escape To The Country

[dave068]

I've been watching some repeats of Escape to the Country and I notice that all the houses that are shown to the would-be buyers never have any For Sale signs outside them. Is this programme a fantasy or just a platform for people to show what a marvellous job they have done in doing up their property?

[shoota]

Perhaps they can't show the signs as that would be advertising that estate agent?

[aelmpvw]

highly desirable properties will soon sell without a 'for sale' sign being erected

[Buenchico]

Exactly, Shoota.

'Escape to the Country' is made for the BBC, which is always very careful to exclude the name of any commercial company. If you watch Eastenders, for example, you'll see that whenever someone swigs from a can of lager (or from a bottle of water) they'll always pick it up so that the brand name is facing away from the camera.

[woofgang]

in days gone by, they used to go to the lengths of repackaging stuff or blanking out brand names to avoid advertising

[yogasun]

No, it's genuine. A house at the top of our road was up for sale (only just had an offer!) and the vendor didn't have a board up anyway. It was featured in Escape To The Country about a year ago. And as Buenchico says they would have taken the board down anyway.

[lidlicker]

I love this programme. What I don't understand is why the last house is called the "mystery house" I assumed they all were a mystery, they don't look at any brochures before viewing do they? I would be grateful anyone knows the answer.