Bares für Rares

Bares für Rares
Bares für Rares
Genre	Infotainment
Presented by	Horst Lichter
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	1000+
Production
Running time	45–55 minutes
Production companies	Warner Bros. International Television Production, ZDF
Distributor	ZDF
Release
Picture format	16:9
Original release	August 3, 2013
External links
	Website

Host Horst Lichter

Bares für Rares (transl. Dough for Olds), also known as Cash or Trash in English,^[1] is a German television series on Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) presented by Horst Lichter, produced since 2013. It was first aired on August 3, 2013 on ZDF's sister channel ZDFneo and includes 8 seasons with a total of more than 1000 episodes as of 2020.^[2]

The show, which was awarded the Goldene Kamera in 2018 and the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in 2019, is considered the most successful show in the ZDF afternoon program thanks to its good audience ratings. On weekdays, around 3 million people watch with a regular market share of around 25 percent, even for the repeats in the early evening program on ZDFneo, up to 1.5 million viewers can sometimes be found. In 2019, the show was viewed by 5.65 million people on average.^[2]

Concept[]

In the show, selected applicants each present a curiosity, rarity or antique they have brought with them. Once they have received their expertise, they will have the opportunity on site to offer their exhibit to a changing five-person podium for sale and, ideally, to sell it to the highest bidder for „Bares“ ("cash").

Since July 2017, the station has occasionally been showing special evening editions with unusual exhibits in an extended setting, in which prominent providers also present and sell objects, sometimes for charitable purposes. In this format, there are seven dealers in the sales area.

Seasons[]

The show was first broadcast on ZDFneo. Further episodes were shown weekly on the fixed broadcasting slot on Sundays at 1:15 p.m. on ZDF.^[3] From May 18, 2015, the show received the weekday slot for the discontinued cooking show .^[4]

Season (Nr.)	Episodes (number)	Start of broadcast (Germany)	End of broadcast (Germany)	Notes
1	6	August 4, 2013	September 8, 2013	sundays
2	19	January 5, 2014	June 22, 2014	sundays
3	6	September 28, 2014	November 9, 2014	sundays
4	51	Januar 18, 2015	September 11, 2015	initially on Sundays, from May 18 on weekdays at 3:05 p.m.^[4]
5	7	September 13, 2015	October 25, 2015	weekdays, 3:05 p.m.
6	107	December 28, 2015	June 10, 2016	weekdays, 3:05 p.m.
7	208^[5]	August 29, 2016	July 31, 2017^[5]	weekdays, 3:05 p.m.
8		September 4, 2017^[6]	not yet known	weekdays, 3:05 p.m.

Literature[]

Hannes Burkhardt, : Trödelshows im Fernsehen – Geschichte als Ware. In: Public History Weekly 4 (2016) 24. doi:10.1515/phw-2016-6424
Horst Lichter, : Bares für Rares: Die spannendsten Geschichten, die interessantesten Objekte, die sensationellsten Gebote. Riva Verlag, 2020, ISBN 3-7453-0822-0.

International versions[]

Country	Title	Presenter	Channel	Air date	End date
France	Affaire conclue	Sophie Davant	France 2	August 21, 2017	present
Italy	Cash or Trash - Chi offre di più?	Paolo Conticini	NOVE	October 4, 2021	present
United Kingdom		Nigel Havers	BBC One	2020	2020
Netherlands Belgium (Flanders)	Cash or Trash	Martien Meiland	SBS 6	October 23, 2019	April 14, 2020
Austria	Bares für Rares Österreich	Roland Gruschka	ServusTV	2020	2020