BBC 1 tonight 8.30 Scrapyard fly on the wall

[Justin Case]

I still have no idea how they need 25k a week to break even.

 

Even if their 40 staff are on 300 a week each (generous for Northern zero skills prisoners) that's 12k in wages. Call it 15.

 

What would a yard in Bolton be, 1k a week tops?

 

Insurance etc can't be much? I fail to see what their costs are unless they're paying off massive debts from setting the place up initially.

Don't forget the cost of the cars that they are buying in every week. At an average of £80 each, that's £8k per week. I haven't watched it yet,  so I don't know how many cars a week they break, but I would think it would have to be well over 100 to keep all those hard-working lads busy

[cort16]

Turning over 25k a week is 1.2 million a year which is a lot of money but not unbelievable amounts. I wonder how much of that turn over is profit?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just watched the first episode and I was surprised that I found the people were mostly likeable, I wasn't expecting that.

I can't see how they can drag nothing happening out into a complete series though.

[michael1703]

Mind you, I just tapped their postcode into the voa and their business rates are £37k per annum!

 

http://www.2010.voa.gov.uk/rli/en/basic/find/valuation/2010/14507102000/14168413000

[Micrashed]

Watched on iPlayer.

 

Lost the plot 14 mins in and it made me want to kill bunny rabbits with a spade.

I shant be watching it again.

[Cavcraft]

They probably weigh in complete cars that are just not worth stripping for parts. They'll be paying a fixed amount dictated by the current price of steel, so a car with no demand for parts is best to go straight into the crusher after being depolluted.

 

I'd be willing to bet if he is the biggest yard in the county (or whatever it was they said) he'll be pissing £1.2M a year no danger.

[PiperCub]

does nobody proof watch this type of program before airing them ?  1 minute the red crv has a smashed rear end then later it looks perfect

 

No, they don't. How do I know? I used to work in network TV and had to technical-preview shows quite often (point out tech errors with the vision & sound) but when you tried to point out something was factually or structurally wrong - say continuity as you spotted - generally got ignored as the producers were often too far up themselves (not to mention lazy) to take notice and correct it.

[londonm]

TV makes everything shite.....Take something as promising as Nigella flouncing around the kitchen, pissed up in her nightie.   Still fucking boring....

I rest my case.

I get a lot from Nigella actually.....

[Richard]

I think they probably make Nigella seem more interesting than she really is.

[Cavcraft]

I'd like to marinate my pork sword slowly into her mini oven and infuse it with several fluid ounces of fanny batter.

[overrun]

I think they probably make Nigella seem more interesting than she really is.

She's a fox and I love her saucy attitude. She does it without trying, imo.

 

I iPlayered both of the scrap yard programmes as well (bored at work) and they are terrible.

That young un wants to learn how to read and write, before learning to operate 'Gloria'.

[dave21478]

I watched these on iplayer last night and they were not as bad as expected.

On the up-side, they havent been dumbed down to American levels like Ice Road Truckers or Storage Wars, but Im not seeing how much interest they can spin from this.

[Richard]

I'm fairly sure Gloria was the crusher, I wonder if the script writer bothered to watch any of the footage.

[AnthonyG]

I actually thought it was OK, could have been a whole lot worse. It's not surprising that many Megane and Scenic 2's have already hit the yards, and I was gratified to see several examples on the racks.

[londonm]

I'd like to marinate my pork sword slowly into her mini oven and infuse it with several fluid ounces of fanny batter.

I'd like to brown my meat for half an hour in her oven.

[UmBongo]

No, they don't. How do I know? I used to work in network TV and had to technical-preview shows quite often (point out tech errors with the vision & sound) but when you tried to point out something was factually or structurally wrong - say continuity as you spotted - generally got ignored as the producers were often too far up themselves (not to mention lazy) to take notice and correct it.

 

I'd like to know who is responsible for the on-screen captions on the BBC news.

 

Some fudge-bandit put up Brigadeer instead of Brigadier when the old geez was being interviewed.