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
Original release
Release	August 3, 2013

Bares für Rares (transl. Cash for Rarities), 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[edit]

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[edit]

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 Topfgeldjäger.^[4]

Season	Episodes	Start of broadcast	End of broadcast	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[edit]

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

International versions[edit]

Country	Title	Presenter	Channel	Air date	End date
Austria	Bares für Rares Österreich	Willi Gabalier	ServusTV	2020	2020
France	Affaire conclue	Sophie Davant	France 2	August 21, 2017	present
Greece	Cash or Trash	Despina Miraraki	Star Channel	May 21, 2022	present
Hungary	Kincsvadászok	Attila Till	TV2	January 22, 2024	present
Italy	Cash or Trash - Chi offre di più?	Paolo Conticini	NOVE	October 4, 2021	present
Morocco	أخر ثمن (Akhir Taman)	Samia Akariou	2M	February 18, 2023	present
Netherlands Belgium (Flanders)	Cash or Trash	Martien Meiland	SBS 6	October 23, 2019	April 14, 2020
Poland	Łowcy Skarbów. Kto da więcej	Paweł Orleański	TV4	2022	present
United Kingdom	The Bidding Room	Nigel Havers	BBC One	2020	present