A NEW style of television antiques show has been filmed at Pewsey's auction rooms. Channel 4 has already run a successful pilot for a new series to be called Natural Born Dealers.

Last week the recording team was at the Jubilee Auction Rooms run by David Harrison and Sue Owen for two days.

The new series takes a different twist to the usual TV auction programmes like Flog It presented by Marlborough-based Paul Martin that filmed two episodes at the Pewsey auction last year.

Presenter David Harper pits two teams of two against each other to see who can make most money from an item or items bought at an auction for £300 or less. The teams then have seven days in which to re-sell the item or items they have bought for as much as they can.

They can use any method apart from E-bay to make a profit, from selling to friends to offering their purchases to collectors.

On viewing day on Tuesday last week the local team of Graham Lee, who runs the Waterfront bar on Pewsey Wharf, and one of his customers and friends Kirk Thorn delved among the hundreds of lots to get ideas of what to buy at the auction sale the following day.

The rival team, a pair from South Gloucestershire, joined them at the Jubilee auction room to see who could find the best bargains on which they could make the most profit.

Mr Harrison who has run auctions in Marlborough and Pewsey for 30 years, said he was delighted to host another TV programme.

He said: "It's good for our own business but it's also good for Pewsey and helps put it on the map."

When the programmes are eventually transmitted the dates will be announced later they will include filmed visits to local businesses and amenities.

Mr Lee, who collects canal paraphernalia to exhibit at the Waterfront, said: "The programme is different to anything that has been on before and works in reverse to most of them.

"We can buy what we choose with the £300 Channel 4 gives us and we can do it up, clean it up or do anything that makes it more attractive so we can make a profit."

He was cagey, however, about giving away what lots he and Mr Thorn had marked down in their auction catalogues as likely buys on which they could make a good return.

"You will have to wait and see the programme to find out what we bought and how we did," he said.