Homes Under the Hammer fans rage after BBC uses EXACT same house in two separate episodes which aired a day apart
TWO almost-identical episodes of Homes Under The Hammer were shown a day apart after an episode from a different series featured the same properties.
The BBC scheduling blunder left viewers fuming — with many lodging complaints.
They spotted a church conversion and a cottage in need of full modernisation both featured in each of the one-after-the-other broadcasts last week.
In Thursday’s episode from series 27, presenter Tommy Walsh, 67, toured the Grade II listed church in Duxford, Cambs.
It was sold for £218,000 in 2021 and turned into two flats.
The show also featured former footballer Dion Dublin, 55, exploring a cottage in Ruskington, Lincs.
The property was sold to two sisters for £180,000 in 2022.
The next day, the same two auctions, with identical tours and interviews, were shown again in a repeat of an episode from series 25, originally aired in December 2022.
Producers recycle material to ensure they can fill an episode every day. The two shows last week had different third properties.
But fans said it felt like Groundhog Day as they were watching more or less the same programme.
One, on a forum for the show, wrote: “BBC, why are you putting on the same programme twice in two days.”
Another fumed: “It wasn’t the same edition, but it does appear that Friday’s ‘new’ episode featured some of the same stuff that had appeared in the repeated episode the day before, and nobody realised this when they scheduled them on consecutive days.
“This is unfortunate, but it does happen sometimes.”
Multiple fans filed formal complaints with the Beeb over the low-effort scheduling flop, triggering the BBC to say it wouldn’t happen again.
The broadcaster said: “We received some complaints from viewers after the scheduling of two different episodes resulted in similar content being broadcast on adjacent days.
“We have looked into this issue and we can see that the same two properties did feature on consecutive days, this was due to a scheduling error.
“We are taking steps to avoid this happening again in the future.”