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''Rogue Traders'' was a prime-time BBC One presenter-led investigative consumer affairs television series starring Matt Allwright, an investigative journalist and (until 2012) former presenter and side-kick, Dan Penteado who has worked as a private investigator around Europe and the UK. ''Rogue Traders'' began in 2001 and has run for nine series on BBC One. Allwright scripts and films much of the series himself, resulting in an improvised and humourous feel to the show. An occasional catchphrase used during the show is "We never give up." The programme exposes dubious working practices of tradesmen such as double-glazing salesmen, second-hand car dealers, gas fitters, mechanics, roofers, plumbers and domestic rubbish collectors. Since 10 September 2009, a new one-hour revamp of the consumer-affairs programme ''Watchdog'' began airing, incorporating Rogue Traders as a segment of the show. ==Formula== Rogue Traders motif is to film unscrupulous door-to-door tradesmen and salesmen, using hidden cameras and actors playing the "victim" (often elderly widows) and then use the evidence to confront them at the end of the programme. The show usually uses an honest tradesman and sometimes specialist lawyers to provide expert knowledge and commentary. Using these techniques, the programme has "named and shamed" many businesses and individuals who had previously evaded sanction. Among others, they have investigated the dubious working practices of double-glazing companies, second-hand car dealers, gas fitters, mechanics, roofers, plumbers and domestic rubbish collectors. Allwright and Penteado originally used a Honda Super Blackbird motorcycle to travel from one place to another, usually wearing biking leathers throughout the programme. The bike was then changed to a Kawasaki ZZR1400. In the fourth series, Allwright upped the stakes by using a disguise, being made up as a seventy-year-old Welsh man, Roger. He therefore fooled the "rogues" that he was Roger for some time before revealing his true identity. From the fifth series onwards, Matt Allwright has gone one step further and now has a choice of disguises. He can be made up into 22-year-old rocker Joe, middle aged eco-warrior Bob, the elderly Stan, or Jimmy, a "non-specific Eastern European builder". On 2 August 2008, a six-part spin-off show was launched called ''Rogue Restaurants'', where Matt Allwright and Anita Rani investigate and secretly film restaurants across the UK in order to expose illegal and dangerous practices by restaurant managers and staff. They were accompanied by Dr Lisa Ackerley, a Food Safety Expert who was able to give an expert opinion to Matt and Anita.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cvzpf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rogue Traders (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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