| Rogue Traders | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Consumer |
| Presented by | Matt Allwright Dan Penteado (2001–2012) |
| Narrated by | Matt Allwright |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30–60 minutes (Original format) 15-20 minutes (within the Watchdog format) |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 3 May 2001 – 26 March 2009 |
| Related | |
| Watchdog (since 1980) Rogue Restaurants (2008) | |
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Rogue Traders is a BBC One investigative/undercover consumer affairs television programme starring Matt Allwright, an investigative journalist, and Dan Penteado, a private investigator and Allwright's co-host. The show focuses on investigating and exposing the dubious work practices of tradespeople and businesses who have received complaints against them from their customers, often through the use of hidden cameras and rigged situations, sometimes sending members of the show's research team undercover to secretly record any training methods taught to a business' employees that is suspicious or unethical.
The programme ran for nine series between 2001 and 2009,[1] before it was decided to incorporate Rogue Traders' format as a multi-part segment for the long-running consumer series Watchdog; the segment retained the show's name after its merger in 2009. In 2012, Penteado was removed from the show, after he was jailed for benefit fraud.
- ^ "Consumer – TV and radio". BBC. 1 January 1970. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2012.