May the Best House Win

May the Best House Win is a British lifestyle game show that aired on ITV from 22 February 2010 to 24 June 2013 and was narrated by Guy Porritt. The show sees four proud homeowners compete to win £1,000 by showing off their homes to the other contestants, who will then rate their home based on their interior design, homeliness, comfort, and hospitality.

May the Best House Win
GenreLifestyle
Voices ofGuy Porritt
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of series5 (regular series)
1 (abroad series)
No. of episodes131 (regular series)
20 (abroad series)
Production
Executive producer(s)Ruth Gray
Producer(s)Mark Robinson
Running time60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company(s)Shiver Productions
DistributorITV Studios
Release
Original networkITV, STV, UTV
Picture formatHDTV: 16:9
Original release22 February 2010 (2010-02-22) –
24 June 2013 (2013-06-24)
Chronology
Related showsCome Dine with Me
House Gift

Show overview

The programme consists of four homeowners each preparing their houses in their own unique style to impress the other three contestants, who rate the interior design, homeliness, comfort, and hospitality all in a bid to win £1,000. The show is often compared with other daytime shows Come Dine with Me and House Gift.

Adaption

An adaption of this show was Mein Zuhause, Dein Zuhause – Wer wohnt am schönsten? on kabel eins in Germany in 2013.[1]

The American version of the show is called May the Best House Win USA and it airs it on TLC.[2]

Criticism

The show has been criticized for being too much like Channel 4's Come Dine with Me, mainly in Harry Hill's TV Burp. Sian Brewis on Leicester Mercury described May The Best House Win as a Come Dine With Me, for houses.[3] Lorraine Gibson of the Bournemouth Echo also noted the similarity predicting that the show would, like Come Dine With Me, eventually be transferred to the evening schedules.[4] UKGameshows.com said "It's not such a bad programme really, but the likeness to Come Dine with Me is hard to ignore, and makes the programme feel quite derivative".

Transmissions

May the Best House Win
SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
122 February 20105 March 201010
210 January 201118 February 201130
314 November 201123 December 201130
428 May 201210 July 201230
513 May 201324 June 201330

May the Best House Win Abroad
SeriesStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
11 October 201226 October 201220

Specials
TitleStart dateEnd dateEpisodes
May the Best Christmas House Win21 December 20101
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gollark: We should also give it access to neurotoxin dispensers.
gollark: I guess they'd be ideal actually! Especially if available as an output for GPT-485.

References
  2. "May the Best House Win USA". 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  3. Sian Brewis (23 February 2010). "TV Review: Married Single Other & May the Best House Win". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  4. Lorraine Gibson (26 February 2010). "The Baftas and May the Best House Win". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.


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