Heir Hunters prime time

[Heir Hunters tv]

is coming to BBC2 soon.
See WDYTYA magazine this month for the inside story...

we will let you know confirmed transmission date when we know it

[danuslave]

Thanks for this

[7igerby7he7ail]

Used to watch it, but then realised the it was 10 minutes of actual content and the rest was repetitive waffle. Like a lot of otherwise interesting progs they go over and over the same ground.

[Hampshire Lass]

Excellent news 

[Alan b]

Good stuff, look forward to watching it again as it seems ages since we last series on TV.

[helenM123]

I always enjoyed watching this series until our family was contacted by a firm of "Heir Hunters" We were informed (my brother,sister and myself) that we had been traced as beneficiaries to an estate of a relative on my grandmother on my fathers side of the family but couldn't reveal who until we signed up with them.As my sister and I have been researching our family we could account for everyone way back and couldn't think for the life of us who it could be. My late Dad was an only child and had four cousins,two of whom were deceased,I was asked about any other relatives and mentioned the cousins and the chap from the heir hunting firm said yes he was aware of them and had their details and had been in touch with them too. However we found out the following day,it was infact one of my dad's two remaining cousins who had died. He'd been admitted to hospital and died suddenly over a bank holiday without being able to give details of next of kin,hence the delay in us finding out he had died.Somehow this company had got his details and proceeded to try and sign up relatives. He had only been dead for FIVE days!!! One thing that isn't made clear on this programme is just how large a percentage these companies take from deceased estates, 40% + vat in this case! No wonder they are so keen to beat the competition and sign people up. Needless to say they didn't get a penny out of us.

[patrish]

The percentage charged  depends on which Probate Research Company it is, they all differ,   ours only charged 20% which I thought was reasonable, after all without them we would have had nothing.

Thanks for the info, cant wait for the new series to start 

[flipflops]

I'm normally a regular viewer of HH and overall I enjoy it, although  I'm not quite sure how much I'm going to enjoy watching extended and 'repackaged' previous shows.  I got confused enough before when they kept flitting from one story to another, especially when they were very similar This made worse by keep showing the same bit of film over and over again. If they start adding extra footage here and there it will probably blow my mind 

ps can I be the only viewer who doesn't necessarily subscribe to the idea that it is an absolute that it is far better that rather than going to the government,  the money should pass to relatives, no matter how selfish,uncaring and ungrateful they come over as being. Often I think to myself that if the matter was put to a vote I'd vote to let the government have it. 

[Hampshire Lass]

ps can I be the only viewer who doesn't necessarily subscribe to the idea that it is an absolute that it is far better that rather than going to the government,  the money should pass to relatives, no matter how selfish,uncaring and ungrateful they come over as being. Often I think to myself that if the matter was put to a vote I'd vote to let the government have it. 

I love the programme and especially enjoy all the "tit bits" of peoples lives which are revealed, which are really what makes people the people they are.

However, I too feel that in some cases it could well be that the deceased, who have become estranged from their families, may well prefer their estate to go to the government and if they knew that heirhunters and their estranged family were inheriting they may well not be best pleased, which is a sad thought.