Watchdog
Season 41
TV-PG
Watchdog is a BBC television series that investigates viewers' reports of problematic experiences with traders, retailers, and other companies around the UK. It has had great success in changing the awareness consumers have of their purchasing rights and in changing policies of companies, closing down businesses, and pushing for law changes.
It is shown on BBC One and is available for online viewing or download via BBC iPlayer.
It is shown on BBC One and is available for online viewing or download via BBC iPlayer.
Where to Watch Season 41
6 Episodes
- Episode 1E1
Episode 1Among tonight's stories, a shocking report reveals serious safety concerns over some of the country's best-known companies, and the team tackles a problem that more viewers have been in touch about than almost any other, unravelling how you could find yourself being billed for mobile phone services you're sure you never agreed to, or that don't even exist. Rogue Traders is back, catching on camera perhaps its most audacious scam yet. How will the trader react when they realise their lies have been rumbled? The Swab Mob uncovers dramatic hygiene failings in the last place you'd expect, and there's live reaction and advice while the programme is on air. - Episode 2E2
Episode 2As the nation's biggest consumer series continues live from Salford, Steph McGovern, Matt Allwright and Nikki Fox hold more big names to account, tonight exposing the major retailers caught on camera breaking the law by selling knives to a 16-year-old. Also, how an agency trusted with our personal details has managed to lose thousands of people's data, and reformed fraudster King Con unravels a mysterious and growing scam that's bumping up an essential cost for everyone who drives. Plus, in Rogue Traders, Matt's on the trail of a firm of locksmiths with an unorthodox and very expensive approach to fixing broken locks. - Episode 3E3
Episode 3Live from Salford, Matt Allwright, Steph McGovern and Nikki Fox call to account more big-name companies letting viewers down, exposing how one of Britain’s biggest businesses is sending debt collectors after people who’ve never even been its customers. Also, secret filming captures three familiar high street names repeatedly breaking their own rules, Prue Leith investigates the extent of food waste at some of the country’s most familiar food chains, and, in Rogue Traders, a used car dealer is caught on camera selling an unroadworthy vehicle – and isn’t too happy when Matt arrives to challenge him on it. - Episode 4E4
Episode 4Steph McGovern, Matt Allwright and Nikki Fox return with the nation’s leading consumer series, live from Salford, revealing how thousands of people are paying the price for a mistake that the big name responsible denied would ever affect them. Plus, how fresh is your supermarket chicken? Lab tests reveal surprising results. And in Rogue Traders, the firm fleecing wannabe models - promising a way into the industry that they never deliver. - Episode 5E5
Episode 5Matt Allwright, Steph McGovern and Nikki Fox expose more big names letting viewers down, revealing which of the major banks is most likely to pin the blame on you if you are taken in by a fraud – even if it has left you thousands of pounds out of pocket. Can it be trusted to keep your money safe from scammers? The team hear from customers of collapsed energy companies left high, dry and out of pocket despite promises they would be kept safe. And in Rogue Traders, a wedding planner who couples say has made their big day memorable for all the wrong reasons.