Viewers raging as their Sunday night is ‘ruined’ due to show’s last-minute cancellation 

Antiques Roadshow fans were left raging last night after the programme was cancelled at the last minute.

The classic BBC show, which is presented by Fiona Bruce, was cut at the last minute due to changes in schedule because of the football.

The news was confirmed by the announcer just after 8pm, when the show usually airs, with the BBC saying: ‘Due to the excitement of the football, we’ve a change to our schedule.

‘No Antiques Roadshow and later than billed, our Changing Planet.’

However many fans were unhappy about the change to the schedule, with one person commenting: ‘Today’s emergency alert was to notify us all that today’s episode of the Antique’s Roadshow has been cancelled.’

Meanwhile another wrote: ‘Where is Antiques Roadshow? I’ve got Her Majesty here.’

A third added: ‘Antiques Roadshow cancelled tonight because the football overrann! Fuming! My Sunday is ruined!!’

A fourth wrote: ‘The BBC has literally ruined my week by taking Antiques Roadshow off the schedule for tonight.

‘Shame on you!’ 

Another added: ‘BBC1 has cancelled Antiques Roadshow tonight? Governments have been overthrown for less.’ 

The schedule was altered after the kick-off between Brighton & Hove Albion and Manchester United started at 4:30pm.

Many fans of the show were left fuming over the change of schedule, and said their Sunday evening had been ‘ruined’ 

Following the second semi-final at Wembley Stadium, Gary Lineker then presented Match Of The Day to discuss all the action from the pitch.

The cancellation comes weeks after the Queen Consort charmed Antiques Roadshow as she appeared on the programme.

Filmed in Cornwall at the Eden Project last September, shortly before the late Queen’s death on September 8 – when Camilla, 75, was still the Duchess of Cornwall, the  episode saw the royal browsing the antiques brought in by local residents, and marvelling at the Eden Project’s horticultural splendour.

For the occasion, Camilla brought along a rare snuffbox from the Royal Collection made from Cornish silver and a copy of Elegy In A Country Churchyard by poet Thomas Gray to be examined.

Wearing an elegant green leaf patterned dress, the Queen Consort also joined host Fiona Bruce in a Guess The Mystery Object game.

The schedule was altered after the kick-off between Brighton & Hove Albion and Manchester United started at 4:30pm

During her appearance, she said she has long been a fan of the BBC programme, adding: ‘I have watched forever and ever and ever.

‘It’s my Sunday evening treat.’

Earlier this month, one Antiques Roadshow guest was left in shock after discovering an inherited brooch was worth an eye-watering amount.

On Easter Sunday’s episode of the BBC show, the woman presented the heirloom, which had been encrusted with diamonds and rubies.

Expert Geoffrey Munn couldn’t believe his eyes as he assessed its worth, much to the surprise of the crowd.

The guest explained: ‘It’s a brooch I inherited via my mother from my great aunt.

‘They come from Silesia, which is today southern Poland, and they had to flee from the Russians during the end of the war, and they made it over to west Germany.

‘She was cook and housekeeper to Prince Ernst August of Hanover for 37 years.’

The jeweller said: ‘This is a very typical gift from a royal personage, there’s no question at all.’

It was clear the hopeful had done her homework, as she continued, ‘It’s Russian and it’s got a 56 kokoshnik mark, I believe, which is 14 carat gold.

‘And it’s got an assayer’s mark of Ivan Lebetkin in Moscow between 1899 and 1908.’

The valuer identified the brooch as being typical of ‘pre-revolutionary Russian style’, but neither of them could be sure whose design it was.

Having suspected it could’ve been made by Karl Faberge, he determined it was produced by a competitor since it didn’t have a maker’s mark

After admitting this would make the heirloom ‘not as sweet financially’, he estimated its worth at between £7,000 and £8,000.