TV Career
In  1996 a chance meeting with a TV producer at a barbecue lead to his first TV appearance, a two part documentary for the BBC made about David dickinson and his preparation for a show at Olympia.
David Dickinson’s television career is now well established and is thriving fourteen  years later.  He now presents a the weekday show ‘Dickinson’s Real Deal’, which he has also taken to a prime slot, hosts his own chat show on ITV1 ‘The David Dickinson Show’ and appears on many of TV’s favourite panel and game shows. He hosted the highly successful Bargain Hunt for BBC1,  for which he collected the National Television Award for  'Most Popular Daytime Programme' and took Bargain Hunt to further heights of success when it's prime time editions  bagged 7.5 million viewers on BBC1. David Dickinson has been honoured to be the subject of This is Your Life and the chat show Parkinson, his story was told in Series 3 of Who Do You Think You Are. He has taken part in the nation's favourite TV reality shows including I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here and Strictly Come Dancing.
You can read more about David's many and varied TV appearances in our TV Appearances pages.

17 May 2010 saw the launch of David Dickinson's very own afternoon chat show -The David Dickinson Show on ITV1.
It ran for two weeks with a one hour show per weekday. A huge success the show was appluaded by TV Producers and public alike.

Through 2011 David Dickinson will continue to film his hit series 'Dickinson's Real Deal 'and will be found hosting dealer days and attending auctions up and down England and Wales.