How we verify a status
A directory like this is only worth reading if you can trust the word next to each business. Here is exactly how we decide what to put there.
What the statuses mean
- Open. The business is still trading today under the name it used on the show, or a lightly restyled version of it.
- Closed. The business has shut for good. Where we can, we record the year and what took over the space.
- Renamed. The business survived but now trades under a different name, usually after new ownership.
- Relocated. The business moved from its original address and reopened somewhere else.
- Sold. Ownership changed hands, most relevant for the hotels and estates.
- Unverified. We could not find a reliable current signal either way. We would rather say so than guess.
Where the facts come from
Episode details come from primary sources: published episode lists, the networks' own listings, and public television databases. Current status comes from the strongest independent evidence we can find, in roughly this order of preference: the business's own website and booking pages, official social accounts with recent activity, local news reporting, and public records such as company dissolution filings.
We do not treat other rescue-show fan trackers as evidence. If a claim traces back only to one of those aggregators, it does not meet our bar, and the listing stays unverified until we find a real source. Every status we publish carries the date we last checked it.
Confidence and honesty
Not every fact is equally solid. A live booking system on a venue's own website is strong evidence. A single retrospective article is weaker. We note our confidence, and where the trail runs cold we mark the listing unverified rather than round up to a clean answer. If the only honest thing to report is the last date the business was confirmed operating, that is what we report.
Corrections
Businesses reopen, close, and change hands, and we will get some calls wrong. If you have first-hand knowledge that a listing is out of date, tell us and point us at something we can check. We update the status and the check date when we confirm it. This page and the dated checks are the whole point: a status you can audit, not a rumor.