Except that the Beechgrove garden has been designed and tended as a TV show garden covering all the different kinds of things you can expect to do and grow in Scotland apart from the bits with the balmy Gulf Stream influence which Aberdeen clearly doesn't have and can't replicate.
It can be kept relevant and practical with its trials and advice and help for beginners and gardeners with awkward corners as long as they don't go all gimmicky and stupid like GW with Toby.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I, too, watch record it on Sunday morning. Although I live miles away from Scotland, in the South West, I still find it informative and useful. It's also very down to earth.
Mar 2018: After an internal review at the corporation, public spending watchdog the National Audit Office yesterday said the BBC could “retire old formats” [DE]
And that was about GW, considered the flagship programme. Maybe they've thrown Beechgrove under the bus to save their own behinds?
Then gardening content replaced -if at all - with some ghastly vote out show, yet another makeover show or celebrity gardening island?
The Beechgrove programme is outsourced to Tern, a production company. I suspect they're the same people who used to do GW before it was taken back in house when MD took over and we had Berryfields and then Greenthingy and now MD's garden.
I can't imagine why the Beeb in Scotland is wanting to kill off Beechgrove as it is well loved by its Scottish audience and, now that we've been getting it on Beeb 2 on Sundays, much loved in the rest of the UK too and far more practical and informative about when, where, how and what with proper trials too.
Tern is an Aberdeen-Glasgow-Belfast company. It's not a big place in Aberdeen and the BBC in Scotland tend to be very Central-belt (M8 corridor) oriented. They probably view it as a PITA that the gardens aren't in Glasgow
I think Tern might have done Landward as well, a farming / country programme. I worked with Landward crew - years ago though. I'm not sure if that's still going as other than Beechgrove I try* not to watch Scottish content, including the news [particularly the news as it really gets my back up when they introduce the wurruld news]. Or rather tried as I gave away my television in 2012. The BBC have too many channels, have spread themselves too thin and the quality of programming has suffered. Same with the other side(s).
I think ratings are still measured with the set top boxes. Whether people who accept to be monitored are a representative sample or if it takes into account iPlayer and less than official nodes of watching is unclear to me.
With GW unwatchable the last year or so I'm extremely saddened to see Beechgrove being messed with.
Landward is brilliant, and still going - they show it on the normal BBC1 Scotland channel as well as the other one, which seems weird. It's a far better programme than Beechgrove IMO, but of course, isn't a gardening show. I still say, in it's present guise without Jim, Beechgrove was always going to struggle. Whether the powers that be see that as a blessing or a curse remains to be seen.
'not very British' @barry island. That's a pretty ludicrous statement when you consider how London centric so much TV is.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I used to love Beechgrove and I think Jim was a massive part of that. I have not enjoyed the current series at all. It seems they don't know who their audience is. I hope it can be saved, but i think it is unlikely.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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It can be kept relevant and practical with its trials and advice and help for beginners and gardeners with awkward corners as long as they don't go all gimmicky and stupid like GW with Toby.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/07/bbc-denies-dumbing-traditional-programmes-face-axe/
Mar 2018:
After an internal review at the corporation, public spending watchdog the National Audit Office yesterday said the BBC could “retire old formats” [DE]
And that was about GW, considered the flagship programme.
Maybe they've thrown Beechgrove under the bus to save their own behinds?
Then gardening content replaced -if at all - with some ghastly vote out show, yet another makeover show or celebrity gardening island?
I think Tern might have done Landward as well, a farming / country programme. I worked with Landward crew - years ago though. I'm not sure if that's still going as other than Beechgrove I try* not to watch Scottish content, including the news [particularly the news as it really gets my back up when they introduce the wurruld news]. Or rather tried as I gave away my television in 2012.
The BBC have too many channels, have spread themselves too thin and the quality of programming has suffered. Same with the other side(s).
I think ratings are still measured with the set top boxes. Whether people who accept to be monitored are a representative sample or if it takes into account iPlayer and less than official nodes of watching is unclear to me.
With GW unwatchable the last year or so I'm extremely saddened to see Beechgrove being messed with.
I still say, in it's present guise without Jim, Beechgrove was always going to struggle. Whether the powers that be see that as a blessing or a curse remains to be seen.
'not very British' @barry island. That's a pretty ludicrous statement when you consider how London centric so much TV is.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have not enjoyed the current series at all. It seems they don't know who their audience is.
I hope it can be saved, but i think it is unlikely.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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