Like many others I am very disappointed. It's not that I don't like Monty - I do! Simply that it's typical of the BBC to keep wasting money, chopping and changing. The team were settled in nicely, viewers were waiting to see the results of projects started in the last series, but no, they're throwing all that away to go backwards into Monty's garden. I sincerely hope that another channel will sign up Toby and Alys (and maybe Greenacre) and provide a viable alternative gardening programme. And as for Rachel - well I guess her presence will give the 'old codger' viewers something to look at.
I've just received my latest Gardeners World magazine for February and I can hardly believe that a gardening mag could make me quite so angry. Not only have we lost Toby and Alys from TV we now have them obliterated from the magazine. I've read Monty's eulogy to returning to the TV show and its accompanying salary and development of his gardens on BBC expenses, but could the man not find it in himself to offer a few words of condolence to Toby and Alys? The smug photo of "The Housewives Choice" with his faded craggy looks isn't gardening; can I not now enjoy my magazine as well as the show! Gardeners World what have you done?
What fantastic news. Gardeners World has not been the same since Monty left. I can't wait for the new series, my eyes will be glued to the TV every Friday evening. Welcome back Monty.
I am pleased that Alys and Toby have gone as they changed the feel of the programme, I also agree with previous comments thay say they were very irritating to watch. Gardeners World was just not the same. Well Done the BBC
That smug photo and his appalling lack of grace (as well as his yawning absence of knowledge)has lost GW mag and the programme another customer and viewer.I am outraged that the BBC can support the aging fantasties of middleaged women by paying this gardening fraud licence payers money to bore us silly and refurbish his private garden. I hope the programme is the flop it deserves to be now you have taken away the best thing that happened since the beloved Geoff Hamilton died. The treatment that has been given to Toby and Alys is shameful and I can only hope that the BBC staff who have done this will one day find themselves being booted out in such an unpleasant way.Shame on you all. History always catches people up.
I'm very disappointed to see that Gardener's World has decided to go backwards. I loved watching Toby and Alys and feel the return to Monty is a real retrograde step. We need younger people like Toby and Alys to make gardening fun. Monty is far too academic and, frankly, very dull. Why is the BBC always returning to the past. I'm a new gardener and looked forward to hearing the basics.
Forgot to say, I find Carol's gasping, excited style of presenting increasingly irritating too.... Having been a loyal viewer, I shall no longer be tuning in on Friday nights.... BRING BACK TOBY and ALYS.
When I received my Gardeners World Magazine today, I was absolutely delighted to read that Monty is returning to the Friday night programme-along with the familiar team.I- along with many more- have really missed Monty, Berryfields and the practical, productive and solid, comforting approach to what so many of us aim for in our gardens.Monty, Alan T.-and Carol- have inspired so many people to "get out and into the soil"!Welcome back!
watched and recorded fork to fork when it first came on and found that it was a good "green" programme.Monty it`s great you are coming back especially when our government is telling us we should compost,compost,compost and recycle.perhaps you might find a slot on this new series to show us how to start a homemade wormery?
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lets hope they come back to our screens soon.
The treatment that has been given to Toby and Alys is shameful and I can only hope that the BBC staff who have done this will one day find themselves being booted out in such an unpleasant way.Shame on you all. History always catches people up.