Just adding my voice and agree that it is so disappointing that GW has been given the heave-ho because of sport. I have been watching the programme for over 30 years and it still has the ability to inspire me and to hunt down a plant that has been featured. I feel it's the dumbing down of gardening programes on TV, which I hope I am wrong about. As for ITV's new gardening prog with the lovely Alan, no thanks, not for me!
There is nothing quite like settling down on a Friday night with a G&T and getting my fix of GW. Get your act together BBC and stop messing with your viewers!!
As you imply, lazy gardener, no-one's going to die because GW is suspended, but to say that people shouldn't complain or comment is rather defeatist and more than a touch cynical. Are we supposed to let the producers, the politicians, the fat cats, the zealots and the dictators get away unchallenged with any arbitrary and unjustified decision they care to make? Not my world!
I don't think I said don't comment or complain did I?-just trying to get over the futility of it all that was the point I was trying to make-didn't expect to be told off for voicing an opinion
There is nothing quite like settling down on a Friday night with a G&T and getting my fix of GW. Get your act together BBC and stop messing with your viewers!!
i am exactly the same.. (thou wine) god forbid anyone who interupts me while watching it..
What a disapointment to have GW back and then snatched away again so soon. Unfair BBC, a measley half hr a week is hardly taxing on your schedule. This series is so much better than last year and most of us are starting to get more from Monty's garden now that we know it better. It is only a short programme after all and I really feel as if some of the items from other gardener's is squeezed in and rushed through. Come on Auntie B, not only should you not take it away from us gardeners but you should give us a longer prog.
I do think that the Chelsea Show coverage is a bit dragged out and this year thought there was alot of repetition, I would forego so many hrs of CFS in exchange for a longer GW.
If viewers are unhappy do complain the more moans the more attention they might give us folk.
It's coming the end of this year's series but we get an additional weekly gardening fix by watching Anns a' Gharradh. It obviously doesn't have a large production budget but the presenters' enthusiasm is a joy, as are the gardens/gardeners they visit and the local scenary. Don't be put off it being in Gaelic - there are unobtrusive subtitles and some of the articles are in English.
PS we could never understand why UKTV Gardens channel was taken off air.
I'm not telling you off lazy-g, but are you then saying: 'Complain all you like, but it's futile'? That's not the way we've made progress - where's the spirit of Mandela?
Of course in all this we don't know the deal with the presenters-perhaps they are only contracted to do so many hours of tv-or they may have other tv or outside projects on-those Italian Garden type programmes must take a lot of time.
I doubt that GW is only the source of income- otherwise how do they earn in the winter?
Agree sotongeoff but I am sure presenters will always be happy to do more as they prob have less to do in winter. One of the great things about seeing different gardeners is they all have different angles so it is always interesting to listen to them.I think they probably just do not get the opportunity. Perhaps the Beeb could think about putting the programme on a Sat or Sun morning, at least it could be recorded then. I just do not think the schedulers think it matters. Perhaps we gardeners are not a majority. And yes, what did happen to UKTV Garden, it may not have always been very dynamic but at least it was there and it could have been improved on.
I was wondering the same, after all it is being filmed in a private garden and perhaps it's to give Monty a break to get on with other things in his life.
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Just adding my voice and agree that it is so disappointing that GW has been given the heave-ho because of sport. I have been watching the programme for over 30 years and it still has the ability to inspire me and to hunt down a plant that has been featured. I feel it's the dumbing down of gardening programes on TV, which I hope I am wrong about. As for ITV's new gardening prog with the lovely Alan, no thanks, not for me!
There is nothing quite like settling down on a Friday night with a G&T and getting my fix of GW. Get your act together BBC and stop messing with your viewers!!
I don't think I said don't comment or complain did I?-just trying to get over the futility of it all that was the point I was trying to make-didn't expect to be told off for voicing an opinion
There is nothing quite like settling down on a Friday night with a G&T and getting my fix of GW. Get your act together BBC and stop messing with your viewers!!
i am exactly the same.. (thou wine) god forbid anyone who interupts me while watching it..
What a disapointment to have GW back and then snatched away again so soon. Unfair BBC, a measley half hr a week is hardly taxing on your schedule. This series is so much better than last year and most of us are starting to get more from Monty's garden now that we know it better. It is only a short programme after all and I really feel as if some of the items from other gardener's is squeezed in and rushed through. Come on Auntie B, not only should you not take it away from us gardeners but you should give us a longer prog.
I do think that the Chelsea Show coverage is a bit dragged out and this year thought there was alot of repetition, I would forego so many hrs of CFS in exchange for a longer GW.
If viewers are unhappy do complain the more moans the more attention they might give us folk.
It's coming the end of this year's series but we get an additional weekly gardening fix by watching Anns a' Gharradh. It obviously doesn't have a large production budget but the presenters' enthusiasm is a joy, as are the gardens/gardeners they visit and the local scenary. Don't be put off it being in Gaelic - there are unobtrusive subtitles and some of the articles are in English.
PS we could never understand why UKTV Gardens channel was taken off air.
I'm not telling you off lazy-g, but are you then saying: 'Complain all you like, but it's futile'? That's not the way we've made progress - where's the spirit of Mandela?
Why could'nt it be shown on the BBC HD channel or by pushing the red button?
Of course in all this we don't know the deal with the presenters-perhaps they are only contracted to do so many hours of tv-or they may have other tv or outside projects on-those Italian Garden type programmes must take a lot of time.
I doubt that GW is only the source of income- otherwise how do they earn in the winter?
Agree sotongeoff but I am sure presenters will always be happy to do more as they prob have less to do in winter. One of the great things about seeing different gardeners is they all have different angles so it is always interesting to listen to them.I think they probably just do not get the opportunity. Perhaps the Beeb could think about putting the programme on a Sat or Sun morning, at least it could be recorded then. I just do not think the schedulers think it matters. Perhaps we gardeners are not a majority. And yes, what did happen to UKTV Garden, it may not have always been very dynamic but at least it was there and it could have been improved on.
I was wondering the same, after all it is being filmed in a private garden and perhaps it's to give Monty a break to get on with other things in his life.