Yes folks it takes all kinds of people to populate this world and luckily we are not all alike in wanting the same things. To a lot of those watching GW it will only be a show to some a learning curve to others "Oh not that again" as they say "you can please some of the people etc." As an old time gardener I watch for the excursions to places I can no longer visit, other peoples gardens, Carol's adventures with strangers gardens, and Monty's garden which has changed over the years. If we got what only we want to see it would be a turn off for many others and lets face it BBC has to please an audience of many tastes not just a few of us. I like to see the dogs even Carol's cats though cats and I do not see eye to eye. The mix is normally interesting and it has to be edited to fit a set time as one gardener said to plant a shrub on TV took six holes for camera angles and the shrub went in four times, do we really want to see that?
I sit back and enjoy, no point in making remarks about it apart from seeing something you know to be wrong, now the decking and concrete years are well and truly over gardening as I knew it is coming back, people getting a taste for home grown food. The needs of people venturing into growing their own need to learn and Monty does teach from bottom up, we had our Fathers to teach us many moderns only ever saw a lawn, to me GW does a good job and by the way I love Countryfile as I came from farming stock, OK some of us are easily pleased.
Quite right. And as long as the programme caters for all kinds I don't mind skating over the bits that aren't 'for me'. What I don't like - and hope very much they won't do - is when they take out all the slightly more esoteric bits and only have the bits for people who like to watch and don't do in order to get maximum viewing figures. Keep it broad and it'll be fine.
Fingers crossed
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Kitty, don't get me wrong . I thought the two judges were lovely people, but I just felt that almost all challenges were off the scale of what the average allotment holder would do.
Why nothing simple like a veg soup or a fruit tart? ( after showing us how the contestants produced said fruit and veg?
With an hour to fill, there are bound to be certain topics that won't appeal to everyone - just as Bake Off will cover recipes that don't appeal to us all - you can dip in and out - and that is what is so enjoyable about these programmes. They keep you enthralled, then cover a topic that you know inside out and will bore you, but as long as it is interesting, educating us and well presented we should be grateful that at last the BBC have listened to us and have acted on our requests for more gardening programmes.
I shall watch the programme, and reserve full judgement until afterwards. However, I make the following observation: the remit of this new, up-graded, one-hour GW is, apparently, designed to attract a younger audience. Hmmmm. I don't see too many younger people stopping in on a Friday night to watch a programme that has been around since their granddads' day! They are much more likely to be down the pub/clubbing/dining out with friends/watching something on Netflix etc.
It won't matter who they draft in to present it, how whacky the subjects are treated (assuming that they can remember and don't repeat the disaster of a few years back) - their desired audience is unlikely to be watching.
I reserve final judgement - but the omens are not good imo.
I was really happy about it until I read that article mr swann posted. That doesn't sound like 'listening to us about wanting more gardening programmes', that sounds like 'trying to justify the license fee by getting the ratings up'.
But I will reserve judgement until I've seen it, promise
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Yes folks it takes all kinds of people to populate this world and luckily we are not all alike in wanting the same things. To a lot of those watching GW it will only be a show to some a learning curve to others "Oh not that again" as they say "you can please some of the people etc." As an old time gardener I watch for the excursions to places I can no longer visit, other peoples gardens, Carol's adventures with strangers gardens, and Monty's garden which has changed over the years. If we got what only we want to see it would be a turn off for many others and lets face it BBC has to please an audience of many tastes not just a few of us. I like to see the dogs even Carol's cats though cats and I do not see eye to eye. The mix is normally interesting and it has to be edited to fit a set time as one gardener said to plant a shrub on TV took six holes for camera angles and the shrub went in four times, do we really want to see that?
I sit back and enjoy, no point in making remarks about it apart from seeing something you know to be wrong, now the decking and concrete years are well and truly over gardening as I knew it is coming back, people getting a taste for home grown food. The needs of people venturing into growing their own need to learn and Monty does teach from bottom up, we had our Fathers to teach us many moderns only ever saw a lawn, to me GW does a good job and by the way I love Countryfile as I came from farming stock, OK some of us are easily pleased.
Frank.
Allotment challenge was a competition Hosta
BBC has made many shows in the same template with different subjects. Bake off, sewing bee, the hairdressing one, pottery throw down........
Kitty, I know.
Bake off is a competition too and I love it. I also loved Sewing bee and watched some of the hairdressing one too.
I'd have liked to have seen more growing and less flower arranging / cooking.
I think, and it's only my humble opinion, that virtually no allotmenteers I've ever met have ever adorned a candleabrum with flowers.
Seeing Thane mulling over the contents of her mouth made me fill bilious.
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Quite right. And as long as the programme caters for all kinds I don't mind skating over the bits that aren't 'for me'. What I don't like - and hope very much they won't do - is when they take out all the slightly more esoteric bits and only have the bits for people who like to watch and don't do in order to get maximum viewing figures. Keep it broad and it'll be fine.
Fingers crossed
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Hosta
I cringed with every spoonful too.
Kitty, don't get me wrong . I thought the two judges were lovely people, but I just felt that almost all challenges were off the scale of what the average allotment holder would do.
Why nothing simple like a veg soup or a fruit tart? ( after showing us how the contestants produced said fruit and veg?
With an hour to fill, there are bound to be certain topics that won't appeal to everyone - just as Bake Off will cover recipes that don't appeal to us all - you can dip in and out - and that is what is so enjoyable about these programmes. They keep you enthralled, then cover a topic that you know inside out and will bore you, but as long as it is interesting, educating us and well presented we should be grateful that at last the BBC have listened to us and have acted on our requests for more gardening programmes.
I shall watch the programme, and reserve full judgement until afterwards. However, I make the following observation: the remit of this new, up-graded, one-hour GW is, apparently, designed to attract a younger audience. Hmmmm. I don't see too many younger people stopping in on a Friday night to watch a programme that has been around since their granddads' day! They are much more likely to be down the pub/clubbing/dining out with friends/watching something on Netflix etc.
It won't matter who they draft in to present it, how whacky the subjects are treated (assuming that they can remember and don't repeat the disaster of a few years back) - their desired audience is unlikely to be watching.
I reserve final judgement - but the omens are not good imo.
I was really happy about it until I read that article mr swann posted. That doesn't sound like 'listening to us about wanting more gardening programmes', that sounds like 'trying to justify the license fee by getting the ratings up'.
But I will reserve judgement until I've seen it, promise
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”