On 27/5/04 18:13, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough.." wrote:

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"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in
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To me their dedicated plant-obsession was the epitome of what Chelsea
used to be all about, but has mostly lost since the Bunny'n'Diarmuid
set
started cultivating meeja careers.

Janet.

I tend to agree that there's too much focus on the show gardens, but
from what I can see the BBC is trying to emphasise a different part of
the show on each programme - there was much more about plants last night
than on previous shows.

Still not enough, though :-)

(Let's just assume for a lovely moment that the BBC research dept
takes urg seriously as a barometer of public reaction; and anyway I've
just laid down tools to cook..long hot fab day here).

I'm pleased that at long last, the BBC is devoting consecutive
evenings of primetime to Chelsea-week coverage; what's not great is the
dumb-it-down accommodation for viewers who aren't remotely interested in
plants or gardens. It's completely inconceivable that similar TV
coverage of any other interest or event would make endless references to
the presenter breastfeeding her baby or who designed the presenters'
clothes. To gardeners, it does not make a water-garden "interesting" to
see a presenter paddling in it. And so far as I am concerned, Chelsea
coverage is the very last place to feature the crashingly dull home
garden of breakfast-TV meeja wannabees.

The programme director should be ashamed to waste endless screen time
on computer-generated pastel dissolves loosely based on a plant, AND
endless references to cod digital-viewer "participation", whilst
ignoring the elementary technical step of providing all viewers with a
screen subtitle name every time a real plant is shown on camera.

Whenever a presenter is lisping or smirking his/her way through an
auto-cue telling viewers all about a garden or plant they have seen, I
would prefer the camera shot to be on the garden or plant, not the
presenter. A voiceover would be more than enough from most presenters.

There. I'm off to the kitchen now.


A Gold Medal for you, Janet. I'm sick of the whole boiling lot of those
smirking faces, all of whom appear to be presenting at Chelsea with a view
to book royalties or some such - anything but getting some plants shown and
plant names on the screen.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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