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This happens year after year, too consistently to be accidental. Also,
much of the material that is shown is usually repeated. We see the same
few gardens over and over again, and many gardens and much of the
pavilion are never shown. Does anyone know if this is just down to ease
of camera positioning, or if the coverage is limited in some way in the
contract with the BBC?

Modern outside-broadcast (OB)crews consists of one or at most two
people on foot with a small camera on the shoulder. In other words,
there's nowhere at Chelsea which the BBC camera could not have physical
access to.So the reason each presenter keeps harping on the same garden,
is not production limitations.

I was gobsmacked that the BBC permitted Alan Titchmarsh and Diarmuid
Decongestant, to blatantly advertise their respective tailors. That kind
of prime-time, fame-associated TV exposure is worth a fortune to
brandnames. It's a far cry from the days when the BBC blanked out the
brand-name on the detergent bottle or yoghurt pot the Blue Peter
presenters were making into a birdfeeder or space rocket.

It does make one wonder about who influences production and editing
decisions at BBC Chelsea, and what motivates them.


Janet. (Married to ex-BBC broadcast engineer)