On 23/5/07 08:46, in article , "Stan The
Man" wrote:
In article , Sacha
wrote:
On 22/5/07 20:46, in article
, "Kate Morgan"
wrote:
The program didn't do it for me but maybe it will be better tonight,
cannot
quite put my finger on the reason, have to admit to falling asleep in the
middle and missing some, shouldn't blame the prog. for that I suppose. I
did
see some brilliant iris but did not catch the name of them, must look
more
carefully tonight.
kate
I regret to say that we both nodded off for a few minutes at some point.
I
don't know what it was about the programme - it was just rather flat and
seemed to be to be rather choppy in its format.
--
Sacha
I am so glad that I was not alone in sleeping :-)
kate
Happened again this evening.... Somehow, this year's coverage just isn't
grabbing our attention. I awoke to Chris Beardshaw waxing eloquent and
enthusiastic about grasses and gave up!
I wish I knew enough to figure out what's happening. Is it the presenters -
doubt it because not many changes there - is it the format?
I think it's the script. A bit too contrived, too banal and a bit too
"humorous". Presenters are spending too much time "laughing" at each
other's wisecracks. There is also too much forced/false "excitement".
That's the sort of idiotic thing they were doing a couple of years ago when
a lot of people, including many urglers, complained to both the RHS and BBC.
It was too much about the presenters and not enough about the designers,
nuserymen and plants. We had miles of AT and DG and others all gurning at
each other and falling over laughing at how clever they are. Monty Don has
written in an article that it's the thing he hates about GW - that bit at
the end when they all get together and have to be 'jolly' with each other.
It's so fake and so contrived that it's like watching a sort of muddy Blue
Peter.
I wonder if any of the presenters will admit on air to be being
mystified about the RHS' choice for Best Garden... Huge areas without
any plants and totally irrelevant to anyone imho. And sponsored by one
of the main competitors to the overall Chelsea sponsor -- made me
wonder if the RHS had had a falling out with Marshalls and wanted to
give them a smack around the ear.
OTOH, if Bradstone had won, we'd all be saying 'stitch up'. ;-)
--
Sacha
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