once Crockett left I couldnt stand any of the subsequent hosts. why the hell dont
they
1. rebroadcast Crockett's series and/or
2. find a woman in the mold of what's her name from that gardening show she would
soundly thump pots to get the plants in or out, she was messy, sorta the Julia Child
of plants. after all, most gardeners are women!!!

they need to find a host by doing a reality show format. have all the contestants
compete for who will be the show's host, with the viewers calling in to vote for
their favorite. because these guys on the victory garden really turned me off,
especially having somebody's wife cooking vegetarian everything and doing it in such
a smarmy way ... blech.

I dont know why I am so turned off since Crockett, whether it is they are talking
down to people, they entirely lack any humor, they just look sour, smarmy, they are
so obviously obsessed with organic, organic, organic. And they got this pretend
"hick" thing going with the Oshkosh by gosh bib overalls. Excuuuuuuuse me!!!

It really turned me off that they ran these "contests" where the people obviously DID
NOT do their own work. Well it is nice to have an unlimited supply of money to
construct and maintain fabulous gardens, but it does nothing for me at all ......
garden as competition as sign of conspicuous consumption just turned me off.

They need to do some demographics and find out who their viewers are, what the level
of "tastes" are and what they want to see.

Now it is very true that I have such a small garden area that most of what they are
going to offer isnt going to be of interest to me, but IF it is entertaining, then I
might watch. But not somebody pretending to be a hick, nobody treacle sweet or
smarmy either. Ingrid


On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:05:58 -0400, Bill R wrote:
PBS had a great program in the Victory Garden but, IMO they ruined it.
They need to go back to the good old days when they had great hosts and
spent their time on interesting gardening subjects.

"Australian TV personality Jamie Durie, a horticulturist with a checkered past: he is
a former member of the male stripper group Manpower Australia, and in 1994 he posed
nude for the art magazine Black+White alongside former fiancée Terasa Livingstone. It
has been publicly speculated in newspapers such as the Boston Herald (August 8, 2007)
that his selection as host for the abbreviated 2007 season (only 13 new episodes are
planned – down from more than 30 during Swain's tenure, and 26 during Weishan's) is a
risky attempt to revive the show's failing fortunes."