On Fri, 30 May 2008 13:43:22 +0100, stuart noble wrote:

But it would cost too much (mainly because of the celebrity's salary
demands probably).

Hasn't most of the discussion about this being saying that a "celebrity"
is the last person wanted or needed to front the show. What is needed is
some one vaguely presentable and who can talk knowledgeably and
articulately about their favorite subject whilst getting their hands
dirty.

Sacha has some good programme ideas. You could probably cycle round 4
basic genres in a month. 1st week small urban family garden, 2nd week
growing food be that garden or allotment, 3rd week "fashion" gardening,
4th week visit a big "country house" garden/estate. Trouble is without the
same formula every week you'd loose viewers as they'd "never know what was
going to be on".

But why limit this to traditional broadcast? Produce it and pop it on a
subscription website as a streaming download or sell a DVD. Take an advert
in BBC Gardeners World magazine to publicise it... That may even be a
better approach as you could target your 4 productions to your audience
better.

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Cheers
Dave.