In message et, Dave
Liquorice wrote
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.

A celebrity is exactly the right kind of person for the show. You only
have to listen to a gardening show on the radio to see that the
'experts' rarely agree on anything so having a show presented by one of
these would be biased towards one point of view. Having someone who
knows little about gardening means that you will get a program with many
'guests' and with the presenter asking the kind of searching questions
that the average punter would ask such as: "Why does every garden centre
only have plants that are in flower when they should have plants that
reach their peak when the customer has planted them at home"?


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