"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"michael" wrote...
I cant avoid watching Gardeners World,since it seems part of our
Friday evening ritual.However,last night the programme was
awful.Making raised beds using a curved design,and requiring
individual timber pieces was just ridiculous.Also the silly 30 min
tasks got sillier this week with trying to make roof gardens over
sheds and guinea pig hutchs.In the spice bed plants were thrown in at
random,with few described.The only interesting thing was the sowing of
green seed for the propagating of primroses,but since primroses seed
themselves naturally,even this was hardly worth it.
The content now is awful,and I am afraid to say that I think the
series should be pulled.

I agree. The show has always been something to look forward to, but now I
somehow feel short-changed and somewhat "embarrassed" to see how much the
quality has deteriorated.
With this format of creating a new garden on this huge virgin site there is
now no sense of connection with the reality of normal average gardens. In
previous series the average viewer would not have given a thought to who
does all the real gardening work, but now it yells out that there must be an
army of unseen gardeners in the background and the presenters are just
front-of-stage stooges. The format is now more "showbizzy" and shallow and
"anything for a laugh" and for me the main problem is that the three
presenters just don't mix together well as team personalities. I get the
impression that they irritate each other and there is an undercurrent of
resentment.
Carol Klien wanted the top job, I read somewhere, and now stays away from
this new project. Alyse is over-promoted into a presenter role and one can
almost hear her teeth grate when Toby does his Happy-chirpy-chipmunk teasing
act......she doesn't like it, poor lass. And Joe doesn't have the respect
for Toby as he used to have for the predecessors, Titchmarsh and Hamilton.
Joes weirdly shaped allotment is a space-wasting joke and he is just not
competent to lecture anyone on veg growing.
I know its not possible to please all the people all of the time and there
will always be aspects of shows that irritate......mine is when they try to
create a rain forest with huge rampant densely packed plantings in a 10 foot
square......but perhaps My overall criticism is that the new format is
sufficiently mature, its too juvenile and, dare I say, juvenile.

vsop