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Poor judgment, BBC
On 14/05/2014 11:18, Sacha wrote:
On 2014-05-14 02:06:38 +0000, FrankB said: "Sacha" wrote in message ... As for the treatment of Alan Titchmarsh, words just fail me. I'm at a loss to understand how the BBC would - effectively - ditch a man who has spent his entire life in horticulture and worked hard and well for the BBC and humiliate him as they have. It beggars belief and I suspect the really knowledgeable in horticulture will feel the same. I cannot count the number of people we know who have stopped watching Gardener's World and who may well give up on the BBC presentation of Chelsea for all the same reasons. What a mess! On top of that, Monty Don's 'sidekick' knows little about gardening but her parents have a garden they open to the public. That being the case, I'm putting forward the names of all 3 of my children for next year's coverage. They know bugger all about gardening but not only do their olds have a garden, one of them owns a Nursery and this garden is open to the public every day 50 weeks of the year! They'd be a shoo-in on that basis! -- To be frank (I am) I've never been a fan of AT. I've always found him patronising and corny. I much prefer Monty Don as a tv gardening presenter even though I no longer enjoy GW.but that's more the format tham MD's fault. I believe he's probably just as knowledgeable about gardening as AT, even though he's not a qualified horticulturist. The series he did a few years ago on Italian gardens was good and I doubt AT could have pulled it off without driving me mad. The idea of having a woman presenter is obviously to 'sex up' the image of the Chelsea presentation and appeal more to the younger viewer. Sad, but that's what tv media is much about nowadays. The matter of which presenter one prefers is very much up to the individual but this isn't really about that. It's about the BBC's handling of the situation. They've recently made a big blunder over a Radio Devon presenter of 32 years' standing and this sort of treatment of respected figures does the Beeb no favours at all. No one seems to have taken into account AT having sold his image to B&Q, and after having him plastered over everything in their stores I'm not surprised that "Auntie has dropped him. Whilst Chelsea is a feast of flowers it's also the first event in the London "Season" so is the place to be seen by many who go there. They are more interested in knowing if the cameras caught them at the show than in a bunch of plants and a load of "Hicks from the sticks" who are crowding up the place. I speak as one who has been to Chelsea over 25 times and who has also exhibited there in the days when it was a show for nurserymen to display their skills rather than big business to employ "names" to design and build them a garden at almost any cost. The BBC would show 3 programmes from the show and no one cared who presented it as long as they got to see the plants. How about there being a competition each year where say 10 contestants a week present a 5 minute presentation on a garden of their choice, the viewers vote and the top 2 from each week go on to a series of semi finals then to a final where the winner gets to present Chelsea show on the Beeb. David@ a very sunny side of Swansea bay for 2 days now. |
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Martin wrote:
My Humax PVR finds them even when they are rescheduled, as long as the rescheduling appears on the EPD. Sadly, Humax cannot do both padding and Accurate Recording. Since AR data is not always available, I opt for padding. Chris -- Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK Plant amazing Acers. |
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Poor judgment, BBC
"Martin" wrote in message ... On Thu, 15 May 2014 13:04:51 +0100, Chris J Dixon wrote: Martin wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014 07:56:29 +0100, Chris J Dixon wrote: The Sunday times vary a bit, but it is usually 9:30, just after the GW repeat. You are right! AFAIR it was 8am when I looked a few weeks ago. Sporting coverage and other events often cause a shuffle, so I have to check the PVR setting every week. My Humax PVR finds them even when they are rescheduled, as long as the rescheduling appears on the EPD. Don't understand PVR and EPD, is it foreignspeak? As far as I know, Humax make soil sterilisers. Does this make it on topic? Ardmhor |
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Poor judgment, BBC
On 2014-05-15 21:25:41 +0000, David Hill said:
snip No one seems to have taken into account AT having sold his image to B&Q, and after having him plastered over everything in their stores I'm not surprised that "Auntie has dropped him. But they didn't drop him, David. If they had the B&Q 'excuse' might have been more understandable. What they asked him to do was play second fiddle when he had been first fiddle for years! It was a gross humiliation and a dreadful way to treat a popular and professional anchor man for a garden programme. Whilst Chelsea is a feast of flowers it's also the first event in the London "Season" so is the place to be seen by many who go there. They are more interested in knowing if the cameras caught them at the show than in a bunch of plants and a load of "Hicks from the sticks" who are crowding up the place. I speak as one who has been to Chelsea over 25 times and who has also exhibited there in the days when it was a show for nurserymen to display their skills rather than big business to employ "names" to design and build them a garden at almost any cost. I wish it would go back to the days when it was about the plants and with less emphasis on the designer gardens. The first time I went to Chelsea was about 40 years ago and it was an absolute revelation to see all those wonderful plants exhibited in the old marquee. Now, all the fuss seems to be about gardens with rusting metal pillars, slabs of concrete and gardens you need a lift to get into. Entertaining, perhaps but little to do with the gardening most people aspire to. In that respect, it's a bit like haute couture fashion. Little seen on the catwalk is ever likely to be seen on the pavement but it shows the skill and imagination of the designer. The BBC would show 3 programmes from the show and no one cared who presented it as long as they got to see the plants. How about there being a competition each year where say 10 contestants a week present a 5 minute presentation on a garden of their choice, the viewers vote and the top 2 from each week go on to a series of semi finals then to a final where the winner gets to present Chelsea show on the Beeb. David@ a very sunny side of Swansea bay for 2 days now. How about a tv series where a variety of NGS gardens is visited by a knowledgeable plantsman and horticulturist each week, who talks to the owners and to some of the visitors to the garden? Hundreds and hundreds of gardens open every year and yet this is entirely overlooked as one of the mainstays of interest in gardening at a level anyone can hope to reach. Huge gardens, middling gardens, tiny gardens all open for the NGS and it's a sort of distillation of British gardening. Someone is missing a trick not making an annual series out of that! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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Poor judgment, BBC
On 16/05/2014 10:55, Sacha wrote:
On 2014-05-15 21:25:41 +0000, David Hill said: snip No one seems to have taken into account AT having sold his image to B&Q, and after having him plastered over everything in their stores I'm not surprised that "Auntie has dropped him. But they didn't drop him, David. If they had the B&Q 'excuse' might have been more understandable. What they asked him to do was play second fiddle when he had been first fiddle for years! It was a gross humiliation and a dreadful way to treat a popular and professional anchor man for a garden programme. Whilst Chelsea is a feast of flowers it's also the first event in the London "Season" so is the place to be seen by many who go there. They are more interested in knowing if the cameras caught them at the show than in a bunch of plants and a load of "Hicks from the sticks" who are crowding up the place. I speak as one who has been to Chelsea over 25 times and who has also exhibited there in the days when it was a show for nurserymen to display their skills rather than big business to employ "names" to design and build them a garden at almost any cost. I wish it would go back to the days when it was about the plants and with less emphasis on the designer gardens. The first time I went to Chelsea was about 40 years ago and it was an absolute revelation to see all those wonderful plants exhibited in the old marquee. Now, all the fuss seems to be about gardens with rusting metal pillars, slabs of concrete and gardens you need a lift to get into. Entertaining, perhaps but little to do with the gardening most people aspire to. In that respect, it's a bit like haute couture fashion. Little seen on the catwalk is ever likely to be seen on the pavement but it shows the skill and imagination of the designer. The BBC would show 3 programmes from the show and no one cared who presented it as long as they got to see the plants. How about there being a competition each year where say 10 contestants a week present a 5 minute presentation on a garden of their choice, the viewers vote and the top 2 from each week go on to a series of semi finals then to a final where the winner gets to present Chelsea show on the Beeb. David@ a very sunny side of Swansea bay for 2 days now. How about a tv series where a variety of NGS gardens is visited by a knowledgeable plantsman and horticulturist each week, who talks to the owners and to some of the visitors to the garden? Hundreds and hundreds of gardens open every year and yet this is entirely overlooked as one of the mainstays of interest in gardening at a level anyone can hope to reach. Huge gardens, middling gardens, tiny gardens all open for the NGS and it's a sort of distillation of British gardening. Someone is missing a trick not making an annual series out of that! I seem to remember a series that ran for a few years where it featured gardens wishing to open under the NGS and the presenter helped the owners prepare the garden and you saw the assessment and then if accepted the open day as well, an interesting series. I believe it was called Open Gardens |
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Poor judgment, BBC
On 2014-05-16 16:53:55 +0000, Martin said:
On Fri, 16 May 2014 13:05:01 +0100, David Hill wrote: I seem to remember a series that ran for a few years where it featured gardens wishing to open under the NGS and the presenter helped the owners prepare the garden and you saw the assessment and then if accepted the open day as well, an interesting series. I believe it was called Open Gardens I have vague recollections of that too. The BBC have to move away from making every programme a competition. I was thinking of a format in which the presenter merely presented - not that awful fakery thing of them 'helping' to mow a hay meadow or calve a cow or plant a tree. ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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Poor judgment, BBC
On 16/05/2014 17:53, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2014 13:05:01 +0100, David Hill wrote: I seem to remember a series that ran for a few years where it featured gardens wishing to open under the NGS and the presenter helped the owners prepare the garden and you saw the assessment and then if accepted the open day as well, an interesting series. I believe it was called Open Gardens I have vague recollections of that too. Wasn't that presented by Carol Klein? Yes, I enjoyed that series too. It was interesting to see how the various NGS officials (a rather formidable bunch) assessed the various gardens. The BBC have to move away from making every programme a competition. Hear, hear, to that part. Yes, exactly what we keep saying, chez nous. Don't agree with previous comments up-thread about Monty on GW and the Chelsea programmes though. Some of us enjoy his style of presenting the programme and have no beef about whether or not he's got paper qualifications or had recognized training in horticulture. Neither do lots of other very experienced, well known gardeners and growers but they've learned by years of experience and hands-on growing and so has he. I for one don't particularly like Alan Titchmarsh as a presenter and am glad he's not fronting Chelsea coverage this time. He may well have loads of impeccable gardening credentials but for me he comes across as far too smarmy and self satisfied with all that name-dropping, pretentious literary quoting and general air of smugness. But another vote here for Beechgrove which I like to record for later watching. It's a completely different style and format from GW which is all to the good and it's been even better since Chris Beardshaw joined. The more coverage gardens and gardening gets on the old box, the better I like it. -- Sue |
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Poor judgment, BBC
On 16/05/2014 18:10, sacha wrote:
not that awful fakery thing of them 'helping' to mow a hay meadow or calve a cow or plant a tree. ;-) Very impressive when they use a chainsaw for the calving though -- regards andy |
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Poor judgment, BBC
On 19/05/2014 08:26, News wrote:
On 16/05/2014 18:10, sacha wrote: not that awful fakery thing of them 'helping' to mow a hay meadow or calve a cow or plant a tree. ;-) Very impressive when they use a chainsaw for the calving though -- regards andy That must be a modern version of a calving knife |
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Poor judgment, BBC
"David Hill" wrote in message ...
On 19/05/2014 08:26, News wrote: On 16/05/2014 18:10, sacha wrote: not that awful fakery thing of them 'helping' to mow a hay meadow or calve a cow or plant a tree. ;-) Very impressive when they use a chainsaw for the calving though -- regards andy That must be a modern version of a calving knife ============================================= For Roast Beef? Mike --------------------------------------------------------------- www.friendsofshanklintheatre.co.uk |
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Poor judgment, BBC
News wrote:
On 16/05/2014 18:10, sacha wrote: not that awful fakery thing of them 'helping' to mow a hay meadow or calve a cow or plant a tree. ;-) Very impressive when they use a chainsaw for the calving though Been watching Damien Hirst? Chris -- Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK Plant amazing Acers. |
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