The Big Allotment Challenge

[original PM]

it's just a way to save money

why pay for many 'talented' professionals when you can just have one and some random nutters from the public you do not need to pay

makes tulip tv but then i think nowadays people just turn on the tv and turn of the brain so it just becomes moving wallpaper

[evilagent]

There is a dearth of nonsense on TV.
Mostly no-talent programs, getting members of public to fill the airwaves doing stuff, instead of actual artistic content programs.
Come Dine With Me, X Factor / Brit Got Talent, Sewing Bee, etc

have to say though MasterChef is slightly better than most.

As if to prove that TV will one day disappear up it's own behind, there is a C4 program called Gogglebox, where you can watch other people watching TV.

[TheFaQQer]

The biggest allotment challenge is actually getting one in the first place. We've been on the waiting list for two years now, and when we added our names to the list we were told to expect at least a five year wait.

We can get a private one, but paying £250 a year doesn't really appeal to me.

[d000hg]

Has Monty Don got some masterchef with wood show on channel 4?

I am surprised they have not got Kevin McCloud doing some type of masterchef with bricks show, clearly nobody is building any grand design houses these days so they have got him doing some right nonsense to fill up his contract.

I liked Grand Designs (and Property Ladder). But yes any idea which starts "let's find a way to use this person" rather than "who would be great for this show" is not good.

[MicrosoftBob]

You haven't seen DIY SOS?

Or equivalent on Channel 5?

They get whole rooms and houses done for needy people and get the furniture in a day from well-known chain stores.

Nope, I get enough reality during the week I prefer watching trashy films instead

[SueEllen]

What about "The Big Sofa Challenge", without paying extra they have to try and get a sofa delivered the same day from a chain store

You haven't seen DIY SOS?

Or equivalent on Channel 5?

They get whole rooms and houses done for needy people and get the furniture in a day from well-known chain stores.

[SueEllen]

Again, life following fiction after W1A (BBC comedy show) had a plotline about trying to woo Claire Balding away from ITV's "How big is your dog?" to host "Britain's Tastiest Village"

[d000hg]

"Anyone got any ideas for a new show?"

"I known, let's do masterchef in a garden"

"Brilliant idea! that is the best one since the masterchef with cakes program"

Seriously, are they so creatively hindered in the BBC that this is the best they can come up with?

Again, life following fiction after W1A (BBC comedy show) had a plotline about trying to woo Claire Balding away from ITV's "How big is your dog?" to host "Britain's Tastiest Village"

[minestrone]

He's in this

I have had a right good whine about that before...

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...made-home.html

"Did anyone seriously think a man nailing bits onto his shed would make a series of watchable TV?"

[MicrosoftBob]

What about "The Big Sofa Challenge", without paying extra they have to try and get a sofa delivered the same day from a chain store

[SueEllen]

I am surprised they have not got Kevin McCloud doing some type of masterchef with bricks show, clearly nobody is building any grand design houses these days so they have got him doing some right nonsense to fill up his contract.

He's in this

[minestrone]

Has Monty Don got some masterchef with wood show on channel 4?

I am surprised they have not got Kevin McCloud doing some type of masterchef with bricks show, clearly nobody is building any grand design houses these days so they have got him doing some right nonsense to fill up his contract.

[DaveB]

"Anyone got any ideas for a new show?"

"I known, let's do masterchef in a garden"

"Brilliant idea! that is the best one since the masterchef with cakes program"

Seriously, are they so creatively hindered in the BBC that this is the best they can come up with?

Well Sewing was already taken, so I guess gardening was all that was left.

[TykeMerc]

One of the team I've been working with was approached to take part in that as she's an allotment nutter. She declined to enter since "it was too masterchefish".

[minestrone]

"Anyone got any ideas for a new show?"

"I known, let's do masterchef in a garden"

"Brilliant idea! that is the best one since the masterchef with cakes program"

Seriously, are they so creatively hindered in the BBC that this is the best they can come up with?