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  • #1

    The good life.......

    I've just been looking at all the dissent about the present gardening programmes and got to thinking........

    A programme I would gladly watch on a weekly basis is a remake of The Good Life....for real.

    To follow the trials and tribulations on a weekly basis from the inception of a family who have decided to give the good life a try. Not for just one season though........maybe a five year span?

    A Scottish crofters life would also make very interesting television.

    I don't watch much television so I'm sure someone is going to point me in the direction of programmes that have already done this?
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    I think the problem is that gardening isn't 'sexy' enough for TV. That's why they keep tinkering with the format of GW, to try and appeal to the short-attention-span generation
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      I'm not sure its the short attention span generation, more the "not sexy enough" tv.
      Such a programme would only probably get a half hour slot, and try and put a weeks worth of such stuff into a half hour slot wouldnt at all be representative of the efforts of said folk.
      There wouldnt be a tv company (I'm willing to bet real money here) that would dedicate the half hour or more a day that would really show just how difficult the life of a smallholder type person really is. Anything shorter than that (imho) wouldnt really show it for how it is......ie it wouldnt be sexy enough.
      Bob Leponge
      Life's disappointments are so much harder to take if you don't know any swear words.

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      • #4
        i suppose the closest show to 'the good life' in real terms would be the one monty did recently where he had people setting up a new small holding or farming business, it was quite good but it was more about monty giving advice then the day to day gritty stuff the family went through.

        i personally want more gardening programmes dedicated to growing veg, i love gardeners world but i get bored at the flowers bit.

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        • #5
          With ya there Snadge! I subscribed to Country Smallholding magazine a couple of years back. They have stories in there, but a TV version would be fantastic. I suppose the nearest I've seen was Jimmy's Farm, which I enjoyed.

          If I ever have enough money to buy the land then a Smallholder I shall become. Don't want to be filmed though!
          All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
          Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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          • #6
            OH would watch gardening programs if "Charlie Dimmock" was on, He all way's watched Ground Force, said she had a great pr off...water features .

            But I agree Snadger, I also like to watch program's that are also doable,for me anyway I like the idea of the good life, but living in a mid terrace house with an 20'' x 15' back yard that I converted in to a garden, keeping pigs , sheep and chooks isn't an option...even if the neighbours didn't object

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            • #7
              But who would offer to present it, when they get ripped to shreds for it? [Can I nominate Raymond Blanc's 2 sons, just for eye candy appeal].

              I believe that the BBC are filming a lottie programme at the moment, just waiting to hear back on whether this is a palming off/holding response, or a real one.
              Last edited by zazen999; 11-04-2010, 08:53 AM.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                But who would offer to present it, when they get ripped to shreds for it? ....
                Ooooh hark at her!!!

                Mind you, it's a valid point. No one seems to be 'acceptable' nowadays. The TV companies seem to like trying new faces, when us fussy b*ggars don't seem to like change.

                It'd have to be Monty Don or Kevin McCloud for me. But I guess they wouldn't appeal to everyone, either.
                All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
                Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by rainbowbrite View Post
                  i personally want more gardening programmes dedicated to growing veg.
                  Same here which is why I lean towards the Alys Fowler programme, Carol Klein and the chefs James, Jamie etc who do a bit of growing and then cook it.
                  pjh75

                  We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed. (Neil, The Young Ones)

                  http://producebypaula.blogspot.com/

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                  • #10
                    The BBC are looking for people for a smallholding experiment programme. Can't remember where I read that, but it sounded like an interesting premise for a programme.

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                    • #11
                      There was the progamme with Dick Strawbridge and family called Its Not Easy Being Green where Dick and his family grew their own veg and converted a stream to provide electricity. I did enjoy the show.
                      http://ivansfruitandveg.blogspot.com/

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                      • #12
                        I'd like to see Tamasin Day Lewis's new garden in Somerset and see how she gets on growing and cooking her produce - there was a great slot in one of her programmes where she went to a friend's garden and he had built a clay outdoor oven. They had roasted/ baked purple and red potatoes.
                        Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                        • #13
                          Now that is spooky just looked on the website for Its Not Easy been Green and they have feature on how to build a cly oven in a day.

                          Newhouse Farm - Sustainable Living & Green Technology Courses in Cornwall.
                          http://ivansfruitandveg.blogspot.com/

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                          • #14
                            pjh75 james martin digs deep is on good food channel monday at two oclock followed by grow your own veg with carol klein a new series i think

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Jeanied View Post
                              where she went to a friend's garden and he had built a clay outdoor oven.
                              Bet it wasn't as good as our own dear PW's
                              I was feeling part of the scenery
                              I walked right out of the machinery
                              My heart going boom boom boom
                              "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                              I've come to take you home."

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