Gardeners' World: sour grapes

[macmac]

We recorded GW and kept fast forwarding the dull bits it lasted about 20mins and that included pausing twice to refill our glasses
Perhaps the time has come for the bbc to let GW continue on this ridiculous course and give us a new programme any suggestions.....

[glallotments]

To start with I think visiting garden shows and gardening are two separate programmes. It seems daft to abandon the gardening programme every time there is a show at a time when gardener's are busy growing. Why don't they do what sport does and have a special when a show is on?

I would also like to see a gardening programme over winter when most of us gardeners have more time to watch. They need not be filmed live!

I think really GW is suffering from M & S syndrome in that it doesn't seem to know who it's target audience actually is and so is trying to be all things to all people and just ending up pleasing no-one. We really need a set of more clearly focused programmes. After all what would sports lovers feel if they had one programme a week that tried to cover cricket, rugby, football, 'darts' etc etc. Isn't gardening one of the most popular leisure activities so why only one catch-all programme?