Thanks for that, lovely to hear your reasons why you watch a certain prog....maybe I hit it on a particularly bad day! I do think though that people do just do it to be on the television, especially 'the go abroad' ones...a freebie holiday under the guise of property hunting.
And I agree, there are a lot of very boring progs.....but I guess that's something for everyone!;-)
If Jules Hudson is presenting, I can watch it all day every day. I'd also like to be Alastair Appletons straight female best friend. I prefer Johnny with Jasmine on A Place in the Sun: home or away, whilst both Denise Nurse and Nicky Chapman get right on my tits.
Any soap is boring. ETTC is great.
I watch occasionally as I love looking round other people's houses but do wonder some times where they get all the money as some of the couples are quite young and buying a property for over half a million.
I also love Alaister Appleton presenting it. I used to like him too on that other house show with the American woman Anne? where people were trying to sell their houses.
I do agree that they could do without all the padding. I don't want to see cheese making etc.
It is completely unrealistic because they never ask about cess pits, soakaways etc which can be quite a big part of living in the country away from sewage systems! Loads of other things not asked when they look around. I guess they do this after the programme and this is why very few of the properties are sold.
My wife has this on whilst she's reading the paper.
She says the majority of people are middle aged and older.
They want something in the country with privacy, then complain what they are shown is too far from the shops!
The want a "traditional" cottage and then complain about the low ceilings.
"She" wants a big kitchen. But it's for the two of them.
They want a big garden, but seem oblivious of how much work that will entail.
It seems most, just want to be "on telly."
All done deliberately to make good telly. A couple asks for a quiet spot within a mile of shops - so take them to somewhere fifteen miles up a farm track and see if there's a reaction. Everything is done to extremes - a "big" garden in Surbiton is not the same as offering 35 acres and a lake
Most of the "negative" couples are probably sick of the process before they even get to a house - especially cooped up in the car with Jules and the three person camera crew.
I watch occasionally as I love looking round other people's houses but do wonder some times where they get all the money as some of the couples are quite young and buying a property for over half a million.
I also love Alaister Appleton presenting it. I used to like him too on that other house show with the American woman Anne? where people were trying to sell their houses.
I do agree that they could do without all the padding. I don't want to see cheese making etc.
It is completely unrealistic because they never ask about cess pits, soakaways etc which can be quite a big part of living in the country away from sewage systems! Loads of other things not asked when they look around. I guess they do this after the programme and this is why very few of the properties are sold.
BIB - House Doctor with Anne Maurice! Loved that programme
Like everything on TV what appears boring to some people is not boring to others. For instance soap operas, American comedy shows, football, motor racing, golf, bowls are loathed by many people but loved by others.
I know of one man in his 80s who is housebound and who regularly watches ETTC and I always avoid phoning him when it is on TV. However he hates football and most sports.
Thanks for that, lovely to hear your reasons why you watch a certain prog....maybe I hit it on a particularly bad day! I do think though that people do just do it to be on the television, especially 'the go abroad' ones...a freebie holiday under the guise of property hunting.
And I agree, there are a lot of very boring progs.....but I guess that's something for everyone!;-)
These days, with so many channels, TV comapanies can show all the cookery, sport, soaps, car and antiques shows they like; it doesn't affect me. In fact, there's plenty of really good drama on TV these days too - though the Christmas hiatus is a problem - so I can't understand why anybody would complain about a type of show; just watch something else. The only problem is if they don't make a type of show you want.
I like Escape to the Country and I already do live in the country
It's on in the background while I'm working and I just like having a nose at other people's houses really.
With any of those kind of property shows we play a game guessing how much the houses are and whether the people are time wasters or not :cool: We also play if you were picking one and had to pick, which would you go for and why.
The things that always get on my nerves are that it's rare they give any information about costs (usually when it's a property that's part of some kind of conversion or complex and there's a monthly or quarterly management fee for maintenance) and Nicky Chapman.
She wears these fitted dresses and heels but stomps around the properties as elegant as a farmer in muddy wellies.
I don't mind ETTC too much, there's some pretty houses on there. I did see one once (I think it was ETTC) where the couple actually bought the house. I think it was the second house they viewed, and the owner turned up whilst they were filming. The couple really liked the house, had a chat with the owner and made an offer there and then.
(No idea if it went through or not, though. And they still had to go see the third house for the programme. But it was a nice surprise. )
Homes under the hammer is the one that annoys me. The presenters get on my nerves. The cheesy music that's selected to tie in with a terrible pun one of them makes is just cringeworthy. And it's always the same - a small 2up/2down terraced house is sold at auction, for the new owner to do it up on the cheap and rent it out. I don't like the way they show you a property, it goes to auction and then... you have to wait for them to come back to the property later in the show to see what happened with it. Also, the local estate agents annoy me too.. it's the way they all say per calendar month when talking about rental yields. Grr. It's the one property programme that really gets up nose.
I watch occasionally as I love looking round other people's houses but do wonder some times where they get all the money as some of the couples are quite young and buying a property for over half a million.
Most likely it will be bankrolled by their parents.
Cheap and boring. Get some middle aged couple who made a fortune in the housing boom and watch fascinated as they ponder at how to spend their loot and outbid the poor locals who need a first house never mind a second!:D
I like it, mainly because I would like to move to the country and I like a nose around the properties. I don't watch any other property progs and I don't go out of my way to watch this one. They could cut out all the padding, I don't need to see the couple or the presenter making candles in Nether Wallop. Some of the presenters are hard work. I think I only see the old repeats as the properties seem to be 2011. The couples are invariably dull and seem to think, in that British way, that you must not show any enthusiasm. They could show them the most magnificent property and all they say is, that is quite nice, everything is quite nice, rather than amazing or beautiful. Some of the budgets they have to spend can be astonishing. How do some people amass all that money?
I'm with Poppy on most of this - I'm interested in property generally and like Homes under the hammer as a concept but the dreadful music (music itself often OK it's way its linked) and the buyers staged walking round their properties but I digress....
ETTC was required viewing for us as we spent 2 years trying to move - after being from London originally and spending 20 plus years in Brighton -
(we even saw/viewed some of the properties that have been featured on ETTC) well it was a useful source of info as well as being entertaining -
we very nearly applied but in fact anyone really serious will be far too busy researching properties and making their own visits - spent a fortune on fuel and food and frequent 450 mile round trips seeing houses that look ok on screen/paper and often aren't....
it's hardly offensive is it? it isn't eastenders or celeb dross and I can't bear football either(red blooded male into motorcycles) but happily watch episodes of this.
In fact I guess I should be after a programme called escape to the city as finally made it and now live in a converted barn in the hills in Devon and it's rural bliss we are very fortunate in that my family has amassed enough for us to do this I know.
The later episodes do seem to have dropped the wicker workshops and things and is the better for it - I quite like Jules and am quite happy to watch Nicki Chapman in her figure hugging dresses and unsuitable heels! ;-)
but it does miss a trick of not updating if they bought anything...however other posters are right - people who have never been to the area or not there for years - don't like beams or thatch, not even got their house on market yet
yes most of them really are there for a nice weekend away in the country - i do know of a couple who went on place in the sun just so they could get their honeymoon in Croatia for free...
but....overall....lovely scenery, inoffensive people /gentle amble round ...well they can spend my licence fee on this quite happily compared to the other dross that gets commissioned ...
its high time this program was removed from the screen..its just so boring..and i feel its just a in your face 'look what we have got to spend on a house'..with the view to try to impress there friends sitting in there living room drinking sherry and wine while watching the program...pull the plug now!!!.
its high time this program was removed from the screen..its just so boring..and i feel its just a in your face 'look what we have got to spend on a house'..with the view to try to impress there friends sitting in there living room drinking sherry and wine while watching the program...pull the plug now!!!.
it's the same for place in the sun..we can afford a holiday home....and for grand designs or restoration....
it's not bothering anyone...some of us enjoy property programmes rather than corrie or eastenders or any number of other shows or indeed endless football news and speculation..as I said we found it really useful and entertaining when looking to move out here...
....there's a lot more to complain about on the BBC than ETTC if you don't like it there's a multitude of channels to swap to and those who do can carry on...i know a forum exists to complain mostly but to ask for it to stop is a bit much
They couples featured are the bricks and mortar versions of used car dealer tyre kickers. Ultimately wasting the salesperson's//presenter's time after opening the doors, viewing the interior, checking out the history, partaking of any hospitality on offer, then saying thank you for making it really easy for them to go and buy similar from somebody else.
I like it when Jules is presenting. I also like watching old repeats, when Catherine Gee presented, and they showed 4 houses instead of 3.
Same here, 4 houses and they also had a mystery house as well. Much better format.
I remember Catherine showing one couple round this house that had a listed Queen Anne staircase, it was beautiful....the woman said she would get rid of it as she didnt like it :o:o
I like watching ETTC if only mostly to see the beautiful and breathtaking views of the countryside and some of the houses are interesting too. I like mostly when Jules Hudson and Denise Nurse are presenting it.
Many people like watching it, probably that's why it's still on the screen, so I don't see why a programme should be removed just because some find it boring when they have the choice of watching an alternative programme that is more to their interests, or simply reaching for the Off switch.
I would imagine many of those shown in their fifties, may have singularly, or both inherited property from recently deceased parents. This plus the sale of their own property, together with possibly a partial mortgage, might give them £500,000 or a lot more.
Though the programme is presented almost, as if they've brought a "bag o' cash" with them.
As I mentioned earlier my wife like to record and watch bits of this and calls me in when she sees "something daft."
The bits showing the area where such houses are located must be more interesting than watching someone, "not buying something."
its high time this program was removed from the screen..its just so boring..and i feel its just a in your face 'look what we have got to spend on a house'..with the view to try to impress there friends sitting in there living room drinking sherry and wine while watching the program...pull the plug now!!!.
Exactly. I think a lot of them do it just so they can have their 15 minutes of fame on the telly. It's exhibitionism as far as I'm concerned.
I would imagine many of those shown in their fifties, may have singularly, or both inherited property from recently deceased parents. This plus the sale of their own property, together with possibly a partial mortgage, might give them £500,000 or a lot more.
Though the programme is presented almost, as if they've brought a "bag o' cash" with them.
As I mentioned earlier my wife like to record and watch bits of this and calls me in when she sees "something daft."
The bits showing the area where such houses are located must be more interesting than watching someone, "not buying something."
They mostly are because it often takes that long to acquire the capital or move up the ladder and at that age often is when people look for a quieter or slower pace of life and are tired of city life or suburban commuting...same as for place in the sun etc.
But just as many have been couples with children looking to leave the city behind as well.....
I'm in 40's now and been trying to leave for ages and now have.
I also liked Catherine Gee a lot and more properties....we also looked at places here and turned out one was just down the road from kirsty allsop
...as I have a thing for her this was quickly vetoed by OH.! ...
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This post is exactly what I was going to say!
I would like it if they showed some less expensive properties though. Who wants 3 acres and a huge kitchen? And who needs to keep alpacas?
We are currently looking for a bungalow but they are like hens' teeth, even here on the Isle of Wight!
And I agree, there are a lot of very boring progs.....but I guess that's something for everyone!;-)
Any soap is boring. ETTC is great.
I also love Alaister Appleton presenting it. I used to like him too on that other house show with the American woman Anne? where people were trying to sell their houses.
I do agree that they could do without all the padding. I don't want to see cheese making etc.
It is completely unrealistic because they never ask about cess pits, soakaways etc which can be quite a big part of living in the country away from sewage systems! Loads of other things not asked when they look around. I guess they do this after the programme and this is why very few of the properties are sold.
All done deliberately to make good telly. A couple asks for a quiet spot within a mile of shops - so take them to somewhere fifteen miles up a farm track and see if there's a reaction. Everything is done to extremes - a "big" garden in Surbiton is not the same as offering 35 acres and a lake
Most of the "negative" couples are probably sick of the process before they even get to a house - especially cooped up in the car with Jules and the three person camera crew.
BIB - House Doctor with Anne Maurice! Loved that programme
I know of one man in his 80s who is housebound and who regularly watches ETTC and I always avoid phoning him when it is on TV. However he hates football and most sports.
These days, with so many channels, TV comapanies can show all the cookery, sport, soaps, car and antiques shows they like; it doesn't affect me. In fact, there's plenty of really good drama on TV these days too - though the Christmas hiatus is a problem - so I can't understand why anybody would complain about a type of show; just watch something else. The only problem is if they don't make a type of show you want.
The fat lady with the poodles that changed it all back when Anne had finished?
It's on in the background while I'm working and I just like having a nose at other people's houses really.
With any of those kind of property shows we play a game guessing how much the houses are and whether the people are time wasters or not :cool: We also play if you were picking one and had to pick, which would you go for and why.
The things that always get on my nerves are that it's rare they give any information about costs (usually when it's a property that's part of some kind of conversion or complex and there's a monthly or quarterly management fee for maintenance) and Nicky Chapman.
She wears these fitted dresses and heels but stomps around the properties as elegant as a farmer in muddy wellies.
(No idea if it went through or not, though. And they still had to go see the third house for the programme. But it was a nice surprise. )
Homes under the hammer is the one that annoys me. The presenters get on my nerves. The cheesy music that's selected to tie in with a terrible pun one of them makes is just cringeworthy. And it's always the same - a small 2up/2down terraced house is sold at auction, for the new owner to do it up on the cheap and rent it out. I don't like the way they show you a property, it goes to auction and then... you have to wait for them to come back to the property later in the show to see what happened with it. Also, the local estate agents annoy me too.. it's the way they all say per calendar month when talking about rental yields. Grr. It's the one property programme that really gets up nose.
Most likely it will be bankrolled by their parents.
Cheap and boring. Get some middle aged couple who made a fortune in the housing boom and watch fascinated as they ponder at how to spend their loot and outbid the poor locals who need a first house never mind a second!:D
I'm with Poppy on most of this - I'm interested in property generally and like Homes under the hammer as a concept but the dreadful music (music itself often OK it's way its linked) and the buyers staged walking round their properties but I digress....
ETTC was required viewing for us as we spent 2 years trying to move - after being from London originally and spending 20 plus years in Brighton -
(we even saw/viewed some of the properties that have been featured on ETTC) well it was a useful source of info as well as being entertaining -
we very nearly applied but in fact anyone really serious will be far too busy researching properties and making their own visits - spent a fortune on fuel and food and frequent 450 mile round trips seeing houses that look ok on screen/paper and often aren't....
it's hardly offensive is it? it isn't eastenders or celeb dross and I can't bear football either(red blooded male into motorcycles) but happily watch episodes of this.
In fact I guess I should be after a programme called escape to the city as finally made it and now live in a converted barn in the hills in Devon and it's rural bliss
The later episodes do seem to have dropped the wicker workshops and things and is the better for it - I quite like Jules and am quite happy to watch Nicki Chapman in her figure hugging dresses and unsuitable heels! ;-)
but it does miss a trick of not updating if they bought anything...however other posters are right - people who have never been to the area or not there for years - don't like beams or thatch, not even got their house on market yet
yes most of them really are there for a nice weekend away in the country - i do know of a couple who went on place in the sun just so they could get their honeymoon in Croatia for free...
but....overall....lovely scenery, inoffensive people /gentle amble round ...well they can spend my licence fee on this quite happily compared to the other dross that gets commissioned ...
it's the same for place in the sun..we can afford a holiday home....and for grand designs or restoration....
it's not bothering anyone...some of us enjoy property programmes rather than corrie or eastenders or any number of other shows or indeed endless football news and speculation..as I said we found it really useful and entertaining when looking to move out here...
....there's a lot more to complain about on the BBC than ETTC if you don't like it there's a multitude of channels to swap to and those who do can carry on...i know a forum exists to complain mostly but to ask for it to stop is a bit much
Same here, 4 houses and they also had a mystery house as well. Much better format.
I remember Catherine showing one couple round this house that had a listed Queen Anne staircase, it was beautiful....the woman said she would get rid of it as she didnt like it
Many people like watching it, probably that's why it's still on the screen, so I don't see why a programme should be removed just because some find it boring when they have the choice of watching an alternative programme that is more to their interests, or simply reaching for the Off switch.
Though the programme is presented almost, as if they've brought a "bag o' cash" with them.
As I mentioned earlier my wife like to record and watch bits of this and calls me in when she sees "something daft."
The bits showing the area where such houses are located must be more interesting than watching someone, "not buying something."
Exactly. I think a lot of them do it just so they can have their 15 minutes of fame on the telly. It's exhibitionism as far as I'm concerned.
They mostly are because it often takes that long to acquire the capital or move up the ladder and at that age often is when people look for a quieter or slower pace of life and are tired of city life or suburban commuting...same as for place in the sun etc.
But just as many have been couples with children looking to leave the city behind as well.....
I'm in 40's now and been trying to leave for ages and now have.
I also liked Catherine Gee a lot and more properties....we also looked at places here and turned out one was just down the road from kirsty allsop
...as I have a thing for her this was quickly vetoed by OH.!