Escape to the Country...most boring prog on TV?
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ETTC is on my TV now....is there anyone out there who watches it? and why, please? just wondering. I thought 'Antiques whatever we can do next on the subject of Antiques' was bad, but this is pretty dire. The voices, the people, the presenter....good grief!
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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."
I quite like things like A Place in The Sun, and other overseas property programmes. You see some fantastic properties, in beautiful locations, for the price of a small studio flat in London.
Team get a list to look at
Team reject ones that won't make anything
Camera shows people on the phone.
Camera shows people in the office not doing much.
Team goto a house talk to someone
Show ends.
Couldn't they just! I watch, but only to see the actual properties, (probably out of mild curiosity/jealousy that they all seem to be places I could never personally afford ). I tend to record this programme and only watch the actual property viewing bits, skipping the rest. Skipping all the re-caps and padding it out bits tends to mean you can watch the programme in about 5-7 minutes on average.
My question is "why would anyone want to watch football"??
Can't the retired couples see the disadvantages of living in an isolated Spanish village thousands of miles away from their families ? ( Although perhaps they don't get on )
Wanted Down Under is another one that annoys me, what a good idea to uproot your teenage children half the way through their GCSE course !
I agree about escape to the country, if you're in your late 60's why would you want to take on an enormous house with a big garden ?
A Place In The Sun is the one that really annoys me sometimes. Some of them are so fussy and they complain about every house they see and I always suspect they didn't really want to buy a house in Spain/France/Italy/whatever other country they went to and instead just wanted a free holiday and 15 minutes of fame on the telly.
It's true about the house buying. They need to put a positive statement at the end. Sometimes they say they have put in an offer but in the majority of cases they don't mention what happened which leads me to think the majority of the houses are unsuitable or the people are time wasters.
I forgot about Homes Down Under. A completely pointless programme. I might apply to go on it to get a free long haul holiday which is what I suspect happens in the majority of applications! Nicky Chapman does it, doesn't she? She used to do ETTC too so maybe its the same production company? I am not a fan. A bit too vanilla. (A bit random, saw her in M & S in Marble Arch shoe bit a few years back. Taller than you'd think.)
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I don't go out of my way to watch ETTC, but there's nothing else on on a Sunday morning as I eat my breakfast and it's ok. Some of the houses are lovely and there is a certain satisfaction to seeing people get excited over a view that isn't as nice as your own - it reminds me of how lucky I am to live where I live. I do agree with the comments about the padding though - they could cut the cheese shops and squeeze in another house.
I'd say that if you were to compare this show with, as a few examples, all soaps, all reality shows, endless cooking shows, sports of all kind on TV, so called new/alternative comedy, then Escape to the Country is moving quite high up my list of more watchable TV. I try wherever possible not to watch any of the examples I have given and when you do that then TV becomes a whole more enjoyable medium.
The one show kills me.
I watch it to see if the presenter or buyers can get through an episode without uttering the phrase 'ticks all the boxes'. Hasn't happened yet.
Plus I'm mildly fascinated by presenter Alistair Appleton (v attractive with dimples) - he always strikes me as very proper on the surface but with a jaded edge to his presentation like he's bored and taking the piss a bit.
Go and buy a plate for 30 quid and sell it for a fiver profit/loss, great!
I would honestly rather watch a blank screen than have to endure that mundane pointlessness.