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House Gift - has there EVER been a flimsier premise for an hour long tv show?
Crazyeyeskiller
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No - there hasn't.
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I know!! And the way Bowen talks to us like the house gift they buy is going to be really important to their lives!
When I read the name Bowen I thought you meant JIM
Would rather Jim bought a gift for my house anyday rather than that Lewlylln Bowen tosspot! :rolleyes:
Since the Changing Rooms incident he has become a total berk
I bet it would be a bendy bully!
Even better! After all, you can't beat a bit a bully.....:D
Aside from the fact it's 30 minutes (at most) dragged over an hour, the faux-rivalry is the most tedious thing about it. LLB really needs to tone down the **** he talks.
Oh, and instead of pretentious people who tend to live in decent homes, can we not have some Jeremy Kyle types on it? I'd love to see LLB try to convince a fat work-shy mother of ten that what her flat really needs to set it off are some Victorian books placed on the mantlepiece.
Very unsusual eyes, but wholly acceptable
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Seems to have a fly stuck in the corner of her right eye though:eek:
I agree that the premise is quite flimsy... and I can't really articulate why it is that I enjoyed wasting an hour of my life watching it! Perhaps it's Laurence Llewelyn Bowen - I like him
It certainly wouldn't be a Boat.........
I must be strange.
I've have watched it a few times and have grown to like it but can see why people think it is stretched out too long.
The experts seem to know their stuff on all things to do will the history and design of objects and architecture especially Laurence and Tom.
For those who watch it reguarly what has been your favourite item? Mine has to be the life size bust of Darth Vader with the head of the proper Anakin inside (Sebastian Shaw from the original films)
Mine has to be the gorgeous pieces of Stourbridge glass that Lawrence chose for the couple from the same town (which is also my town so I may be biased). I wanted something similar myself, but the three pieces on the show cost £600!
I'm disappointed that the excellent 'May the best house win' has been replaced by this drivel. :mad:
One thing I'd love to know - are all the gifts out "on approval" as it were - do the two rejects just get taken back to the shop they came from? Also how much is planned in advance - e.g. today we had a shop LLB would have loved to have gone into but it was closed - did he just happen on it? Do the shops all know they are coming or do they seriously just "pop in" on the day?
Oh totally agree, gorgeous glass, I absolutely loved them.
And I'm afraid I'm a House Gift lover too - I record it when I'm at work and watch it when I get in
And there's just something about LLB, he's a pompous ass but I can't help liking him!
My main problem is again that it always those that seem to be better off I would love to have lots of nice things like that but know they will pretty much always be out of reach short of winning the lottery and it would be nice to see people who are more deserving get the chance to get something for their house. Only other thing I would like from it is for the gifts to be more practical. Some of the gifts have been totally pointless and I'm going to show my complete ignorance as I can't remember the name of the designer
That said there are better and worse shows on in the afternoons and for me its preferable to the endless repeats of Dickinsons Real Deal:mad:
The only thing I can say in it's defence is that it can't match the sheer awfullness of Dickinson's Real Deal which follows it. I know it's only daytime TV, but isn't there a law against torture? Who needs waterboarding when you have ITV daytime schedules.
It can't be any worse than the pathetic House Gift - or the one where four people show their homes and then vote on the one they like best.
What about opening 26 boxes in random order for an hour????