The BBC announced this afternoon that Monty Don will be returning to GW next spring. Toby Buckland’s contract hasn’t been renewed. More surprisingly, Alys Fowler is leaving too. Monty Don returns to GW The programme was becoming dull and lightweight and something needed to change. The Greenacre site was a bigger problem than Toby, I […]
Here it is, the new man on his new plot, with a new producer too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUqYLDYVy0 Is it just me or has Toby got a much bigger smile on his face now that he never has to go back to Berryfields again? I think I know how he probably felt. I’ve coped quite well for […]
GW moves to new location I never did take to Berryfields – it always looked a bit uninviting. Oddly cold and gloomy. Too big and too many problems to solve. The garden effectively dominated the agenda. With a new location the producers should be able to shape the programme exactly as they wish. Let’s see…
It is simply incomprehensible that we will get no proper weekly GW on the Beeb till April 10th (Good Friday). By then the GW garden at Berryfields will be full of produce growing away merrily, having been sown weeks before in ground prepared over winter when the programme was off air. How dispiriting for people […]