On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:10:52 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
EricP wrote:
You might suggest to your producer that a good DIY prog showing how to do
things properly rather than the tosh over rubbish we get in the UK would
get a big and loyal following - as well as plenty of help from here.

Oh God!

YES PLEASE!!!

Dig up Barry Bucknell, bury Harry Greene instead.

Heh heh - Bucknell was just a front man with little in the way of DIY
skills - he did nothing in his own house. When you saw him drive in a
screw, it had already been done by a chippy then removed so it was an easy
fit. The house they used for the prog was eventually sold and found to be
full of bodges.


Spoofing on television isn't new.

I remember reading somewhere that the Cradocks (original TV chefs)
mainly ate out of cans.


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..andy