On 26 May, 14:46, sm_jamieson wrote:
On 26 May, 13:51, geraldthehamster wrote:





On 25 May, 21:01, "John" wrote:

Some good bits in the programme - but annoying when Melinda goes and begs
materials and services and get things free. If I was to try it......!

I think it is an abuse of the 'power' of TV. I wish a retailer would tell
them that their prices are as low as possible and if they were to give
anything away then other customers would have to subsidise it or they would
go out of business.

The whole programme is annoying. A family "abandoned" by their
builder, with no explanation of why the builder left the site and only
the punter's side of the story. An extension/loft conversion that is
sometimes badly built, but mostly just part finished ("dangerous") and
first-fixed ("dangerous, look at those wires hanging out"). Then
there's the set piece of Melinda's pet builder sucking his teeth when
asked to do more than he has, allegedly, been paid to do, and the
faked blagging from shops. Not to mention the East End bloke doing the
full stalking-and-leaping-out-of-a-cupboard-with-a-microphone routine
at the slightest excuse. I used to watch it, but nowadays it mostly
clashes with Challenge Tommy Walsh, which is, of course, unmissable.

Cheers
Richard

Whats the Tommy Walsh programme like ?
On what channel ?
I only have freeview at the moment.

Challenge Tommy Walsh is on Quest (Freeview 38) most evenings. They're
probably old repeats, but I find them interesting, because unlike
almost every other housey programme, they actually show you how to do
stuff.

Cheers
Richard