"Skipweasel" wrote in message
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In article 94a5cef8-1b6b-44d2-a580-79cb065100b3
@hg8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com, says...
Exactly, tv is overrun with this sort of junk already. Grand designs,
Tommy walsh, and buy & fix programs demonstrate that there is an
audience for real diy. So many viewers are fed up with vapid junk.


If we really have to have a panel of comedians, why not watch them
attempting DIY? Or pluck people at random from the street and ask them
to put up a shelf (bit of a cliché, that one) or change a plug, or hang
a door, or take apart some bit of electrical equipment not designed to
be repaired and repair it.


Bring back anything that involves real people actually thinking. And I
don't mean programmes where it's been set up in advance to make it
"entertaining" like Scrap Heap Challenge. Nor do I mean programmes where
the original idea gets swamped by media luvvies who want to make it
"more exciting" like Robot Wars. The rules in that are so skewed that I
threw away the plans I had for a rather nice entry - you're not allowed
to damage the house robots, for example, but they're allowed to trash
you.

Bring back almost anything that involved thinking instead of jerks
jiggling their egos in front of me.

More Ray Mears, less Brer Grills.
More Great Egg Race, less Robot Wars.
More real, less "reality".

--
Skipweasel - never knowingly understood.

Couldn't have put it better myself

(ex Great Egg Racer)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/10802.shtml