Suz wrote:

This was how they sold it, but from a few programmes in it was obvious that they are doing all the houses in parallel, presumbly
because of time constraints. Looks like it was done all last winter, there have been no summer shots. Damn I was looking forward
to seeing your typical builder topless and showing some "cleavage".

This is probably one of the best explanations when you think about it....

The production team would have set up parallel builds in order to bring
the show in in a reasonable time frame - and use a solid block of the
presenters and productions staffs time. This leaves the problem of
needing to predict in advance what the profit from each build will be,
in order to set the appropriate financial "entry point" on supposedly
subsequent builds.

The moment one of the builds actually returns significantly less profit
than anticipated (and this had happened twice big time so far), the
whole house of cards falls down, and it becomes impossible to maintain
the illusion that the builds were done in strict sequence.


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Cheers,

John.

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