Allotment Wars BBC 1 Or BBC One HD

[Currysniffa]

Documentary exploring the conflicts seething amid Britain's allotments.

[veggiechicken]

BBC One - Allotment Wars

[zazen999]

What a shame the BBC decided to spend money on war rather than education.

[SarzWix]

That's just really bizarre! Why would you devote SEVEN months to filming a load of negativity, without at least attempting to show the positives?! From the blurb on the program: "Allotment Wars shows what happens when strangers are thrust together on the land with too much time on their hands and too many sharp tools." (my emphasis) Err WTF?! I don't know any plotholders with 'too much time on their hands'! Oooh, that's made me reeet !

[Ananke]

If you put your tinfoil hat on, it looks like they are trying to burst the bubble on the appeal of the allotment. Long waiting lists and demands to make more land available.

When you take your tinfoil hat back off though it just looks like more cheap TV

[Potstubsdustbins]

In this strange world we now live in it would seem conflict of one sort or another always get better viewing figures.

As to the BBC having polictical bias surely not LOL.

Potty

[Sheneval]

Potty

I think this represents the other side of the story

BBC News - The allure of the allotment: One family's love for their plot

[ladylottie]

Thankfully the programme isn't being shown in Wales - why do we have to have programmes with arguments and negativity all the time? Pots is right - they must think they get better viewing figures. Trouble is that people "with too much time on their hands" will watch the programme and we'll all get tarred with the same brush.
Sheneval - I think I'd rather see the Allure of the Allotment instead.

[Bren In Pots]

Not sure who the target audience is for Allotment Wars but I know I won't be bothering watching it.

[veggiechicken]

Thankfully the programme isn't being shown in Wales

Sorry LL, its being shown half an hour later BBC One - Allotment Wars - Next on

[Two_Sheds]

it just looks like more cheap TV

Nobody (but us) would want to watch a half hour, or whatever it is, of happy people gardening happily. Producers need an "angle"

[Currysniffa]

I know Dan from the Allotment Diary on You Tube was approached by the BBC last summer and asked to be on the show. He turned it down because of the negative nature of the program.

Its really a mist opportunity from the BBC as we've be wanting a GYO show on TV for years!

[Bigmallly]

Has it been on yet or is the 1st episode on Tuesday?................I'll reserve judgement till I've seen it.

[bearded bloke]

First showing of first episode is Tuesday next BM ....... sampler clip (later episode I think) ........... BBC One - Allotment Wars, Shed break ins and vegetable attacks

[Bigmallly]

First showing of first episode is Tuesday next BM ....... sampler clip (later episode I think) ........... BBC One - Allotment Wars, Shed break ins and vegetable attacks

Cheers BB, I saw that but don't understand the comments. I think it could be quite interesting but maybe the BBC could have phrased it better.