Can You Believe Some Programmes

[FoxLee2]

e.g. - Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners - 2 cleaners go into a castle that hasn't been cleaned for decades. The cobwebs have cobwebs, the rooms are filled with clutter and they have just five days to bring five rooms up to scratch. The owner won't let them throw anything away without his say-so and by day three they've hardly made any headway. Yet miraculously by end of day 5, the 5 rooms are sparkling. Yea, right.

Also Celebrity Masterchef - I wonder how long it is between programmes and do they go on courses or have lessons inbetween. For instance, Rylan could hardly boil water when he started and some of the skills he suddenly acquired were unbelievable. He'd never touched fish, cooked it or eaten it and yet in the final, after a brief instruction, he was able to cook the fish to michelin star standard.

[Svejk]

I just noticed, sandy, that Amanda Lamb is to present that show you're looking forward to.
I suppose they couldn't afford Cybill Shepherd.

[FoxLee2]

Something else that occurred to me - when ordinary members of the public are on Masterchef, they practise and practise the dishes on their family members until they are sick of them. Yet Rylan with very little skills initially, said that he didn't cook for his partner nor his mother so how did he learn all those processes he subsequently used.

[Sammy48]

I think the same Foxy about the cleaning, even on the ordinary Compulsive Cleaning show, it seems impossible to turn a pigs ear into a silk cushion. Got to be a team effort.

[horselady]

I always think that with programmes like DIY SOS. They never have to apply for any planning permission (apparently) or discuss it with the Council, they just launch into whatever they decide to do and finish it all within a matter of days-yeah right.

[silliemillie]

And why does it have to be finished in x amount of days?

I appreciate they must have some sort of deadline but does it really matter if the building work goes on another day?

If it were my house I would prefer them to spend a little extra time than rush it and botch it.

[Mamyalynne]

If planning is needed it is obtained in advance, often they tell you the foundations for extensions have been laid in readiness.

[FoxLee2]

Something else that puzzles me with Masterchef is when they cook 2 or 3 courses for John and Gregg and they are all ready at the same time - the food of the last person, must be cold by the time it gets tasted. Also when they are cooking for the guests, past winners or finalists, and they are whipped up to a frenzy you've only got x minutes left to get the food out, all you hear is 'hurry up, hurry up'. Let them wait, they haven't paid for the food. And why can't someone give them a hand to open the doors or carry the third plate in? Even the guy who only had one arm, had to make three journeys with the food.

[horselady]

I know Mamyalynne but they appear at the people's door as if it's all a huge out-of-the blue surprise when, as you say, it can't possibly be.

[Mamyalynne]

I agree that is how it appears to us but they do know they are to be on the programme - they don't know the full extent of what the renovations will be at the end though.

They also need time to arrange alternative accommodation and pack up personal belongings.


If they included all that in the show - it would leave little time to watch the construction and finishing.

[horselady]

I do enjoy that show though and the Love your Garden one like the episode last night with that lovely nurse.