[Closed] BBC Secret Britain now

Recording, last week's in the Beakons was excellent too.
Hell, it's got the lovely Ms Harrison in it. 😉

We found last weeks pretty painful to watch, but are sitting down to round two...

Why do they feel the need to finish each other's sentences in the voice over bit!

The gliders! I was giggling during the loop 😀

How Yorkshire is this gamekeeper dude, he's walked straight out of a chocolate box

Ellie's on a bike in lycra. I'm off for a quiet alone moment.

"Some people say ferreting is cruel.."
Noticed the bbc didn't show any dead fluffy bunnies though.
Her frame looks too big for her though.

mrhoppy
Ellie's on a bike in lycra. I'm off for a quiet alone moment.

I applied for a work experience position at the bbc to be her jumper consultant..........

(ok, i didn't but that would be a good job 😉

This is a really annoying programme .Chocolate box tv with flowery music for townies

I'm cringing at the stand and stare shots from the pair of them.

Isn't this just countryfile?

Patronising crap padded out to a crazy extent.

I miss living there. 😥

It's a good idea for a programme but Adam and Ellie are just painful to watch. Now she's singing, ffs!

Let's just continually repeat "Gods own country" aggghhhhhhhh

I live close enough to Tan Hill to be a local at top of Arkengarthdale, and most of that was a load of rubbish. It doesn't snow that much, and that daft landlady or whatever she reckons to be now hasn't seen it snow properly yet! Load of patronising horse plop.

Would be a good drinking game to do a shot everytime Henson says "gods own country" whilst gazing whist fully into the distance tho....

Give over ya daft apathus

CHB - Member
Patronising crap padded out to a crazy extent.

Glad i'm not the only one. I thought exactly the same after last week's show - all the pieces were short and then interspersed with recaps, intros and helicopter shots.

Patronising crap padded out to a crazy extent.

Yup.

I gave up the other last week pretty much straight away. They started talking about plants and told us their energy came from a very surprising source "The Sun" /click.

Havent seen last nights but i did watch the first one (last night)!

Glad i wasnt the only one driven mad by the way they finished off each others sentences!

There were some good and interesting places but on the whole i agree it was overly padded out. There is something about Ellie that's a bit weird but she looked ok in the swimming shots. May have benefitted from a bikini mind... 😀

tosh --daily mail telly --

I've got a guilty secret i got really annoyed by the way that they shoe horned the word secret into every possible and impossible point in the script . My wife quoting bluestone 42 also screamed "why is she stroking the fkng corn" lovely countryside but a script and presenters beyond parody.

Last week weeks was fun seeing a mates farm in the aerial shots of Llangorse and seeing places I know. The girl presenter is the spit of a girl I work with.

The ginger farmer bloke does talk some utter bobbins. A sanitized snap shot of the countryside, no industrial farming or fly tipping problems. All pretty pictures and proof that parts of the U.K. are breathtakingly beautiful

It gives the average man a glimpse/snapshot of places you possibly never saw before. There will always be viewers who will say 'its my local place that' but like the other episodes I've never seen it before and its literally an hour away from me. It makes me want to GO THERE. Thats the purpose of the programme. How can you cover so many bits of land etc in such a period of time without truncation and trying to keep an audience with you? After all farmland is farmland (n parts).

I enjoyed it as it showed me places that I need to tick off. For that, I'm happy.

Still Julia Bradbury on Wainwright Walks is the way to go..... flame away if you like!

How many of these 'secret' places will be mobbed with tourists this weekend?

Like everyone else I was driven mad by the constant references to 'God's own country' and why do they need to do a roundup at the end? I know where you've been, I've just watched the bloody programme!
15 minutes of interesting content and 45 of waffle and padding.

I couldn't help thinking how much nicer the place would have been when it had trees on the hills.

Did they all go in the industrial revolution, or due to sheep grazing or what ?

Now more bloody townies will infest the countryside and drop litter etc .Secret Britain will be a bit less so now !!

The Sutton Bank area is my patch, I wish they'd keep quiet about how great it is. 😉

And this...

How many of these 'secret' places will be mobbed with tourists this weekend?

I couldn't help thinking how much nicer the place would have been when it had trees on the hills.

A line from the show 'all this used to be Oak trees'

Made me really sad. Why couldn't they have a tree building programme in such areas or is desolate moorland now considered to be better/'conserved'.

On a different note...

I sent in a couple of contributions when they asked for people to send in pictures of their "secret places" in North Yorkshire, I got an email back from a bloke at the BBC telling me that if I sent them anything like that again they'd call the police 😉

I was hoping for more from this series, the last series seemed better. The only thing I've seen this series I want to take a closer look at is Ellie in her wetsuit.

Could be good but is painful. How Adam Henson has a job as a TV presenter is one of life's great mysteries. Does he have to say" I'm a farmer ", every 2 minutes.

I thought he was a walking advert for twee outdoor brands like Musto

hora - Member

Why couldn't they have a tree building programme in such areas or is desolate moorland now considered to be better/'conserved'.

i've been to a few land-management consultation type meetings, and there's hysteria whenever someone says something like:

'wouldn't it be nice if we let a few trees grow in the peak district, y'know, to provide a little bit more habitat than Grouse-shooting monoculture'

people's heads explode at the mere suggestion that we stop chopping down self-seeded saplings.

Sounded interesting but like a lot of these programmes it turned out to be far too much about the presenters and far too little about the actual places.
Why do they do that bit where they walk up to some local expert they're going to be talking to and introduce themselves as if they haven't met before? And then who needs to see shots of the presenter nodding as they listen?

It reminded me too much of Countryfile. A real shame as it's a good idea and it could be awesome.

A friend of mine shot a lot of the aerial footage for this series.

hora - Member
It gives the average man a glimpse/snapshot of places you possibly never saw before. There will always be viewers who will say 'its my local place that' but like the other episodes I've never seen it before and its literally an hour away from me. It makes me want to GO THERE. Thats the purpose of the programme. How can you cover so many bits of land etc in such a period of time without truncation and trying to keep an audience with you? After all farmland is farmland (n parts).

I enjoyed it as it showed me places that I need to tick off. For that, I'm happy.