John52 Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Just noticed Series 2 starts New Years Day on channel 5 at 9pm - 10pm I thought Series 1 was good Don't know if its allowed under the new censorship? Lets hope they don't mention the B word 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithl Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Agree, season was 1 was better than I expected so look forward to season 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinM50 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Yeah, we thought S1 good too. The site they stayed at in Weston Supermare, we'd previously stayed at a couple of times previously. A couple of months after their stay was on TV, I called the site to book us a stay, we were going to a wedding in Ilfracombe and WSM was sort of midway. Lady there laughed and said since they'd been on TV they'd been fully booked and had no room for us. Shows the power of TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpyman Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 I thought it pretty boring far to contrived perhaps was expecting something more intresting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydney1 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 23 minutes ago, Grumpyman said: I thought it pretty boring far to contrived perhaps was expecting something more intresting. Yes like portable pampas grass pots 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted January 2, 2023 Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 On 12/27/2022 at 11:05 AM, Grumpyman said: far to contrived I suppose it was They avoided the controversy of parking motorhomes near St Michael's mount by driving past saying they hadn't got time to stop. What? They drive past a world heritage site to get to a field where there isn't even a path down to the sea. When its still light enough to decorate the van and sit down outside to prepare a meal. You have to look for the clues I suppose. Overhead drone shots of the car park (apparently had time to take those) with no motorhomes in. Roadside hedges not maintained and sticking out into the road giving motorhomers the choice of smashing their mirrors etc. or crossing the centreline of the road into oncoming traffic. The free public beachside lay by we all used now blocked off to force traffic to use St Aubin's expensive no motorhomes private car park. That aside, I still found it entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david lloyd Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Not a bad way to earn a living I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulmold Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Don't know where they found Henry's Campsite, not listed on Search4sites and if you Google it, the websites 'news' is last dated 2019, obviously people know it as there were other vans and campers there, I just wonder how the production team do their research. The motorhome also changed identity from a Swift to a Roller Team sometime during the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 2 hours ago, paulmold said: Don't know where they found Henry's Campsite, not listed on Search4sites and if you Google it, the websites 'news' is last dated 2019, obviously people know it as there were other vans and campers there, I just wonder how the production team do their research. The motorhome also changed identity from a Swift to a Roller Team sometime during the show. I've enquired twice at Henry's about a pitch whilst at Lizard, both times where out of season but they where full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 6 hours ago, John52 said: I suppose it was They avoided the controversy of parking motorhomes near St Michael's mount by driving past saying they hadn't got time to stop. What? They drive past a world heritage site to get to a field where there isn't even a path down to the sea. When its still light enough to decorate the van and sit down outside to prepare a meal. You have to look for the clues I suppose. Overhead drone shots of the car park (apparently had time to take those) with no motorhomes in. Roadside hedges not maintained and sticking out into the road giving motorhomers the choice of smashing their mirrors etc. or crossing the centreline of the road into oncoming traffic. The free public beachside lay by we all used now blocked off to force traffic to use St Aubin's expensive no motorhomes private car park. That aside, I still found it entertaining. They didn't just drive past, they drove from south coast to north coast. Like all of these programs we viewed it as a bit of entertainment, not infotainment. It's about a mile walk from the site they stayed on to the coast walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GandJP Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 I watched about 10 minutes and that was enough to confirm why I go abroad to do my touring. If I do go anywhere here its just to a site where we can sit and rest or get a taxi into the nearest town for a bit of shopping and a pub lunch. Absolute rubbish programme  as far as I am concerned.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adiebt Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 I tour extensively both home and abroad and this programme in my opinion was dire , lazy and mostly nothing to do with motorhoming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick the wanderer Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Hi, yeah I never cared for it much, I was expecting more about motorhomes and got a tourist film about Cornwall. The caravan and motorhome review shows are better on Ayozat even though they are many years old. Maybe it will get better, I didn't think the 1st series was that bad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydney1 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 Bit bland tbh and turned off after 15mins. Not quite sure who it was aimed at, existing motorhomers or to attract new but seems a bit too compromised for either. Rumour has it on at least one occasion, the motorhome arrived on a site driven by the film crew who set it up for the couple to arrive in a car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david lloyd Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 20 hours ago, Sydney1 said: Bit bland tbh and turned off after 15mins. Not quite sure who it was aimed at, existing motorhomers or to attract new but seems a bit too compromised for either. Rumour has it on at least one occasion, the motorhome arrived on a site driven by the film crew who set it up for the couple to arrive in a car. That’s showbiz…… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 2 hours ago, david lloyd said: That’s showbiz…… Indeed, and I don't think it was ever promoted as anything else. I've been involved with several 'factual' tv programs, and magazine article, my advise would be take everything you see or read with a pinch of salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted January 16, 2023 Author Share Posted January 16, 2023 I lost track the changes of motorhomes last night. It showed them inside a Swift Escape, pulling shut the outside door for the night, but the next frame was of them in the bedroom of a different motorhome? But I still found it entertaining 🙂  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotjimland Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 watched it last night for all of 10 minutes .. what a load of rubbish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevec176 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Unfortunately I have to agree, didn't see the point of the program, wasn't really doing anything as a tourist program or anything about motorhoming, shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malc d Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 2 hours ago, stevec176 said: Unfortunately I have to agree, didn't see the point of the program, wasn't really doing anything as a tourist program or anything about motorhoming, shame. I think the current TV trend is to create " personalities " ( most of whom I've never heard of ) and get them to do something ( anything ) on Telly to attract people who like personalities. Content is not necessarily very important. ( I HAVE heard of Paul Merton by the way ).😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted January 17, 2023 Author Share Posted January 17, 2023 15 hours ago, malc d said: Content is not necessarily very important. Exactly I guess the point of the programme is to drive viewing figures and advertising revenue Having celebrities who can talk gets people to watch it, and they can open doors and get the film crew into places the ordinary motorhomer couldn't. (Like Portillo does in Great Railway Journeys, who looks nothing like any other railway passenger I have seen because he is always immaculately turned out but never carries any luggage) So we get stuff like this, and Susan Calman who apparently doesn't even sleep in her motorhome. But I find it entertaining. I agree the programmes would be a more accurate reflection of motorhoming if it was fronted by real motorhomers. But we can come on here for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 These imdb.com reviews of the TV series may be of interest. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15151520/reviews I wonder how entertaining a 'real world' series fronted by a married couple of 'real motorhomers' would be. I can imagine - in the middle of the night - the wife waking her husband and saying "Whose idea was it to holiday on this awful Welsh campsite in this awful Welsh weather? Why aren't we spending the winter in warm sunny Spain like we used to?" Then follows a long diatribe from the husband about Brexit and the Schengen area limitations. "And I'm not feeling very well", adds the wife, provoking an unsympathetic lecture about how the NHS was on its knees as a result of the UK government's years of mismanagement. A half-hour later the wife visits the toilet compartment and wakes her now-snoring husband again. "You forgot to shut the toilet's roof-light", she accuses. "No I didn't", he replies. "Then why is the toilet floor like a lake?" asks the wife. Much floor sponging follows, but eventually both get back to bed, with the husband dreaming of Claudia Winkleman and the wife thinking about how much a divorce would cost. Dawn breaks and the wife interrupts her husband's dancing-with-Claudia dream. "Where's the dog?" she asks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamRienza Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 I watched part of one of the first series but wasn’t drawn to it. However it surely beats the endless drivel such as love island, I’m a celebrity, et al that’s before we mention the dancing in all shades and don’t forget the endless convoluted quiz shows. i must say that as soon as I see a programme prefixed by the name of some self appointed ‘celebrity’ presenter. Sue Perkins Asia trip or similar, I switch channels. my wife is an avid follower of the pottery, baking, sewing, and gardening programmes however they tend to have some skills involved.  Davy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david lloyd Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 On 1/17/2023 at 9:36 AM, Derek Uzzell said: These imdb.com reviews of the TV series may be of interest. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15151520/reviews I wonder how entertaining a 'real world' series fronted by a married couple of 'real motorhomers' would be. I can imagine - in the middle of the night - the wife waking her husband and saying "Whose idea was it to holiday on this awful Welsh campsite in this awful Welsh weather? Why aren't we spending the winter in warm sunny Spain like we used to?" Then follows a long diatribe from the husband about Brexit and the Schengen area limitations. "And I'm not feeling very well", adds the wife, provoking an unsympathetic lecture about how the NHS was on its knees as a result of the UK government's years of mismanagement. A half-hour later the wife visits the toilet compartment and wakes her now-snoring husband again. "You forgot to shut the toilet's roof-light", she accuses. "No I didn't", he replies. "Then why is the toilet floor like a lake?" asks the wife. Much floor sponging follows, but eventually both get back to bed, with the husband dreaming of Claudia Winkleman and the wife thinking about how much a divorce would cost. Dawn breaks and the wife interrupts her husband's dancing-with-Claudia dream. "Where's the dog?" she asks. How much of this extremely entertaining description (far more than the programme itself) is personal experience Derek? I only ask because we may have had very similar trips! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GandJP Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Derek, you need to write the scripts for the tv companies as yours is far funnier than anything Merton and Webster came out with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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