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RIP Nigel

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RIP Nigel

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Postby Breelander » May 15th, 2020, 11:41 pm

Star of Gardeners World, Nigel has passed away.

https://www.gardenersworld.com/news/monty-on-nigel/

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby bungeejumper » May 16th, 2020, 8:25 am

Weird, I was sure I saw Nigel on last night's episode? Possible, of course, since parts of GW are self-evidently filmed well in advance. (For example, Monty was recently complaining about the heavy rains during a very long dry spell, and he always seems to be a couple of weeks behind the rest of southern England with his roses or his camassias, or whatever. And a couple of weeks too late with his seed sowing. ;) )

Then again, maybe it was Nell the understudy that we saw? I'm losing track. Don't mean to be tasteless, but somebody remind me, how many identical Sheps did Blue Peter get through?

BJ

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby Dod101 » May 16th, 2020, 8:27 am

Breelander wrote:Star of Gardeners World, Nigel has passed away.

https://www.gardenersworld.com/news/monty-on-nigel/


What a horrible website!

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby Mike4 » May 16th, 2020, 8:45 am

Blimey I clicked the link as the only Nigel I could think of seeing the headline, was Nigel Farage.

:lol:

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby Nimrod103 » May 16th, 2020, 8:51 am

bungeejumper wrote:Weird, I was sure I saw Nigel on last night's episode? Possible, of course, since parts of GW are self-evidently filmed well in advance. (For example, Monty was recently complaining about the heavy rains during a very long dry spell, and he always seems to be a couple of weeks behind the rest of southern England with his roses or his camassias, or whatever. And a couple of weeks too late with his seed sowing. ;) )

Then again, maybe it was Nell the understudy that we saw? I'm losing track. Don't mean to be tasteless, but somebody remind me, how many identical Sheps did Blue Peter get through?

BJ


I have always assumed they* filmed GW during the week up to the Friday showing. Long Meadow is located in deepest Herefordshire where I suspect there might be a local microclimate. This video gives an indication of how some parts of the programme (in this case a visit to an allotment in the IoM) are produced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jji_7WG2D44

I can tolerate Monty up to a point, and I love the dogs, but Swift, Frost and Carol Klein just turn it into a freak show. All IMHO of course. Generally I prefer Beechgrove.

*At present of course it is all being filmed using automatic cameras with nobody else present, I assume.

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby bungeejumper » May 16th, 2020, 9:04 am

Nimrod103 wrote:*At present of course it is all being filmed using automatic cameras with nobody else present, I assume.

I'm pretty sure that they're doing things a bit differently now. There's a lot of camera panning and other stuff that doesn't look very auto to me, but maybe I'm out of touch with what auto can do?

Swift, Frost and Carol Klein will never be everyone's cup of tea - FWIW, I used to find Adam Frost's chummy Lunnon camera manner rather grating, but I think he just needed time to settle down. Whereas Monty's plummy vowels still sound faintly annoying to me. But I suppose the BBC has to ring the regional changes with the presenters? It certainly isn't all about how much you know, or Toby Buckland would have wiped the floor with all of them.

RIP Nigel, anyway.

BJ

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby dealtn » May 16th, 2020, 10:26 am

bungeejumper wrote:
Don't mean to be tasteless, but somebody remind me, how many identical Sheps did Blue Peter get through?



Er, one!

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby bungeejumper » May 16th, 2020, 11:29 am

dealtn wrote:
bungeejumper wrote:Don't mean to be tasteless, but somebody remind me, how many identical Sheps did Blue Peter get through?

Er, one!

Er, you're right. It was Petra who had two TV lifetimes, one of them very short. And allegedly a third, after the second incarnation became too stroppy for the studio environment. My bad.

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby Rhyd6 » May 18th, 2020, 5:20 pm

It took e a while to get used to Alan Titchmarsh when Geoff Hamilton sadly popped his clogs but I gave up on Monty Don. Don't know why but I just can't take to the man.

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby Breelander » May 18th, 2020, 5:37 pm

Rhyd6 wrote:... I gave up on Monty Don. Don't know why but I just can't take to the man.


Probably because he never missed an opportunity to push 'green' issues at a time when it was very much a 'fringe' position (eg peat-free compost, don't use plastic pots, etc.). I too found that a little uncomfortable to watch at the time, but not now that 'going green' is acceptably mainstream.

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Re: RIP Nigel

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Postby bluedonkey » May 18th, 2020, 5:42 pm

I give credit to the help the dog gave Monty with his depression. On a more trivial note, this quote of Monty's caused me to stifle a laugh: "what he had was this absolute sense of purity. He exuded a kind of unsullied innocence". Nigel WAS A DOG, for goodness' sake! Monty does get carried away a bit sometimes.


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