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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Beewyched on March 24, 2011, 08:05:13 pm
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Final just started on BBC2, neither of them deserve to win - it should be me :D :D- off to watch now!!!
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nope me
:love: :love: :love:
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We applied for the show and got shortlisted - then didn't get through. Have been following it on TV since....
Sat down to watch the final tonight but our TV has packed up! Great timing.
Will just add to the 'should have been me' thread.....
Who won?!
J
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Just watching myself, bet its NOT the old couple, how could you sell just bread with stew in it? nice it may be but when you are at a game fair with your hands full you need something easy to eat!!! Back to TV
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The ???? Ray a jANE, Nice :D
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ray and jane won it
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Is that the Geordies?
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aye tis
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Great thanks!
Would be interesting if they did a follow up in a year to show us how they had got on.....
J
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Great thanks!
Would be interesting if they did a follow up in a year to show us how they had got on.....
J
I think they will probably be taking film of them as they go along. Did we ever get the true prize details?
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no real details
we never saw the farm or got the details of there financial backing etc...
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I'd guess then in that case that there will be a follow up programme or series
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It still should have been me ;D
£18 a week on pasta sauce & selling a few packs of minty burgers - wow like they're gonna make a living from it ::)
No wonder Jimmy's not giving the details of the financial backers - their shares would crash overnight :D :D :D
They need the follow-up to cover the losses ;)
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It reeked of a fix the whole way through. I was fairly certain the Geordies would win but the older couple were whisked off-screen pretty promptly once the winners were announced - ??? The business plans were both laughable, but the Geordies' was ok with Jimmy because 'they know they need help', whereas the others' was just totally knocked. I suppose he had to choose one couple out of a cast of two.
Why did they put an untrained sheepdog into the mix for the sheep task? Just to give it LCD appeal I suppose.
I enjoyed the ploughing and seeding bit, mostly because I wanted to have a go on that lovely tractor :farmer:
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im glad they won at least its got the younger (as such! :P) ones going into farming..ive been very synical of the whole thing but i do hope they make a go of it and would like to see a follow up also.......
i think if they get the marketing help they could do better than they think...hope its enough though. :-\
good luck to them anyway........ ;D ;)
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No wonder Jimmy's not giving the details of the financial backers - their shares would crash overnight :D :D :D
I'm guessing the backers are the TV company...
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Do you need a famous mentor, preferably rich and a TV contract to go into farming?..If so:
WANTED
Mentor, Preferably Rich.
Must have "Loads of Money" and a big TV Contract.
(ITV or BBC contracts accepted Sky at a push!)
Apply:......
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Being fromt' North... i'm glad Jayne & Ray won but what a poor ending for the programme... no inffo as to the next step...poss followup.. kiss my bum nor nowt......... when did or does their year start? are they part way thro now.. it would have been nice to have had a minute at the end with an update.
Mandy :pig:
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Still reckon it should have been me ;) if it was I could have been giving updates on here ;D
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Now, I winder if anyone on here knows them or knows someone who knows someone who.............................. ;)
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Being from t' North... i'm glad Jayne & Ray won
Aye, me too
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Now ... there's a thought ... ;D
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Really glad they won in the end, did feel sorry for other couple but sure they'll go on to do something with animals maybe get a smallholding. Hopefully Ray and Jayne will get plenty of support during this year with farm planning and marketing. Good luck to them both and look forward to the followup :farmer:
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Now, I winder if anyone on here knows them or knows someone who knows someone who.............................. ;)
I do. ;)
I know both of the people who did the shepherding tasks in programme three very well, particularly Bob with the beard. As I understand it they have kept in touch with the winners. Next time I speak to Bob, I will ask him for an update.
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I know one of the couples who appeared.
Let me know your questions and we will answer them.
It was fixed all along
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If there was to be one semi corporate establishment left to rest in peace in this world I would choose the BBC imo.
As a first time poster secretcontestant I would ask you for some kind of- well quantifiable credentials other than a knock to the 'back of the head' be it ours, the winners or contest as a whole?
Baz
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If there was to be one semi corporate establishment left to rest in peace in this world I would choose the BBC imo.
As a first time poster secretcontestant I would ask you for some kind of- well quantifiable credentials other than a knock to the 'back of the head' be it ours, the winners or contest as a whole?
Baz
Yes, strange that Secretcontestant is totally secretive - wonder why? No info on profile at all.
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An update - doesn't give much away though........
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wear/hi/front_page/newsid_9435000/9435703.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wear/hi/front_page/newsid_9435000/9435703.stm)