Travel programmes on tv

I didn't watch Lorraine Kelly.Cant stand her and I am Scottish. I thought she would probably have her husband,daughter and granddaughter on the trip!!!

J52

Riversidegirl

How many more of these are we going to get? So-called celebs getting free holidays, showing us stuff we have seen many times before. Latest offering is Favourite Railway Stations by the remaining Hairy Biker who I have never heard of. If I see one more free trip up Snowdon.......

Funnily enough I was thinking the same this morning when I looked at the TV listings. Perhaps it would make a good programme to pick random people from the electoral role and offer them a lovely holiday.

I say that I'd like to see ordinary families, pensioners and single travellers navigating these things. I hate it that those with the money are getting the freebies. I think that ordinary people with not much money would get so much more out of it.

I do love Palin’s travel programmes. He always seemed to connect with the peoples he visited. Though I do think he was a bit of a typical Englishman abroad, very charming but a bit daft.

Chatting at a TV quiz show with a celebrity who does holiday programmes. She said it was not a free holiday and that sometimes she arrives by air in the morning, is filming in the afternoon and the next day and then flies home the following morning. When she has done cruise programmes she never gets to do the whole cruise, but is flown home from whichever port is convenient. It’s a job - probably more fun than stacking shelves in a supermarket, and more lucrative- but not always a holiday.

Totally agree with you all! Freebies for them all! They should take us (real people, with real needs)
And investigate why so many companies charge extra for ‘single’ travellers!

I love Joanna Lumley‘s travel programs….

Whicker’s world was always interesting, never boring.

I am also fed up with these t.v. Presenters swanning around on paid jollies.

Jane McDonald being a prime example.

And don’t get me started on Rylan and Rib Rinder.

They can easily afford to pay to go to these places.
That’s what mainly annoys me.

Why does this bother you so much?

It is not as if there only was one TV channel these days.

There are plenty, and sites like Netflix where you can download films and other programmes.

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Tusue

It might be at odds with others opinions but I’d like to see an “ordinary family “ ie not loaded financially getting to be treated to a holiday somewhere they might otherwise never go to and being allowed to give honest opinions and views on their travels , hotels,food and locality .

But it is almost bound to be an "ordinary family" that is known to someone on the production team.
Personally I'd like to see an OAP couple like my husband and myself get a holiday to somewhere lovely. (Happy to provide my name and address on request!)
We don't take foreign holidays and very rarely stay anywhere other than in our family holiday home, where I am chief cook and bottlewasher. Come to think of it, a nice night away with a good dinner in a renowned restaurant would be enough for us, much cheaper than trolling around abroad...

sorry my post seems to have echoed yours, but totally agree, let's see some real and unfake people on there, as you say, IF skullduggery by the production teams can be ruled out !

Yes, it gets my goat, all these so called celebrities who have enough money to pay for themselves to go to these destinations, it feels like we are having our noses rubbed in it. You can tell as well, that as they ARE 'Celebrities' they get to see things on trips we could not in a sort of 'Behind the scnes' type of way and often bowl to the front of queues, always get a table in a cafe etc etc. I like to see the different places but why can't thy select real families, couples, solo travellers etc and show us how they get on, what they think, if they find it expensive etc.

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I also enjoy Monty Don's travels to gardens

Very interesting look around Swiss Gardens along the Rhein last night, and fascinating facts about the communities living there. Visited Zürich and Basel too. Also Austria and Liechtenstein.
Germany next week.

Tusue

It might be at odds with others opinions but I’d like to see an “ordinary family “ ie not loaded financially getting to be treated to a holiday somewhere they might otherwise never go to and being allowed to give honest opinions and views on their travels , hotels,food and locality .

But it is almost bound to be an "ordinary family" that is known to someone on the production team.
Personally I'd like to see an OAP couple like my husband and myself get a holiday to somewhere lovely. (Happy to provide my name and address on request!)
We don't take foreign holidays and very rarely stay anywhere other than in our family holiday home, where I am chief cook and bottlewasher. Come to think of it, a nice night away with a good dinner in a renowned restaurant would be enough for us, much cheaper than trolling around abroad...

I also enjoy Monty Don's travels to gardens

It might be at odds with others opinions but I’d like to see an “ordinary family “ ie not loaded financially getting to be treated to a holiday somewhere they might otherwise never go to and being allowed to give honest opinions and views on their travels , hotels,food and locality .

I used to love watching Alan Whicker.

He seemed such a gent, and really interested in the people he met.

Can remember one ordinary lady somewhere in the USA, no idea now what she did, but he described her as ‘gallant’.

So appropriate.

Fallingstar

Simon Reeve and Michael Portillo provide an informative travel programme, Reeve often giving a social commentary.
I agree that far too often it just seems that celebs are simply filmed having their jollies.
Not sure if anyone remembers Whicker’s World, I used to like that.

Yes. I watched one recently that someone posted on another forum. Very much ‘of it’s time’! But groundbreaking all the same. I must admit that, now my travelling days seem to be over ( still struggle with accepting that, though) it’s good to be able to travel the world from my sofa even if it’s in company that I find slightly irritating ( I’d probably get on their nerves, too!)

Simon Reeve and Michael Portillo provide an informative travel programme, Reeve often giving a social commentary.
I agree that far too often it just seems that celebs are simply filmed having their jollies.
Not sure if anyone remembers Whicker’s World, I used to like that.

M0nica

Why not watch a different programme or do something else.

I think we have a right to question how our money is spent if it is a BBC programme.

After all, as they keep telling us - it is funded by us.

M0nica

Why not watch a different programme or do something else.

I don't watch many of them but do like Michael Portillo, Simon Reeve and Monty Don because they are not just celebs jumping on the latest bandwagon.
Ben Fogle's programmes are interesting, too.

I think we get so many celebs making programmes for which they are not suited because it keeps them in a job, not because they are talented presenters.

I'm a natural optimist Petra and Norway is so beautiful that perhaps she'll be struck dumb in wonder!

I like the Travel Man series. 48 Hours in. I used to collect ( in my travelling days) the 48 Hours in Paris or wherever that used to be in The Observer. I think I’ve still got them stored away somewhere. I don’t class Simon Reeve in the same category as Lorraine Kelly etc as he’s very informative and political. I think most of these programmes are cheap television and seem to be set up by celebrities own production companies. I do quite like the Robson Green series because he genuinely loves the area ( one featured Warkworth the other week and it was wonderful to see what is one of my favourite walks). Michael Portillo series are good but it annoys me that he was part of a government that did very little to help the railways. Not a travel programme as such but Ben Fogles New Lives in the Wild is fascinating.

GrannyGravy13

I like travel shows, have booked holidays having watched some of them.

I only watch the ones with presenters who I like or if I am really interested in where they are going.

Same for me. I like to get ideas of new places I might not have visited.

Foxie48
What do you mean if she gets annoying it’s Lorraine Kelly.
It’s a given.

I do enjoy some of the travel programs, although I will not watch Lorraine Kelly. Ythe one thing that really gets me is when the presenter says things like’ oh I ‘m not sure where this place is ‘ orI wonder if I can find’ as if they sort all the travel and meetings for themselves. Please can someone tell me how they travel half way around the word with no luggage.
I will watch Simon Reeves in anything. He is always giving credit to his team. He does a very good stage show too.