Nuisance hedges - BBC Documentary

[Max-BBC]

MONSTER HEDGES

Do you live in the shadow of a monster hedge? We're making a BBC One documentary

about Britain's biggest hedges. Have you seen one? Is your house blighted by

one? Or are you a proud Leylandii hedge owner? We want to hear from you!

Please call Max on 01865 202099 or email [email protected]

[ratty]

Slow news day?

[Max-BBC]

No. We're trying to make a warm, empathetic, funny and light-hearted observational documentary about an aspect of British life.

[PeckhamRose]

Could we have some good drama instead?

[Dickensman]

Slow ideas day?

We thought about it, came up with hedges being a totally hilarious subject, and now we're clean out of ideas.

Some one had a wonderfully funny story about sewage, but it was crap.

Then we had one about a library, but it got shushed.

Hedge funds might be a laugh unless you've put your money in one.

[Jeremy]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Could we have some good drama instead?

Quite. I wonder what difference in production costs is between a hedge documentary, and something actually worth watching?

[felt-tip]

I can imagine it would have me on the hedge of my seat.

[Max-BBC]

I'm glad to have provoked such a lively discussion!

All I can say is that we have made great documentaries in the past http://www.landmarkfilms.com/ and we hope to carry on doing so with this one. If anyone is affected by an enormous Leylandii hedge, we'd like to hear from them.

[ianr]

> Could we have some good drama instead?

Just google "assaulted neighbour hedge". :)

[KidKruger]

you can film my hedge, it pisses everyone off, i should cut it so the people can get past on the pavement, but it's so cold outside I just can't bring myself to - or it rains and my shears would get messed up.

it's a biggy.

[katie1997]

A late night show on hedge trimming may get some interest.

[Narnia]

Hmm, not quite sure. If the milkman was upset by one and he took it out on a customer who took it out on a cashier in the bank who took it out the till operator in the shop on the way home from work and she took it out on me when I bought my bread, then I suppose so. What fee is involved?

PS Why not just rerun Hairy Women.........I missed it first time?

[Dickensman]

Hey guys is there any vacancies at LandFillFilms.com?

Did you here the one about those comical cigarettes, Fences & Hedges?

[Ms_Lilith]

Interesting slate of previous productions on your site!

[karter]

Daizie should be given a major Part in this documentary.:))

[Ms_Lilith]

Someone out there must have a big bush for you to film!

[Michael Palaeologus]

Cant touch the hedges, the clowns hide behind them.

[ruffers]

You want Dulwich Village I reckon..

[Dickensman]

I would have thought you would most likely find huge hedges in suburbia. They have far more space and more provincial minds.

One case in Lincolnshire was a courtroom battle for several years to get the hedge cut, finally the neighbours got their way and cut it down, only to find a second huge hedge planted a metre inside the first one.

I think it's unlikely for this subject to create much hilarity, as the perpetrators of such hedges are such selfish cretins, and their sparring partners are whingeing anal retentives.

I wish you luck with your project, I fear you will need it to maintain your ratings.

[Ms_Lilith]

This one certainly looks like a bit of a monster!

[Tarot]

That looked o.k to me Lilith.

If a different angle on hedges cpould be made,it would be more interesting,I couldnt sit through yet another crackpot

neighbour feud ,just because one of them is a control freak. Lots of those have been on the tv.

Rather see topiary and more futuristic type projects with hedges and gardens,and some thought given to wild life.

You sure your project manager has not got a beef with his neighbours hedge and wants to do some point scoring.

Education in life is what we need, not education in strife.

[ruffers]

Are you trying to track down Kendo Nagasaki via Mick McManus?

[ianr]

>This one certainly looks like a bit of a monster!

>Attachments: Slug hedge front.jpg (46KB)

Remind it to audition if they ever do a remake of The Shining including the hedge animals.

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