historymystery
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:mysmilie_13: I've been flicking over to TJC during my morning cup of tea and lunch, and it's apparently Lifestyle Day. So far, I've seen a selection of horrible, cheap and nasty-looking 'ornaments' and knick-knacks, which culminated during my tea break this afternoon in (1) a statue of some horses, covered in gold-coloured paint, (2) quickly followed by a glass 'ornament' which was supposedly meant to be a tiger, but looked more like a hippo. Poor Chris St Valery was doing his very best to keep things going, at one point said "OK we'll take a little break" and then (as though it couldn't get any worse), he was lumbered with a load of women's scarves to flog and threatened with having to sell a lantern (?assume this is another ornament?) immediately afterwards. At this point, I switched off.
I would love to know what the presenters are thinking - this channel is going more and more away from selling jewellery and more and more towards selling tat. They still sell the odd piece of silver jewellery + gemstone, which are doubtless good value at ten quid or so, but these items are getting rarer and rarer. I should think any presenters with credibility are desperately looking for alternative employment, and how the likes of Derek Marks (ex-Gems TV) and any credible jewellery designers can bear to be associated with a channel selling tat escapes me.
I know many people on here have said the days of shopping channels are coming to an end - having watched today, I fear this may be the case. Not the way to go, in my opinion.
I would love to know what the presenters are thinking - this channel is going more and more away from selling jewellery and more and more towards selling tat. They still sell the odd piece of silver jewellery + gemstone, which are doubtless good value at ten quid or so, but these items are getting rarer and rarer. I should think any presenters with credibility are desperately looking for alternative employment, and how the likes of Derek Marks (ex-Gems TV) and any credible jewellery designers can bear to be associated with a channel selling tat escapes me.
I know many people on here have said the days of shopping channels are coming to an end - having watched today, I fear this may be the case. Not the way to go, in my opinion.