Alan Titchmarsh is to front a rival to BBC’s Countryfile on ITV – aimed at viewers who do not like Sunday morning politics or cookery shows.
Love Your Weekend, which goes head-to-head with The Andrew Marr Show is being billed as a celebration of “all that is great about the British countryside, art, crafts, manufacturing and produce”.
Gardener Titchmarsh said: “It seemed to me it’s such an obvious gap on a weekend morning, where it’s either politics or cooking and you might not want either at the weekend, good as they are.” One feature of the series is a Tree of the Week slot – the first of which sees Birds of a Feather actress Lesley Joseph hailing the beech as “Britain’s sexiest tree”.
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