Channel 4 have done it again- commissioned a series where the audience to whom they're pitching is so broad as to be useless. The shape of the show is one large building project over a week of episodes, a coupla of craft projects per ep and a few weird home decorating jobs each week, interspersed with what are obviously supposed to be youtube hack type videos. This means that they'll be demonstrating how to do something extremely basic to a professional (watch me drill this sleeper person employed full time as the handyman on this site) making an elderly person who's never touched a screwdriver mitre using a circular table saw, 'upcycling' without masks or other safety equipment on an enclosed bus and then have a vid about grades of sandpaper with no context or examples of where or how to use.
In addition none of the projects offer much inspiration, they're very tacky, old fashioned and basic, the presenters aren't particularly personable or motivating and seems most have never done any teaching before (it is a skill passing on skills you know) and as a disabled person and activist I found the interactions on the first project offensive and bordering on disablist.
In addition none of the projects offer much inspiration, they're very tacky, old fashioned and basic, the presenters aren't particularly personable or motivating and seems most have never done any teaching before (it is a skill passing on skills you know) and as a disabled person and activist I found the interactions on the first project offensive and bordering on disablist.
