Pottery Throwdown - 8th January

[NumbersStation]

Coming back - to channel 4. Let us hope that they don’t muller it like they did GBBO.

Melanie Sykes is hosting. I wish they’d kept Sara.

Let us hope channel 4 grab Fern and resurrect my allotment challenge too.

Mel can keep her knobs and we can do without slipping down the shaft tightly. I’m not really loving Mel but I’m trying to give her a chance. I just miss Sara.

She would have made the innuendos a bit more ooo-er Missus. I’m getting more of a filth stance from Mel.

First crying aww!

Was thinking Mel was new to this. Tears already.

And the first tear from Keith - love him.

More tears!

The skyline and the lilypad set are my favourites.

L-O-V-E this show! Loved it on the beeb and thinks it’s got promise on 4

BTW that Keith bloke has all his pottery line made ABROAD

Loved it! deserving winner, this show has cheered me up :)

they all do once they get big enough to mas produce unfortunately. My friend worked in a factory churning out Damien Hirst "originals"

I don't think Sara or anyone hosting it adds anything to the show - sewing bee too, though I like Claudia. They don't know about the subject and just ask dumb questions or inane comments. I don't see why the judges can't host it with a decent narrator.

Thought they made the right choices. Love Keith being so emotional.

Pottery Throwdown & Sewing Bee still give me the fuzzies that I haven't felt from GBBO since it's apex Season 6. It still feels a little homespun and not yet too slick or up it's own backside.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I treasure the 2 Seasons of Great British Allotment Challenge as the "one that got away".

@The4thSandersonSister

You are not alone. I miss that one.

Oh I enjoyed this too. I think the new judge is very good and I actually really liked Melanie Sykes. She went up in my estimation when revealed as a brass player.

The4thSandersonSister and NumbersStation, I am also an Allotment Challenge fan and miss it terribly!

Slightly different, but I'd also love a new series of Monty Don's Big Dreams, Small Spaces.

Husband - I think she really played that!
Me - why not, she's proper brass band northern.

I thought she did really well.

Oh yes to Monty Don too.

I’m hoping to warm to Mel but I thought She was a bit ‘now me - my turn me, me me me’ yesterday.

Fair doos for having a puff on the brass though!

I had to search through the channels to find this. Why has it moved to More Four? It’s definitely up there with GBBO and Sewing Bee.

Numbers, Melanie Sykes was a member of a brass band in her youth. She played baritone horn. Not sure how long it is since she’s played seriously though!

Thank you @Halsall

Fair play to her. I only managed the triangle

I can’t stand Keith crying.

I enjoyed it but can’t help feeling as if they’ve decided to turn Keith’s tears into the equivalent of a Hollywood handshake on bake off. The seal of approval as it were for a task well executed. I don’t doubt that he does get overcome with emotion at times but suddenly it seems far more frequent than it was on the last series - 2 or was it 3 times in the first episode?

Didn’t mind Melanie Sykes really.