TV review: Location, Location, Location

Location, Location, Location presenters Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp. Photo/File

To be honest it's not a programme I'd watch regularly because it's yet another property show and it doesn't present you with the over-glitzed properties American shows are wont to.

Only reason Location, Location, Location got me back on a watch this week was because the two presenters, longtime property "trudge-along" agents Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp were faced with doing their damnedest to sell popular hot spots in Devon.

Small towns especially like seaside darling Crossington have become the A list places to settle with your pedigree dawg, fluffy cat and maybe 1.0 kids.

This reality show follows our agents as they try to find the perfect home for a different set of buyers weekly in towns and around Great Britain.

However, whether the budget is huge, middling or bones of your bum stuff, Brit home seekers are closely aligned with those Brit tourists constantly tripping abroad.

You know, the ones that are ever maligned because all they do is whinge.

And I would go so far as to say that though Phil and Kirstie are rather humdrum I have compassion for the pair for they are literally agents who border on marriage counsellors as well.

No kidding - their would-be, querulous buyers snivel, dribble and gripe constantly.

In this programme both buying couples were adamant where they wanted to buy, how big the garden should be, how the house should be designed, how busy the road should be and nothing but nothing else that deviated (even slightly) would be tolerated.

Phil and Kirstie's asides are worth watching the show for.

They run the full gamut of teeth-grinding, eyes glassing over, eyebrows melding into a mono, lips pinching and pouting, not to mention the heaving and lurching of shoulders behind the shrubs when they think they're not being watched.

But really as we all know in Whanganui these days this real estate bizo is taking the biscuit so to speak.

That big double-chocolate biscuit with lashings of icing sprinkles.

Seems everyone wants to move here now.

Guess what, we're popular. We're hot and we're happening.

So to all those Wangers estate agents who are busy totting up their sale percentages (which are mostly too high) they need to pander and counsel their clients as well.

Not simply sell a house then yell "next''.

However, our Brit ''plodders'' are out on Location, Location, Location and though the show is rather pedestrian it is well produced.