Ground Force
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From (L) Tommy Walsh, Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock.
Ground Force is a BBC "lifestyle" or "makeover" television programme in which a team of gardeners descend on an individual's garden and remake it for the cameras, within two days, against the clock, while that individual is lured away on some pretext. Ground Force premiered January 1, 1998 and ended July 1, 2005.
Alan Titchmarsh hosted the programme between 1997 and 2002, with his colleagues, Charlie Dimmock (who gained much press attention for often working with a shirt, but no bra), Tommy Walsh and Will Shanahan. In one special episode, they worked on Nelson Mandela's garden.
Debuting July 29, 2003 Ground Force America was the U.S. version of Ground Force with the same presenters.
The team also worked on a number of other special projects, including:
- a garden in memory of TV presenter Jill Dando
- the New York Restoration Project garden near Ground Zero in New York
- an Old Servicemens' Home garden in Jamaica
- a Children's Home garden in New Delhi, India
After Titchmarsh's departure, the other three continued as presenters with Kirsty King joining the team as well. They also filmed new, five- minute segments to be appended onto repeats of earlier episodes, revisiting the gardens concerned, to surprise the owners and see how the gardens had developed.
The Ground Force team's grand finale aired in July 2005. The final episode took place in the forecourt of the British Museum in London, where the team designed and created the Africa Garden as part of the Africa 05 celebration, the biggest celebration of African culture ever organized in the UK. The design of the garden features temperate, tropical and desert zones.
An Australian version of Ground Force aired in the early 2000s on the Seven Network. An American version was inspired and produced for BBC America as "Ground Force America"
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