The Cruise Ship on ITV
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I wonder what "input" the cruise line have with the final programme.
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If it's anything like when I was filmed for Heir Hunters, no say whatsoeverdavid63 wrote:I wonder what "input" the cruise line have with the final programme.
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they do sail from the UK - or at least Emerald does - I'm guarding the house of friends who return to Soton from the Baltic on Emerald later todaySilver_Shiney wrote:
Unless I've missed something, the UK is a destination, they don't do cruises from here.
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Is that the programme about people who have lost a toupeeSilver_Shiney wrote:
If it's anything like when I was filmed for Heir Hunters, no say whatsoever
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the programme was grim.
OH picked up on someone with an open necked shirt on formal night..
I commented that the perks given to elite passengers ( laundry ) meant they brought in all their stuff mucky for a free wash, and the 'suits clearly had no idea of the impact of this perk on ship's services
OH picked up on someone with an open necked shirt on formal night..
I commented that the perks given to elite passengers ( laundry ) meant they brought in all their stuff mucky for a free wash, and the 'suits clearly had no idea of the impact of this perk on ship's services
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Meg 50 wrote:the programme was grim.
OH picked up on someone with an open necked shirt on formal night..
I commented that the perks given to elite passengers ( laundry ) meant they brought in all their stuff mucky for a free wash, and the 'suits clearly had no idea of the impact of this perk on ship's services
Perhaps some Elite members where offering half price laundry to non Elite members
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next week (quote from RT):
2/4. Cruise director Sam faces stiff competition from her power-hungry deputy Dan, who sets about creating a new game show on board the Royal Princess in an attempt to outdo his superior. But will his gamble pay off? Meanwhile, as spa worker Kelly struggles to adjust to life at sea, the ship's mother hen Liz offers comfort and encouragement to the new girl. Narrated by John Thomson.
2/4. Cruise director Sam faces stiff competition from her power-hungry deputy Dan, who sets about creating a new game show on board the Royal Princess in an attempt to outdo his superior. But will his gamble pay off? Meanwhile, as spa worker Kelly struggles to adjust to life at sea, the ship's mother hen Liz offers comfort and encouragement to the new girl. Narrated by John Thomson.
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I'm taking the formal night scenes with a pinch of salt. For all we know, they shot some generic 'evening scenes' and used that footage to represent formal nightsMeg 50 wrote:
OH picked up on someone with an open necked shirt on formal night..
Likewise with Mandy, that probably picked her because she was larger than life and likely to be annoying. If they picked someone normal, they think it wouldn't be half as interesting. I'm not going to let one person (possibly planted) colour my view of Princess passengers and Princess Cruises in general.
But I felt sorry for Mandy's husband, he clearly wasn't comfortable
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Ray Scully wrote:Is that the programme about people who have lost a toupeeSilver_Shiney wrote:
If it's anything like when I was filmed for Heir Hunters, no say whatsoever
Ray
are you wigging me?
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The Ruby Princess is also sailing from the UK this summer, and Princess will have 2 ships sailing from Southampton in 2015.Meg 50 wrote:they do sail from the UK - or at least Emerald does - I'm guarding the house of friends who return to Soton from the Baltic on Emerald later todaySilver_Shiney wrote:
Unless I've missed something, the UK is a destination, they don't do cruises from here.
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........I'm taking the formal night scenes with a pinch of salt. For all we know, they shot some generic 'evening scenes' and used that footage to represent formal nights.......
They seemed to mix up Captains Welcome party with canapés, and dancing in the atrium. Those two things don't happen together, at the same time. So you are exactly right Gill.
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It was a bad a programme as I expected it to be.
They just don't seem able to make a documentary about cruising as we have experienced it.
I'll still tune in for the next three though
They just don't seem able to make a documentary about cruising as we have experienced it.
I'll still tune in for the next three though
Empty vessels .. and all that
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Let's face it, if they portrayed cruising as it really is, would it make compulsive viewing? Programme makers nowadays always want to portray their subject as something wild and eccentric. I think we may be wrong in thinking the programme would be factual and would portray cruising as it really is.
Having watched the Fred Olsen series and now started on this one, if I didn't know better, it would scare me off cruising for ever. Who, in their right mind would want to spend their holidays cooped up in some sort of surreal asylum?
Why don't they show normal(ish) people like cornmillgirl, Carole, Michele and Frank Manning? (and others on here I have yet to meet!!)
Having watched the Fred Olsen series and now started on this one, if I didn't know better, it would scare me off cruising for ever. Who, in their right mind would want to spend their holidays cooped up in some sort of surreal asylum?
Why don't they show normal(ish) people like cornmillgirl, Carole, Michele and Frank Manning? (and others on here I have yet to meet!!)
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Well one things for sure you'll never get tbe onelife clan stepping foot on something that looks like a container ship no matter how they dress it up.
This program will do Princes cruises no favours, indeed the whole cruise industry must be cringing having watched this unmitigated PR disaster. If l was a 'young' prospective first time cruiser this program would have put me off cruising for life.
Edited or not Mandy along with her squeak squeak husband would do my head in.
It looked to me like the whole ship could have done with some children running around in an attempt to wake up the walking dead.
Rubbish program!!
This program will do Princes cruises no favours, indeed the whole cruise industry must be cringing having watched this unmitigated PR disaster. If l was a 'young' prospective first time cruiser this program would have put me off cruising for life.
Edited or not Mandy along with her squeak squeak husband would do my head in.
It looked to me like the whole ship could have done with some children running around in an attempt to wake up the walking dead.
Rubbish program!!
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I suppose we could always nominate Stephen, Keefy Onelife and Dark Knight for the next series - oh no, I've just noticed you said normal(ish) people.oldbluefox wrote:Let's face it, if they portrayed cruising as it really is, would it make compulsive viewing? Programme makers nowadays always want to portray their subject as something wild and eccentric. I think we may be wrong in thinking the programme would be factual and would portray cruising as it really is.
Having watched the Fred Olsen series and now started on this one, if I didn't know better, it would scare me off cruising for ever. Who, in their right mind would want to spend their holidays cooped up in some sort of surreal asylum?
Why don't they show normal(ish) people like cornmillgirl, Carole, Michele and Frank Manning? (and others on here I have yet to meet!!)
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You had me worried for a moment Maureen. By nominating them I would have had to include you, just for nominating them!!!
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Now I don't want to make Batty too big headed, but I have shared a cruise with him and Lady Dark and would prefer to repeat that experience than spend 30 seconds with that vet and her husband! Mind you, he looked as if he felt the same.Kenmo1 wrote:I suppose we could always nominate Stephen, Keefy Onelife and Dark Knight for the next series - oh no, I've just noticed you said normal(ish) people.oldbluefox wrote:Let's face it, if they portrayed cruising as it really is, would it make compulsive viewing? Programme makers nowadays always want to portray their subject as something wild and eccentric. I think we may be wrong in thinking the programme would be factual and would portray cruising as it really is.
Having watched the Fred Olsen series and now started on this one, if I didn't know better, it would scare me off cruising for ever. Who, in their right mind would want to spend their holidays cooped up in some sort of surreal asylum?
Why don't they show normal(ish) people like cornmillgirl, Carole, Michele and Frank Manning? (and others on here I have yet to meet!!)
Maureen
But it is true what everyone says. They edit the programme for entertainment, rather than facts, and choose the most bizarre people to make that happen.
It's just a shame that several of the things in the voiceover showed they actually know little about the subject. I know it's a bit nerdy but it went downhill for me when early on they said that 120,000 tons (or thereabouts) of steel had gone into building the ship. NO IT DIDN'T. I won't bother with the engineering dissertation on the various "weights" used in defining ships, suffice to say that if a ship the size of Royal Princess actually weighed 120,000 tons it would sink!
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I am glad to see you consider me "normalish" OBFoldbluefox wrote:Let's face it, if they portrayed cruising as it really is, would it make compulsive viewing? Programme makers nowadays always want to portray their subject as something wild and eccentric. I think we may be wrong in thinking the programme would be factual and would portray cruising as it really is.
Having watched the Fred Olsen series and now started on this one, if I didn't know better, it would scare me off cruising for ever. Who, in their right mind would want to spend their holidays cooped up in some sort of surreal asylum?
Why don't they show normal(ish) people like cornmillgirl, Carole, Michele and Frank Manning? (and others on here I have yet to meet!!)
Just watched this programme myself, if I had never cruised and saw this programme, cruising would not be an option.
The Mandy woman would do my head in, fancy having to sit with her at dinner. The ship itself looks a block of flats, not for me.
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I am just watching this programme. It's absolutely awful, completely naff. If I had never cruised, this would definitely be a turn off. It's just gross.
The Cruise Director has just said " This is the honeypot and I am the mother bee". I think I'm going to throw up.
The Cruise Director has just said " This is the honeypot and I am the mother bee". I think I'm going to throw up.
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I could not agree more Lioness, if I saw this before we cruised years ago, I would never have got Popeye the Sailorman (OH) onlioness wrote:I am just watching this programme. It's absolutely awful, completely naff. If I had never cruised, this would definitely be a turn off. It's just gross.
The Cruise Director has just said " This is the honeypot and I am the mother bee". I think I'm going to throw up.
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It shows cruising in the worst possible light bl**dy awful. I just hope P&O do not go down the Princess route!
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Just when you think it can't get any worse it does! Our last cruise with Princess 20 months ago was nothing like this and we are hoping our next one in September isn't like this programme is portraying. Princess are doing themselves no favours by taking part in this, we had an email this morning reminding us it was on tonight! Oh dear!!
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It's mind-blowingly crass and awful. We are watching them lift the Costa Concordia - at least that's real.
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We missed the programme tonight but after what you have all said I can't wait to catch up.
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Isn't that an insult to Butlins? I am surprised that Princess have allowed it to be aired, it shows their product in a very bad light.david63 wrote:Would Butlins at Sea be a good description?