John sergeant

[luggsy]

must be making a new series on barging around , just passed me on the Rochdale at Todmorden

[MHS]

Based on the quality of the editing in the first series, he should be cruising through Stoke Bruerne by tomorrow morning.

[Ray T]

Based on the quality of the editing in the first series, he should be cruising through Stoke Bruerne by tomorrow morning.

 

Be fun if he met the West's.

[rgreg]

Apparently he was supposed to be doing an episode on the Lancaster canal but it's been postponed/ cancelled.

[Shropie Lad]

must be making a new series on barging around , just passed me on the Rochdale at Todmorden

And yes I bet they will edit it out after he passes Littlebough ! The tour from tod to there IS Stunning !

[Martin Megson]

I'm currently reading his book accompanying the first series. I'm finding it very interesting and well written.

[tagulablue]

For what it is worth I couldn't watch the 1st episode in full but I found, that the more it went on in to other episodes the more it seemed as if he suddenly "got" what we all love about the canals.

[NickF]

He came onto my boat (hired Shire cruiser) on Sunday and they filmed him down Gauxholme Locks into Tod. He is a really nice friendly guy with a good team working with him. The camera man just loved the locks and the railway bridge there and spent lots of time filming the bridge the boat and the Pennine scenery. John Seargent steered the boat himself and did quite a good job of if. I know continuity isn't their strong point but as he said they are aiming at a broader audience not just canal buffs like us!

 

We did encounter him a few days earlier on the Peak Forest so he is obviously doing a program about that too.

[Bright Angel]

It's a shame they cancelled the bit on the Lancaster as we watched him do a piece in Lancaster Basin. He spotted our dog in it's box on the rear hatch and he asked his crew to reverse the boat and shoot it again including Oliver in the footage. He called over and told us it would be broadcast this year.

[Peter X]

Isn't the producer going to have continuity problems in the real world from Todmorden? Although it sounds as if CRT plus volunteers are doing their best, there were several major problems arising from the Boxing Day flood on the Rochdale (both sides of Todmorden) and the Calder & Hebble which as far as I can tell from the forum haven't yet been cleared? Has anyone yet got a boat past the point just above lock 12 where Foxy and I ran aground? Then there's that landslip further up, the bridge at Elland, and some major damage on the Lancashire side too?

[nbfiresprite]

must be making a new series on barging around , just passed me on the Rochdale at Todmorden

Was he in his normal boating outfit?

[NickF]

Was he in his normal boating outfit?

 

Waiting to start filming at Gauxholme July 2015

 

After filming at Tod

Edited March 17, 2016 by NickF