We'll have a short film on each, and then in the studio we'll have people championing their favourites. So we'll have people like Naomi Cleaver, George Clarke and Janet Street-Porter trying to flog the idea that viewers should vote for that particular house - and I'll be asking them why. That's my job - to be a roving nuisance.
I suppose it is. But I didn't want it to be just that, hence Janet, who brings a bit more roughage, and Jason, who is so good, and so funny. He used to be a stand-up comedian. Speaking of which, we've also got Dave Gorman involved. We sent him packing, to go off and make some films about American houses. Insane American houses. Not just big, bad taste mansions, but really unusual, quirky, oddball stuff. He's made these very funny films, so I'm really looking forward to having him involved. And Bill Bailey is probably going to pop in as well. I'm quite keen that we don't take ourselves too seriously.
Well, it's more like destructive product testing, where you take something like a big piece of glass and drive a digger over it to see how strong it is.
Er... Yes. Do you know, the funny thing is, I was on a big commercial building site recently, and we had the biggest crane in the country there. They had to strengthen the road to bring it in, and they had to use another crane to put this enormous crane together. It's a crane which is so expensive and so computerised that if the driver overstrains it, or leans too far, not only does it flash lights and warns you with alarms going off, it sends an email to the manufacturers. Anyway, the funny thing is, 200 men from big construction and engineering firms were all hanging around in hard hats and site boots, every one of them getting excited about the size of the crane - like five-year-old boys.
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