TV Review: House Rescue

Gissing Hall can be lost and a bit scary, but these show host is really grotesque

When William and Ann Brennan, a for-sale ad looked in their Sunday newspaper for a 44-room villa in Norfolk, they did the sensible thing – they bought it. Well, they have a look at it first of course. "We came on, and it was an extraordinary sight," said Ann, romantically. "This big lump, lumps of red brick, in the middle of an icy field."

I think winter is the time for Gissing Hall. And Norfolk in the right place. Not posh Norfolk, on the north coast, Islington-on-Sea. But nowhere left Norfolk, foggy and flat, and a bit scary. It is a beautiful Georgian house with a beautiful clock tower and gables, the going up and down in steps rather than straight lines. But it is also a lugubriousness about Gissing Hall. And I think, like Brennan's. William is frustratingly reticent, Ann, an artist who is quiet and thoughtful.

So it all worked then – the perfect family, in the perfect house in the perfect spot. Except that it costs a lot to keep going a 44-room house, money that the Brennans had not. So she opened it as a hotel. But restrained, quiet and artistic are not necessarily the qualities that you need to run a successful hotel. No one came, she borrowed more money. The Brennans bumbled, Gissing Hall is crumbling. Finally they called in Ruth Watson and Country House Rescue (Channel 4).

So no-nonsense rock Ruth in her blue coat and big vulgar Audi. She does not seem to be any sweetness in Gissing Hall, just a lot of things that they do not like to see – the goalposts, the carpets, the rooms, pretty much everything. "This looks very sad," she says, leaving the Audi. The Brennans' decor is dark, she says. You do not get how to do bedroom, the curtains in the ballroom – are outrageous – daughter of William and Harriet Ann chosen.

She's right, of course. But it is outrageous to even passed. She sits in the Brennan to talk for a little patronizing. "I think you were incredibly honest and very intelligent to know that you do not know what you're doing," she told them. "This is the sign for me, the intelligence to ask for help." You can see that Ann is cooking behind her pensive silence.

Thus, Ruth decided she smart enough, but they are for the job? "Given a structure, you think you're really disciplined enough to keep this?" Hold, are not liable. Ruth loves a formal word – stop, randomly, metropolitan area. If you are going to judge other people's intelligence you've got your own show.

She has a little stroll on your own and meets a couple who think their wedding on Gissing. What they have to think of the curtains in the ballroom, she wants to know. They did not like them. "OK, thanks," Ruth said with a smug little laugh. Ha ha ha, see, I was right.

God, I'm really starting to dislike this woman. But it gets even worse because it takes a right old mess in another room. "When people live in the mess so it is also indicative of a state of mind," she says, unfortunately, tapping his head. Oh, I see, they could certainly intelligent, but they are a bit weird in the head. And Ruth is not just a hotel, and a judge of intelligence, she is a psychologist at. Is there no limit to her talents?

Of course it is very good stuff in the hotel. Well, actually it says to the Brennans on exit from the hotel, and focus on weddings. And it calls into designers and experts, and "a very important wedding consultant" named Peregrine Armstrong Jones, the marriage ceremonies Liz Hurley and the Beckhams (I doubt that much of Brennan's Liz Hurley or impressed the Beckhams) are arranged. She gets them to hire a manager because they are obviously incompetent, the administration itself. Harriet and curtains are pulled down. It all makes sense, I fear.

The Brennan agree. I urge, in the hope they will anger the audience to spit on the terrible woman who came into her life in her Swanning big Audi. But they are far too nice and say their advice was very useful. William is to admit that they saw the young manager taking over are no longer with them. Ann is on the line. I tell her I thought she was angry with Ruth. No, she says she was not cooking, that's just the way it looks. I tell her what she says about the chaos and the state of her mind. "It's all right," says Ann. Damn.

Well, I am not so beautiful; Ruth Watson is terrible.

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