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Five's new garden show ticks all the boxes of a typical makeover show with all the right cliches - it's got good looking presenters, hideously messy gardens, owners without an ounce of gardening knowledge and beautiful designs and plants.
But its also got a few things you wouldn't see on other garden makeover shows - builders working against the clock with raging hangovers, a glamorous blonde trainee who insists on gardening in her bikini and such appallingly bad weather its touch and go whether the team will actually meet the magical TV deadline.
Presented by dishy garden designer and plant expert, Robbie Honey, and hard working, hard playing landscaper, Gavin Ellison, the series tackles the most revolting dumping grounds in the country and transforms them into stunning gardens.
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The pair are helped in their challenge by Gav's right hand man and drinking buddy, Mick as well as his suspiciously beautiful, handy trainee, Aussie Emma.
The team work their magic on a city backyard, ankle deep in sewage, in Clapham, South London, a garden thats been used as a builders tip in Ashford, Middlesex and an area behind a Chingford house that looks like a piece of rainforest and conceals a rusting home gym.
While in Hackney in East London they save a courtyard garden from the fallout of a one man DIY machine, before a car graveyard and bramble heaven in Hillingdon near Uxbridge is given short shrift - and a new sun feature, herbaceous beds and lawn.
Finally, the team faces a concrete hell in Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, and against the odds of bad weather, cracked sewage pipes and a poorly landscaper, transform it into a formal Italianate garden.
Nice House Shame about the Garden has everything today's demanding TV audience expects of a garden makeover show - designer/builder clashes, speeded up sequences, a sexy trainee and jokey banter - oh and there are some plants as well.
Broadcaster: five
Format: 8 x 30"