#12 Ground Force - The BBC's Home Gardening Reality Show.

The new generation of DIY home improvement programming delivers entertainment by way of fantasy fulfillment and shabby-to-chic household makeovers. Trading Spaces and its vastly better UK original Changing Rooms merge the educational aspect of the light construction process with the guilty appeal of voyeurism. Ground Force, in which a team of gardeners sneaks onto a viewers’s property and builds them a garden over the course of a weekend, is my hands-down favorite. The crew is cool and down-to-earth, they do tasteful work and always work up a sweat. When the squad was given the opportunity to build a dream garden for a person they admire, they picked Nelson Mandela. How cool is that?