On paper, you wouldn’t necessarily call Nick Knowles a national treasure. But only because he’s never really called attention to himself. Dig into his work over the years, and that entirely earnest humanity he radiates – even when it makes him look a bit cringe in the process – and it might be worth finally giving him the respect he deserves.
I wonder if it might happen imminently. This weekend the BBC quietly announced that Knowles’s long-running home renovation show DIY SOS – which has, shockingly, been on the air since 1999 – will be “rested” as part of cost-cutting measures at the corporation. Replacing it will be a glorified clip show, a bit like Grand Designs Revisited, only without any new footage.
