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Argy bargy! New Great Canal Journeys presenters Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth may not be married like their predecessors Prunella Scales and Timothy West, but they certainly bicker like they are

• Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock host new series of Great Canal Journeys
• The show was previously hosted by Prunella Scales and husband Timothy West
•  The new hosts were encouraged to 'enjoy the countryside and the pubs'
• Tim will join Gyles and Sheila in the first episode to show them the ropes 

By Lisa Sewards For Weekend Magazine

Published: 17:31 EDT, 6 November 2020 | Updated: 17:31 EDT, 6 November 2020

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There was a deep sadness when Prunella Scales and Timothy West moored their narrowboat for the last time in their hugely popular television series Great Canal Journeys, which saw them navigating the canals, lakes and rivers of the world over ten series. 

Although Prunella, best remembered as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, first revealed she had Alzheimer’s in 2014 she continued filming the show with her husband until last year, when the advancing stages of the disease forced them, with great reluctance, to stop.

The couple’s hobby had provided them with endless delight since their children were small, when they spent their summers pootling around Britain’s glorious waterways, and their passion was such that producers felt it was almost impossible to hand the tiller over to anyone else. 

Until, that is, they came up with a replacement team in actor Sheila Hancock and author and presenter Gyles Brandreth , two firm friends who have received Pru and Tim’s full blessing with the instruction to ‘enjoy the countryside and the pubs’. 

Sheila Hancock (left) and Gyles Brandreth (right) are the new hosts of Great Canal Journeys

And the celebrity pair, whose spark and banter has lit up both Channel 4’s Celebrity Gogglebox and BBC Radio 4’s Just A Minute, have done just that in a new series of the show – albeit with a great deal more bossiness and bickering than the gentle conversations of their predecessors.

‘Channel 4 thought, “What are we going to do because we’ve lost the lovely Tim and Pru? The programme will have to be cancelled,”’ says Sheila, who was married to the late Inspector Morse actor John Thaw for 29 years. 

‘And then they suddenly had this idea that perhaps we could do the same programme, but differently. Pru and Tim were both genuinely pleased it was us because I’ve known them for years. 

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'Tim and I did a series years ago called Bedtime where we were in bed all the time. It was just after John had died and Tim was wonderfully supportive to me, so we’re very fond of one another.

‘I think also that because Tim and Pru had made it their own, he knew it wouldn’t be the same. It wasn’t another married couple trying to do the kind of lyrical thing they had done. 

'It had to be different with Gyles and I, so I needed to talk to Gyles and say, “Look mate, people love this programme, how can we do it in a way that would make it acceptable for somebody else to do it?”’

Tim joins Gyles and Sheila in the first episode to hand over the ropes and see them set sail along waterways including the Thames and the Lee Navigation Canal, which flows from Hertford to Bow in east London. On the way they meet all sorts, including an inventor building watercraft in his riverside workshop, paddleboarders recycling river rubbish into boards and some of Britain’s future Olympic female rowers. 

The pair solidified their friendship while appearing on Channel 4's Gogglebox

On the Thames at Windsor they hold an onboard concert of Handel’s Water Music, composed to be played on the river in 1717.

‘It was a great day with Tim, and although Pru couldn’t make it due to an ear test she phoned us to wish us the best,’ says Gyles, 72. ‘The reason people loved their series is because it was beautiful to see a wonderful marriage in front of your very eyes. They know each other so well that they don’t need to speak. 

'You watch them and you can see them hearing each other without speaking. They understand each other completely.

‘So we were very conscious we couldn’t try to be like them because we’re not like them. We’re friends, not a married couple, although if you could hear us bickering you’d think we were! I think Sheila and I are quite similar. 

'She denies it, but she’s an incredible control freak, like me. From the beginning she was the natural captain and I fell into the role of cabin boy, which I didn’t mind at all. But what made me laugh was that she kept telling me to talk less. 

'The only person in the world who talks more than me is Sheila Hancock.’

Sheila, a sprightly 87, is appalled at the allegation. ‘That’s absolute rubbish,’ she says. ‘I can’t get a word in edgeways with Gyles. He just goes on and on and on. We were actually told not to talk so much in the last two episodes.

Gyles and Sheila take over the show's reigns from Prunella Scales and Timothy West (pictured) who hosted the programme from 2014-2019

‘Gyles is hopeless. If there’s anything tricky I have to take over. It’s partly because he has to be talking all the time, and if somebody goes by on the riverbank he has to shout, “Ho, ship ahoy, hello, how are you?” And then we go bashing into the side. He’s admitted now that he can’t talk and sail the boat at the same time.

‘Curiously, we’re not buddy friends in real life. I’m always very pleased to see him but we always had rather barbed encounters on Just A Minute. I used to tell him to shut up and say, “You’re so boring.” So we built up a jokey relationship and I think, as a result, we did Celebrity Gogglebox.’

Gyles, who’s been a fan of Sheila’s since he was 11 years old and saw her perform at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, thinks Celebrity Gogglebox cemented their friendship. 

‘We got on famously. She was 86 then and I was 71, and there we were watching Naked Attraction. If you want to get to know somebody well, watch Naked Attraction with them,’ he laughs. ‘I was a very enthusiastic theatre-goer as a child and in 1959 I went to the Theatre Royal to see a show called Make Me An Offer and that’s when I first set eyes on Sheila. 

'So in episode two of the canal series I took her back to this theatre and we sat in the room where I first saw her 60 years ago.

‘We filmed the first two episodes early in the year, and then two after lockdown, although it was trickier because of social distancing. Sheila and I formed our own bubble, as it were. It’s like a fantasy come true – in a bubble with Sheila Hancock with the pair of us talking non-stop.’

With Gyles struggling to navigate bridges without bumping into the sides, Sheila assigned him to opening the locks and cooking. ‘I seem to be the one that ended up in the galley,’ he confirms. ‘Neither of us are cooks so she was very happy with that. And she accepted my signature dish – baked beans – which we lived off.

‘We played a few games of Scrabble and we learned some poems together. I think we relaxed. Occasionally – and she won’t have noticed this – she would forget and call me John. 

Timothy (right) will join Gyles and Sheila on the first episode of the new season to show them the ropes

'She’d say, “Oh, John, bring me a cup of tea.” I never mentioned it. In a way, being with her is like being with mother, sister, wife, girlfriend, performer – all rolled into one.

‘I’m a happily married man. Sheila knows my wife Michele and we’re all friends. Michele, who I met in 1968, is very grateful to Sheila for sharing the burden. Sheila’s immensely tolerant but I got on her nerves by being so jolly all the time. 

'She kept telling me off for waving at everyone, even though this is part of the courtesy of the canal. She kept saying, “The cameras aren’t running now. You don’t need to be larking about,” and I’d say, “But this is me!”’

Sheila says she found his unfailing optimism suspicious. ‘I did an impersonation of him, how he says, “Hey, hey, hello, how is everyone? Isn’t it wonderful?” Because whatever happens it’s wonderful for Gyles. I’m more pessimistic and dreary and he’s continuously upbeat,’ she says. ‘It’s partly that he feels he’s so blessed he hasn’t got the right to complain.’

Sheila, though, has had more than her fair share of anxiety. She was married to actor Alec Ross from 1954 until his death from oesophageal cancer in 1971, and to John from 1973 until his death – also from oesophageal cancer – in 2002. 

She has two daughters, Melanie from her first marriage and Joanna from her second, plus a stepdaughter, Abigail Thaw. 

‘Both my daughters have had cancer this year, so it’s all been a bit hairy. It’s been a tough old time, quite honestly, so this programme has been an absolute joy because I don’t have to learn lines. 

'People often say to me, “What’s your secret?” and I say, “I don’t have a secret, but if there is one thing that drives me it’s curiosity.” I am endlessly nosy, so it’s the perfect programme for me.’

Sheila suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, and we see her doing her daily exercises on the narrowboat, with Gyles joining in for moral support. ‘I’m on amazing drugs and I do a lot of exercise,’ she says. ‘I’m generally fine but I do have horrible days. I managed the canal series though, which many women of my age would find tricky. I had lots of passers-by saying, “If you can do it, so can I.”’

Sheila and Gyles are hoping they will be as well received as Pru and Tim. ‘We’re more barbed. They were so lovely with one another, and the weather was always good as well. It’s always pouring with rain with us,’ laughs Sheila. ‘Gyles is an endlessly fascinating man and I’m enjoying finding out about him. There’s nothing he doesn’t know, and nobody he doesn’t know either.’

Gyles agrees. ‘A year ago it would never have been on my list to go on a narrowboat but I surprised myself. I already knew how funny and lovely Sheila was, but she’s even funnier and lovelier than I thought. And she’s a bossy-boots who doesn’t realise it. And I probably am one too!

‘When I was a small boy I shared a bath with Julian Fellowes – his family lived in the flat upstairs from us in Kensington. So aged three I was sharing a bath with Julian Fellowes, and aged 72 I’m sharing a boat with Sheila Hancock. Who could ask for anything more?’

Great Canal Journeys returns tomorrow at 8pm on Channel 4.

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Do you dream of going on great canal journeys?

Are you stuck at home when you’d rather be boating?

Fancy living vicariously through the travels of others?

You may like to check out Channel 4’s new series of Great Canal Journeys.

After ten series of navigating the canals, lakes and river of the world, Prunella Scales and Timothy West’s televised canal journeys have sadly come to an end. Best known for playing Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, Pru’s struggle with Alzheimer’s became a poignant aspect of the programme, and has now forced the couple to stop filming. The beloved actors have a lifetime of canal boating experience behind them, and their passion for it made them the ideal presenters of this show.

However, Channel 4 has opted to continue the series with two new presenters, actor Sheila Hancock and author and presenter Gyles Brandreth. They’re not a couple, but they are friends who have previously appeared alongside each other on Celebrity Gogglebox. The charm of the original travel programme really lay in watching Tim and Pru’s wonderful marriage on screen, so I thought that changing the remit to two travelling friends might change the mood somewhat. To ease the transition Timothy West joined Gyles and Sheila in the first episode, which aired on 8 th November 2020.

“I don’t even know stern from aft!” says Gyles. The friends confess they know nothing about canal boating, but that Tim and Pru have told them anyone can do it. “We are throwing ourselves in at the deep end, and hoping we float!” says Gyles.

The episode begins with Tim welcoming them onto a day-boat at Broxbourne on the River Lee, for a bit of basic training in steering, operating a lock and mooring up. Then their first real journey beings at Pangbourne on the Thames, where they board a 70 foot wide beam. They investigate the bathroom and there is a comedy moment as Gyles accidentally pulls a handle off the toilet, showing viewers that anyone new to boating can make mistakes! During the episode they cruise towards London through Henley, Cliveden and Royal Windsor, and invite a historian on board to chat about the history of the Thames.

“The waterways teaches history that can’t be found in books. They show us how to go with the flow,” says Sheila. (If you like history you can visit Cambridge Universities, Ely Cathedral and Oliver Cromwell’s House on a Fox Boats holiday .)

Then Sheila, 87, joins a women’s rowing team, proving that it’s never too late to try something new. Gyles also is a likeable character. He jokes about doing a Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio impression, while standing on the bow as they enter London by boat.

I had my reservations about this show going forward without the loveable Tim and Pru, but actually it has the same life-affirming vibe, showing us that getting out on the water can make you feel alive! Although Tim and Pru had 40 years of boating experience to share with the viewers, these two are demonstrating that anyone can give boating a go, and learn new skills. Is it still heart-warming and funny? Absolutely. Are there stunning aerial views of waterways, and intriguing glimpses into life afloat? Of course.

If it’s some time since you’ve been boating, this new version of Great Canal Journeys will inspire you to get back out on the water. At Fox Narrowboats you can ease yourself in gently with day boat hire, or take a week’s long break on a comfortable holiday boat. We are now taking bookings for next year.

If you missed the first episode of Great Canal Journeys you can watch it on demand on All 4 , Channel 4’s streaming service. (To watch Channel 4 on demand you simply have to sign up with an email address and view on your TV, tablet or computer.)

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GYLES BRANDRETH HAD never been on a narrowboat before he set sail on one as the co-presenter of the new series of Great Canal Journeys. The writer and broadcaster and his Celebrity Gogglebox partner and friend of 40 years, actor Sheila Hancock, have taken over the tiller from Timothy West and Prunella Scales, who hung up their windlass last year. "I understood my place immediately," says Brandreth. "Sheila was captain; I was cabin boy, chief cook and bottle washer. She had my signa-ture dish many times - baked beans on toast." Brandreth admits that he had reservations about replacing West and Scales, who are life-long canal enthusiasts and captured viewers' hearts, partly thanks to their candour about Pru's dementia. "Sheila and I don't know anything about canals and Tim and Pm were old hands. Initially I thought we shouldn't do it, because we're not them and everyone loves them. But I wrote a book a few years ago about the secrets of being happy and one of them was to embrace change, do different things, challenge yourself - I decided this certainly would be challenging, as I don't know one end of a narrowboat from another." He soon discovered that pootling down water-ways at 4mph isn't as relaxing as Tim and Pru made it look. At first it was a little bit frighten-ing, to be honest. Although you're not going very fast, it seems fast. 

"I found the steering very difficult because I don't stop talking and I can't do two things at once. When I'm in the car, I have to turn down the sound on the radio if I want to turn left or right. And also because you push the steering wheel to the right if you want to go to the left, which Sheila found terribly easy. "When they edited the first episode, they cut out me crashing because it happened so often. So it was quite traumatic and Sheila did most of the steering. I did the locks, which is heavy work, and we managed the tying up and the mooring between us. There was a lot of shaking of heads from the lock-keepers when I turned up and tried to moon" Nevertheless, by the time they embarked on their final trip, along the picturesque Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, Brandreth had mastered the tiller and could enjoy the scenery. "We really did learn and that's one of the reasons for doing it: I'm in my 70s, Sheila's in her 80s, and we both learned a great deal about canals, boating, the British Isles and each other. It was truly a journey of discovery, more than I ever anticipated. You saw a side of England that you wouldn't otherwise see. Canals were the roads of our country during the Industrial Revolution. We learnt how hard life was for people on the canals, and how tough they were:' 

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New series tonight at 8pm on channel 4, with new presenters, starting on the river Thames.  

Wont be the same without Presila  

Not certain the replacement crew are of the same calliber as those who sadly have had to retire and might be slightly irritating for a whole series.  

ashtead said: Not certain the replacement crew are of the same calliber as those who sadly have had to retire and might be slightly irritating for a whole series. Click to expand...

Lady Sm has the rubbish on now, typical BBC "Jobs 4 the Boyz" rehash  

You could always watch it at a later date on All 4 on demand. I’m not expecting much, but at least it’s hopefully going to be nice to see our summer weekend back garden on the tv. Roll on 2021 boating  

I'm enjoying it  

thamesS23 said: You could always watch it at a later date on All 4 on demand. I’m not expecting much, but at least it’s hopefully going to be nice to see our summer weekend back garden on the tv. Roll on 2021 boating Click to expand...

sailorman said: Lady Sm has the rubbish on now, typical BBC "Jobs 4 the Boyz" rehash Click to expand...

Chris_d said: It More 4 not BBC Click to expand...

Terrible continuity, as they leave Shiplake with aerial shot of Hambledon.  

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Chris_d said: I'm enjoying it Click to expand...

Shite show  

Parabordi said: Saw your boat on it, apparently its between sonning and shiplake, but every fill in piece was medmenham then back to mapledurham again and their first lock was shiplake with bazzer. Dunno where they moored 2nd night apparently henley , didnt recognise it. Click to expand...

Chris_d said: French Horn then George and Dragon at Wargrave. Click to expand...

Not often I use such words but "what a lot of crap" Continuity was the worst I have seen. No Volunteers or Lock and weir keepers shown and I could not beleive that they had Tim giving training. Not sure what the aim of the program was for or who it was aimed at.  

Big John said: Not often I use such words but "what a lot of crap" Continuity was the worst I have seen. No Volunteers or Lock and weir keepers shown and I could not beleive that they had Tim giving training. Not sure what the aim of the program was for or who it was aimed at. Click to expand...

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To celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales embark on four spectacular canal journeys, sharing a passion that they've enjoyed for decades. To start the series, Tim and Pru revisit the Kennet and Avon Canal in the West Country. Back in 1990, to promote the fully restored canal, Tim and Pru were invited to be the first boat in 42 years to travel the full length of the K&A.

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