Neither ITV's Britain's Got Talent, which drew 12.7 million viewers in May, nor BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, with 11.7 million viewers, came close to drawing the viewing figures amassed by a homely show featuring people making cakes in a marquee.
Refugees in Zaatari have used their creative skills to make homely and welcoming features in their caravans, such as making their own furniture.
Franklin's most homely and heartfelt feature (he is best known for thrillers and sweaty dramas such as Roadgames, Patrick and Brilliant Lies) is a fine definition of a filmed play, faithful to its origins but contentious as a work of cinema.
But he is best known for Nordlands trompet (written 1678 1700; published 1739; The Trumpet of Nordland), a rhyming description of Nordland that depicts, with loving accuracy and homely humour, its natural features, people, and occupations.
Aside from any other matter, has no one else noticed how toadily homely the man's features have become since he piled on the muscle for Gangs of New York a few years back?
Similarly, I had a great number of wonderful cooking experiences whilst growing up; opportunities to watch, learn and have a go at making homely dishes, that still feature as wholesome comfort foods for me today.
While the décor won't win any design awards, it's warm and homely, and all rooms have features such as minibars, kettles, tea and coffee.
His recordings, including covers of "If I Were a Carpenter" and "Both Sides of Now" featuring the actor's homely baritone, have improved with age, purveying as they do in a now-beloved brand late 1960s Hollywood gloss-pop, or perhaps with distance; they are, at any rate, better than Shatner's "The Transformed Man".
For example, "More of a homely feel, close to home, less people around.
Now judge, my friend, of my mortification, whilst I am sitting comfortably at breakfast with my family, enjoying the purity of the summer air, in moment my dwelling, once consecrated to peace and retirement, is filled with dense smoke of foetid gas; my homely, though cleanly, table covered with dirt; and the features of my wife and family almost obscured by a polluted atmosphere.
