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Oblomov wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:51 am

soulboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:41 pm They are in danger of losing the remaining car crash TV market.

I'm currently watching The Hundred cricket and it is painful. Where to start?

Rather than ball by ball commentary you miss wickets as a YouTuber is being interviewed in the stands. Shades of "Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent’s Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste... and England are one down.”

The graphics when somebody hits a six look like they were written in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum.

The commentators are clearing getting in ear instructions to explain the game to that elusive audience who have been attracted to cricket by a half time performance from a popular beat combo between innings. "Opened up his body to hit through the offside" is followed up with "takes a step back and hits it to the left... if you are looking from the bowler's end".

And incredibly, this convoluted nonsense was designed to be gateway for the "mums and kids" onto the real stuff.

There have always been mums and kids, and in front of those mums and kids was a cricket mad dad.

Judging by yesterday's crowd interviews that hasn't changed at all.
The mass distribution of free tickets has simply got the cricket mad dads all bringing their families on the same day.

The proof of the format, like GBeebies, (cunning link back to original thread) will be several weeks on when it's an all-paying audience.


Cricket does a lot better when it accepts that it is a secondary sport compared to football.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:40 am

Oblomov wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:51 am

soulboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:41 pm They are in danger of losing the remaining car crash TV market.

I'm currently watching The Hundred cricket and it is painful. Where to start?

Rather than ball by ball commentary you miss wickets as a YouTuber is being interviewed in the stands. Shades of "Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent’s Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste... and England are one down.”

The graphics when somebody hits a six look like they were written in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum.

The commentators are clearing getting in ear instructions to explain the game to that elusive audience who have been attracted to cricket by a half time performance from a popular beat combo between innings. "Opened up his body to hit through the offside" is followed up with "takes a step back and hits it to the left... if you are looking from the bowler's end".

And incredibly, this convoluted nonsense was designed to be gateway for the "mums and kids" onto the real stuff.

There have always been mums and kids, and in front of those mums and kids was a cricket mad dad.

Judging by yesterday's crowd interviews that hasn't changed at all.
The mass distribution of free tickets has simply got the cricket mad dads all bringing their families on the same day.

The proof of the format, like GBeebies, (cunning link back to original thread) will be several weeks on when it's an all-paying audience.


Cricket does a lot better when it accepts that it is a secondary sport compared to football.

The main takeaway I've had from The Hundred is that women's sport can generate a similar buzz to the men when they receive a similar marketing push.

Aside from that I've found it patronizing and amateurish bollocks, dreamed up by a focus group of Oxbridge toffs in red trousers that are unfamiliar with anything modern, let alone modern marketing strategies.

Kirsty Gallacher is fed up with getting up early for the breakfast show. Taking a break, after a month.

I'd not last a week getting up at 3am, but this doesn't sound normal. Wouldn't you work out a rota beforehand that your main breakfast presenter could sustain? Who takes over? Timmy Mallet?

On one hand, to be fair, when he chucked the Radio 2 gig in, one Terence Wogan did say that he was exhausted from doing it.

On the other hand though, by that point he was 71, and had been doing it this time round for 16 years. Which is why he used to take a week off every tenth week or so.

It is possible to arrange things appropriately.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:09 pm Kirsty Gallacher is fed up with getting up early for the breakfast show. Taking a break, after a month.

I'd not last a week getting up at 3am, but this doesn't sound normal. Wouldn't you work out a rota beforehand that your main breakfast presenter could sustain? Who takes over? Timmy Mallet?

Julie Hartley-Brewer has a morning vibe about her. If you were so tanked up in the pub the night before, she became an option.

Whilst many presenters would get up at 3am to broadcast to an audience of 3 million people I'm not sure you would want to get up at 3 in the morning to broadcast to around 30,000 people. You may as well get a job on your local radio station.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 2:13 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:09 pm Kirsty Gallacher is fed up with getting up early for the breakfast show. Taking a break, after a month.

I'd not last a week getting up at 3am, but this doesn't sound normal. Wouldn't you work out a rota beforehand that your main breakfast presenter could sustain? Who takes over? Timmy Mallet?

Julie Hartley-Brewer has a morning vibe about her. If you were so tanked up in the pub the night before, she became an option.

Unlike Joan Bakewell's "Thinking man's crumpet"
JHB has cornered the market for "Angry wanking loser's's crumpet".


I shall now return to the 21st century

satnav wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:20 pm Whilst many presenters would get up at 3am to broadcast to an audience of 3 million people I'm not sure you would want to get up at 3 in the morning to broadcast to around 30,000 people. You may as well get a job on your local radio station.

That's a good point. It's not exactly a loss leader that'll get you columnist and guest appearance gigs, or even opening supermarkets.

I suppose you might not bother too much about viewers if you felt that you were "in the shop window" for the big boys, but Kirsty Gallacher is 20 years past that in her career.

Another superstar signing...Arlene Foster



She wants to "to bring Northern Ireland very much into the mainstream of UK politics" but I don't think anybody's told her GBeebies viewing figures yet.

If the media is as controlled by the left-wing liberal elite as they claim, then surely anyone working for this lot is committing career suicide?

It is quite interesting that when faced with falling viewing figures GB News respond by giving more airtime to Nigel Farage and employing radio shock jock and third rate comedian Mark Dolan and Arlene Philips. None of these three have any journalistic qualification so they are just be employed because they are very opinionated and controversial.

They've also signed up Jonny Gould to do a sports slot. That's the TalkSport presenter Jonny Gould who is friendly with Farage and Brendan O'Neill and gives Tommy Robinson a sympathetic hearing then claims to be a regular victim of anti-semetism.

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:11 pm If the media is as controlled by the left-wing liberal elite as they claim, then surely anyone working for this lot is committing career suicide?

Its not but they still are

Then there's this chap, who I honestly thought was Chris Morris doing Austin Tassletine again at first.



Translated, "Oh fuck, I've made a dreadful mistake, hope UTV take me back. *

They've got Right Said Fred on as well, apparently.

Be Lee Hurst and that lunatic woman in Trafalgar Square yesterday next week at this rate.

Dalem Lake wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:11 pm Another superstar signing...Arlene Foster

She wants to "to bring Northern Ireland very much into the mainstream of UK politics" but I don't think anybody's told her GBeebies viewing figures yet.

She'll be their "token Paddy" at the station, ready to wheel out when it fits the GB "News" agenda. Like the DUP in Westminster, Foster will be tossed to the curb when her value as a useful idiot is done.

There’s a healthy flow of swivel eyed rentagobs from the Emerald Isle. That Laura Perrins idiot (runs Conservative Home?) and even loonier Ann Marie something leading some UKIP off-shoot obsessed with Muslims. West BritKIP doffer Ray Basset could pop up to provide GBN with ‘balance’ on EU opinion in Ireland. What’s veteran Mail loon Mary Kenny up to these days? Slightly to the right of General Franco IIRC

Ruth Dudley Evans would probably jump at it.

Arlene's former pals may be on to something, as evidenced by

Gay Briton wins olympic gold https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57966599

London consumed by massive floods https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57965298