[Cyclist]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Graham Brady- proper heavyweight guests.

Actually, I forgot briefly he was genuinely important in the Tories. Eek,

[Andy McDandy]

Shades of Donny Tourette on Buzzcocks.

"He's smoking a cigarette, which is legally available in shops!"

[satnav]

A number of people have pointed out that whilst Farage might pull in a few extra viewers in the short-term he is not likely to prove too popular with the advertisers that GBNews need to attract if the channel is to stay in business.

[Andy McDandy]

Yup, see comments on Katie Hopkins.

[Youngian]

Shades of Donny Tourette on Buzzcocks.

"He's smoking a cigarette, which is legally available in shops!"

Farage is no Noel Edmonds when it comes to format innovation. Fred Dinnage was probably doing chat over a pint in a regional ITV spot 50 years ago. Even Steve Coogan hasn’t bothered spoofing it.

[Andy McDandy]

"Meet me in my virtual pub" has strong shades of Down the Line/Bellamy's People too. Chatting about racism over a pint of foaming nut brown ale.

[davidjay]

I would suspect the politics aren't too dissimilar.

[MisterMuncher]

Farage always looks so natural with a pint, doesn't he?

Cosplaying cunt.

[Youngian]

Andrew Neil was very dismissive of ‘the wokes’ predicting GBNews will be Farage yelling at refugees off Hastings.

[davidjay]

They seem to be going for the TalkSport Sun-reading white van man demographic, not seeming to notice that you can't watch TV while you're driving a van or on your dinner hour.

[Watchman]

Andrew Neil was very dismissive of ‘the wokes’ predicting GBNews will be Farage yelling at refugees off Hastings.

What's that Nige, the news no ones talking about....Nigel its your only fucking trick, and everyone is aware of what's happening. So fuck off with your shit stirring, and when you've fucked off, fuck off some more

[Youngian]

Its not all racist fear mongering down at GBN. At least Esther Rantzen and her gang created their own talking dog stories

Its all getting a bit Pythonesque now.

[Bones McCoy]

Farage's Channel Watch missed one brillo-haired gammon-faced loudmouth travelling in the opposite direction.

[soulboy]

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".

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The Oval Invincibles v the Manchester Originals?

What the actual fucking fuck?

[Youngian]

Its all getting a bit Pythonesque now.

Sent the Tweet for expert opinion on that

[Bones McCoy]

The Oval Invincibles v the Manchester Originals?

What the actual fucking fuck?

This is the "superleague" bullshit that the supposedly less sophisticated football fans rejected.

Let's ponder for a moment how we arrived at the Hundred.
* 2005: England (is that Freddie Flintoff's England) win a narrow ashes series, and England goes Cricket mental.
* IN the same year the governing body signs a contract to stick the game behind Uncle Rupert's paywall for something like 6000 years.
(We all know how paywalling impacts the popularity of a sport).

16 years on, Uncle Rupe's troops own global rights to the 20 over format, so TCCB needs something similar, but shorter.

So far it's all comprehensible, but chuck in some marketing wankers for the total fucking abortion we're about to witness.

Yes, it's lovely that the ladies get to play on a tiny pitch.
Yes it's great that the kiddiewinks are getting free tickets for the first few games.
But why are the TV graphics done on a BBC Micro computer?
Why has the smart and lovely Isa Guha agreed to anchor the format.

[Andy McDandy]

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.”

Reminds me of the coverage of the Live 8 concert, when some producer decided that rather than watch the bands, audiences at home would rather watch Jonathon Ross and Ricky Gervais swapping bantz. To be fair, both of them realised the idiocy of the situation and read out several messages from viewers along the lines of "Stop showing these two and cut back to Metallica".

[Nigredo]

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.