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  • Old Grumpy
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    • Jan 2011
    • 3620
    #106
    Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
    They are all over the place with their snooker coverage, literally and figuratively. I was watching the conclusion of Ding v King (has a nice ring) on BBC2 when they broke off at 6pm because it overran, ie got exciting.
    Perhaps the next programme was more interesting!

    At least the snooker game was still in progress. It really annoys me when I am waiting for a scheduled programme, the football (or whatever) match is already over, but they insist on carrying on with all the post-match claptrap, despite overrunning.


    OG

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    • LHC
      Full Member
      • Jan 2011
      • 1559
      #107
      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      Perhaps the next programme was more interesting!

      At least the snooker game was still in progress. It really annoys me when I am waiting for a scheduled programme, the football (or whatever) match is already over, but they insist on carrying on with all the post-match claptrap, despite overrunning.u


      OG
      That always irritates me as well. The match finished 30 minutes ago, but they still can't finish on time, and even though the chat has run over, they still have to show the highlights of the match again set to music, and then their end credits, and then adverts for future programmes, so a five minute overrun, turns into ten or more minutes before the next programme can start. I suppose Lineker et al are all paid too much to take heed of a lowly producer telling them they have 10 seconds to finish.
      "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
      Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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      • Old Grumpy
        Full Member
        • Jan 2011
        • 3620
        #108
        And why is Lineker sporting a moustache that wouldn't have been out of place in 1930s Germany?

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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25210
          #109
          Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
          And why is Lineker sporting a moustache that wouldn't have been out of place in 1930s Germany?
          As regards that particular country, and as Lineker will understand, maybe it is a case of " If you can't beat them......"
          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37707
            #110
            Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
            Perhaps the next programme was more interesting!

            At least the snooker game was still in progress. It really annoys me when I am waiting for a scheduled programme, the football (or whatever) match is already over, but they insist on carrying on with all the post-match claptrap, despite overrunning.


            OG
            It's probably written into their commentatorly contracts that they have to do post mortems.

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            • Old Grumpy
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 3620
              #111
              Well they could do the post mortem, but just not broadcast it!

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