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Who the hell made those odds up?
They should be quoted “with a run” as I wouldn’t take the odds of one or two of them being around in a years time.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
ITV will also be sharing coverage of the Rugby Union 6 Nations with BBC. Racing on any Saturday clashing with this will almost certainly get booted out to ITV 4.
The personnel involved seems a tough call. I doubt if any RUK types would be selected as most would frighten off the casual viewer. Some involvement for John Inverdale would not surprise me.
I`ve an awkward feeling that we may get a Loose Women seguet launch of the Cheltenham festival with a handover from Janet Street Porter being deemed equine enough for most viewers
Odds
Matt Chapman Eve
Jeremy Kyle 5-2
Oli Bell 5-25/1 John Inverdale
5/1 Mark Pougatch
5/1 John Francome
6/1 Derek Thompson
6/1 Alastair Down
6/1 Mike Cattermole
8/1 Ed Chamberlain
8/1 John Hunt
8/1 Sean Boyce
10/1 Tom Stanley
10/1 Tom Segal
10/1 Dave Nevison
14/1 Lydia Hislop
16/1 Kevin Blake
16/1 John McCririck
20/1 James Willoughby
20/1 Steve Mellish
20/1 Francesca Cumani
25/1 Ant and Dec
25/1 Michael Atherton
25/1 Hayley Turner
50/1Where are these odds taken from? Are they to be lead presenter?
I think a few noughts are missing off one or two. Unless they are actually after a ventriloquist/mad professor then you wouldn’t want a free bet on Willoughby at 2,000,000/1.
And the difference between Bell and Stanley? Bell has an irritating, snivelling voice that would befit a 14 year-old boarding schoolboy who had just masterminded the ‘best’ prank ever. Add in his ridiculous dress sense and mainstream television should really be a million miles away.
Down and Cattermole? Down is a wordsmith, best used in (very) small doses who makes Worzel Gummidge look like a fashion icon. Cattermole is the absolute King Of Bland, one of the best fence sitters in the history of racing.
Odds
Matt Chapman Eve
Jeremy Kyle 5-2
Oli Bell 5-25/1 John Inverdale
5/1 Mark Pougatch
5/1 John Francome
6/1 Derek Thompson
6/1 Alastair Down
6/1 Mike Cattermole
8/1 Ed Chamberlain
8/1 John Hunt
8/1 Sean Boyce
10/1 Tom Stanley
10/1 Tom Segal
10/1 Dave Nevison
14/1 Lydia Hislop
16/1 Kevin Blake
16/1 John McCririck
20/1 James Willoughby
20/1 Steve Mellish
20/1 Francesca Cumani
25/1 Ant and Dec
25/1 Michael Atherton
25/1 Hayley Turner
50/1Where are these odds taken from? Are they to be lead presenter?
I think a few noughts are missing off one or two. Unless they are actually after a ventriloquist/mad professor then you wouldn’t want a free bet on Willoughby at 2,000,000/1.
And the difference between Bell and Stanley? Bell has an irritating, snivelling voice that would befit a 14 year-old boarding schoolboy who had just masterminded the ‘best’ prank ever. Add in his ridiculous dress sense and mainstream television should really be a million miles away.
Down and Cattermole? Down is a wordsmith, best used in (very) small doses who makes Worzel Gummidge look like a fashion icon. Cattermole is the absolute King Of Bland, one of the best fence sitters in the history of racing.
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Thanks, as I read it you win if your selection appears as a presenter or pundit on the first ITV show. So you would expect more than one winner.
I am surprised Tony Ennis isn’t on the list, I can only really think of Rishi Persad and Tony Ennis as ethnic racing presenters so I think if you can get some good odds on Tony Ennis might be worth a punt.
Odds
Matt Chapman Eve
Jeremy Kyle 5-2
Oli Bell 5-25/1 John Inverdale
5/1 Mark Pougatch
5/1 John Francome
6/1 Derek Thompson
6/1 Alastair Down
6/1 Mike Cattermole
8/1 Ed Chamberlain
8/1 John Hunt
8/1 Sean Boyce
10/1 Tom Stanley
10/1 Tom Segal
10/1 Dave Nevison
14/1 Lydia Hislop
16/1 Kevin Blake
16/1 John McCririck
20/1 James Willoughby
20/1 Steve Mellish
20/1 Francesca Cumani
25/1 Ant and Dec
25/1 Michael Atherton
25/1 Hayley Turner
50/1And the difference between Bell and Stanley? Bell has an irritating, snivelling voice that would befit a 14 year-old boarding schoolboy who had just masterminded the ‘best’ prank ever. Add in his ridiculous dress sense and mainstream television should really be a million miles away.
An accurate assessment of Bell, unfortunately this seems to appeal to broadcasters these days. Why else would he have such prominence on RUK? I also find him particularly irritating with his in depth interviews of connections at the track at expense of seeing the horses.
I see Lydia Hislop was at this yesterday with Henderson & Mullins. Surely viewers want to concentrate on what is happening at the time and see the horses for the veterans chase rather than see a tedious interview with Willie Mullins about his Cheltenham horses, something that has been done a million times before, and at the expense of seeing and discussing the horses for the big race.
Can’t see Tom Stanley getting a look in, no one knows him and he lacks experience. As for Nevison, surely there’s got to be several noughts missing off that price.
Due to the lack of ethnic and female presenters around as itv will want some form of equality I will say
Oli Bell & Zoey Bird maybe Alex Hammond if they can persuade her to leave Sky – presenter
Tony Ennis or Sean Boyce – stats if they can be persuaded to leave ATR
Gareth Topham and David Fitzgerald as commentators.
Jeremy Kyle? WTF. This isn’t a serious possibility surely? The man is a joke, his programmes are a joke, is this seriously what we want for racing?
If Jeremy Kyle were to present I’d much prefer just listening to the Timeform radio commentary.
Does the team think that ITV will produce the programme themselves or contract it out to an independent company such as IMG/Highflyer/Sunset & Vine?
I realise that ITV will have a big say in the personnel and style of the broadcast if one of the previous C4 companies were used then we should have a good idea of the presenting team?I was kidding when I suggested Jeremy Kyle, Keith Lemon and Holly Willoughby as the presenting team but with ITV it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
I think it’s odds on that we have at least one “non racing” presenter and with ITV’s obsession with Celebs and reality TV I have genuine concerns about next year’s coverage.
As for an earlier post from Stilvi I am not looking for a return to the 1970s. I just want the focus of any new coverage to be the action on the course. We need presenters who will reflect the passion, drama and excitement of this wonderful sport and we need to make sure that viewers form bonds with the equine and human competitors that will make them want to tune in to see their favourites perform. I just don’t see this as ITV’s priority,
Tony Ennis ? You can’t be serious! Utterly bland and totally without a sense of humour just like the other ATR course reporter Simon Mapletoft who is so determinedly straight laced and never ever says anything even remotely amusing.
Am I the only one who smells a very dodgy rat on this forum when people post patronisingly about ‘ethnic’ presenters as if they are talking about some kinf of special needs group or sub class …..annoying and very offensive .
Tony Ennis ? You can’t be serious! Utterly bland and totally without a sense of humour just like the other ATR course reporter Simon Mapletoft who is so determinedly straight laced and never ever says anything even remotely amusing.
Am I the only one who smells a very dodgy rat on this forum when people post patronisingly about ‘ethnic’ presenters as if they are talking about some kinf of special needs group or sub class …..annoying and very offensive .
He maybe bland and boring and we know from his appearance on Get In he has no sense of humour but he is an ethnic minority and that gives him an extra chance of being picked as being part of the programme.
Why is it a rat itv got taken to task for not having ethnic minorities in Midsomer Murders why is it that you can’t point out the obvious itv won’t pick a team of all white males and it will either be Persad or Ennis who get chosen to represent ethnics.
Tough if you find it annoying and offensive it is the truth and I stand by the right to say it.
While your general point – that ITV will seek to put together a diverse team – is fine, your use of the word ‘ethnic’ as a noun is not.
Apparently Jeremy Kyle is also a racehorse owner with a bit of a punting problem in his early 20’s
Please don’t take this as me promoting for any presenting position. I really can’t stand him or that show he presents.
John Inverdale is a fantastic presenter imo and would love to see him take a role in any new presenting team
While your general point – that ITV will seek to put together a diverse team – is fine, your use of the word ‘ethnic’ as a noun is not.
Thanks for putting this so succinctly ….a discussion on ethnicity of presenters is totally irrelevant to this discussion and people like Steve who take the opportunity to shoehorn it in and suggest that ‘ethnics’ being represented is a fact and a truth are basically taking a racist position in the sense that they have an inappropriate fixation on an irrelevant aspect of a discussion using unenlightened dated and dehumanising terms .
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