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ITV are bringing-back wrestling to our screens:
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/television/itv-brings-wrestling-back-rebooted-world-sport/
The World Of Sport returns.
A quick round of wrestling before the next race starts?
ITV7 anyone?
ITV were on a dummy run yesterday at Cheltenham, they made a cringeworthy attempt of changing the winners’ presentation process with a ramp from the front up to the usual platform and replaced Charlie Parkin with John McDoanld (who apparently is the caller for Darts & Boxing ?) calling the connections up. Highly embarrassing.
Can you elaborate as to why this was so cringeworthy?
The rest don’t concern me, but who are the form experts going to be?
Value Is EverythingThe rest don’t concern me, but who are the form experts going to be?
Mick Fitz?
Seeing him and Rishi being so useless today I still can’t believe they are both moving to ITV
Mick Fitz?
Nice guy but oh, that droning nasal delivery does my head in.
Richard Hughes commented in Racing Post yesterday that the coverage should be much more along the lines of the French. Much more on the horses and a lot less about the ‘noise’ the presenters make. He thinks there are far too many presenters and only a couple are needed to present and let the camera work with the horses do the rest. French coverage has many good slow motion coverage of the horses going to post etc, isn’t that what racing is all about, not a show about watching presenters.
Richard Hughes is as usual spot on. When brough Scott presented the racing he just lived and breathed horses and iirc most of the commentary was done while watching the runners go to post. It’s not rocket science. It’s about horse racing,not hearing loads of voices. The morning line or the itv equivalent is where everybody can get their tuppence worth in. Let’s just see the horses. Gary obrien is the only guy out there who has a huge knowledge of horses(mostly Irish I grant you) and I think would be ideal. Five live are using him for some big meetings now. Actually five lives coverage is way better than channel four. Lol.
Gary obrien is the only guy out there who has a huge knowledge of horses…
That simply isn’t true, is it? I’m sure that Messrs O’Brien, Gosden, Nicholls, Mullins, et al know a fair bit about horses.
And let’s not forget Cider Dave and Jamaican Tony from my local bookies.
Richard Hughes was spot on, racing coverage should be more about the horses and less about opinions,interviews and presenters. Trainers only tell you what they want you to hear anyway,unless they are rookies.Stoutey is the best though, he tells them a complete load of cobblers and Henry told Persad where to go.But they don
t take the hint,we seem stuck with these racing for change lot and thats it.Richard Hughes is as usual spot on.
People have been very selective of what Hughes said to suit their own views. He was also full of praise for Jason Weaver. Personally, after that I wouldn’t be rushing to promote anything he said.
Expect a return to the old Radio Two-style awful links and puns when Brough Scott returns to the fold.
They got so cringeworthy towards the end of his Channel 4 days that it was often excruciatingly contrived.
As in: “Galileo (or whoever) certainly showed a good turn of foot there. One man who always shows a good turn of foot – John McCririck.”
Cue loud laughing and an equally corny response from McCririck.
Brough’s awful puns became legendary for the wrong reasons. His on-screen double act with John Oaksey was always cringe making, with Oaksey insisting on referring to him as “Scott”.
No doubt his new role will see him becoming the wise old sage in the way taken in recent years by Alastair Down in his “purple prose” reflections for big meetings like Cheltenham.
Still haven’t heard about an ITV role for Emma Spencer (who is actually competent and good at what she does) and Tanya Stevenson yet (who, er, isn’t).
It all seems positively underwhelming. Thank the Lord for the Great Survivors Rishi Persad and Mick Fitzgerald (not).
I hear Nick Luck is going to stay on Channel 4 and take over as host of Great British Bake Off
Sounds as if he’s in the running to front NBC’s initial coverage of Royal Ascot in the States
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