Yay ITV have seen the light.
ITV has axed that gawd awfull phone in shite Play.
Probably partly to exscape prosecution from offtel and the like.
Probably partly to exscape prosecution from offtel and the like.
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What a waste of Freeview space - either get some proper content up, or free up the space for someone else. We still need a free-to-air sports channel.
Perhaps they should follow BBC's lead, kinda. BBC do educational programming within an hour or so after midnight; ITV should put some decent documentaries on. As long as they're not on bloody penguins.
I agree with that last sentence; partly because of "trailer-itis", I never saw Crappy Feet (and probably never will) because I was sick to death of it before it was even released!
Plus it had the effrontery to win the Oscar instead of Flushed Away, the animation which should have won. :p It'll probably be a long time before I can face playing Pengo or eating one of the choc biscuit bars again. :D
misteaksmistrakesmisyaleserrurs— oh, sod it.And yes, Flushed Away should have won it.
John Cleese summed up Penguins in one sentence in an obscure Python sketch. He called 'em:
Comical, Flightless, Web-footed little ba****ds!
Hehehe...
About 8 channels have this after 12 and theres about 4 or 5 main presenters, most are fine but theres one or two fat older women who try and act cool and dance/sway to the music whilst doing sign language, again i'm not being ant-sign language, its just the way these older mothers are dancing to the music, its like watching your mum/dad get drunk and dance at a wedding.
Prime Evil the program with CGI that looked like it had been generated on a c64. I saw that for the first time this weekend; I was shockingly trite to say the least.
Andrew.
my fave are the stuff for blind people. seen it as an extra audio track on some DVD's. theres a voice that describes the action inbetween the dialouge. was really clever how they do it. although some of the CGI was lost in the translation.
Such a shame they put intelligent programming on so bloody late...
Saying that peaktime tv is so dire on all channels
Much the same as the video game market nowadays :-P
Quite frankly, the only time I deliberately set out to watch terrestrial UK TV is for Football. Live matches on ITV or BBC; Match of the Day and The Championship.
Am I the only one who thinks that the BBC should get the rights to show Championship and League football too, and do a 2 1/2 hour MotD; and get rid of the bloody Eastenders omnibus on a Sunday and show a Championship match. I'd switch Leicester vs. Derby (spit) for loud-mouthed miserable cockneys any day lol...
sport is generally very dull, they need to spice it all up.
at the moment its 'oh a team from a place ive never been to has beaten another team from a place ive never been to, oh wait everyone on the teams aren't from those places anyway, there from abroad, from places ive never been. well at least one team won, wait it was a draw. and some bloke in the dugout who ive never heard of before from some far off land has got angry at his team, big deal. at least its nice to know these palyers are being paid ridiculous amounts to do a job that benefits society as much as me watching the thing.'
Put some landmines on the pitch?
i was thinking more along the lines of speed ball, brutal football, blood bowl.
at the end of the world cup everyone was talking about that french bloke headbutting that other guy, its obvious people want more violence.
make them play on concrete, and have the ball made out of steel, and give the goalie an axe. and at the end, the loosing team has to pick one of their palyers to be hanged.
I do agree that for the most part they're overpaid (and whinging, diving morons), and the majority of teams are composed of players from everywhere else in the world except where the team is actually based (stand up Man Utd & Chelsea, take a bow hehe) but I don't get your point on glorifying it. Football has already been over-glorified in this country because of the foreign invasion of players and the whining and the money. It's the ethos of American Football (i.e. Rugby with kevlar armour and breaks every 12 seconds) combined with a real competitive sport.
If anything, footy needs to take a step back, and look at what it was like post-90's. Hardly any diving, no refs taking back-handers, hardly any multi-million pound players, and Liverpool won EVERYTHING (with, I might add, hardly any money and ENGLISH players - Liverpool is in England, y'see lol.) At the very least, it'd keep my son happy ;-)
And Leicester? Well, they'd still be crap, so no change whatsoever for me hehehe...
I dont care if a team has so many foreigners, its not the year 1920 when every player in every team came from that town. Bit like saying 'i buy a british car' or 'i buy british clothes by a british company' when everythings build abroad or if it is built in the UK its built by a ton of easten europeans as theyre cheap labour.
What should be banned are the 5 or 10 minutes it takes to read out scottish footy results when its scottish division 4 between two crappy teams where only about 500 people bother to turn up and watch. I just want to see the latest league table not know the final score of Alloa vs Brechin League Division 7 in Scotland.
Dont start on american football though ! ;) Thats my big love !
Back to the topic though as we've said many times here before TV progs on a saturday night in the UK are just dire on all channels. I thought i would hate it but i must admit (dont laugh) i do find Harry Hills TV burp quite amusing. Apart from that i'm not a fan of Saturday night TV in the slightest, totally anti-Dr Who and that crap on ITV Primevil
Anyway, briefly back to footy - yep the Scottish League system is outright dumb. 12 teams in 6 different leagues. Merge 'em all into 2 divisions - bigger gates, more competetive leagues, not so long to wait for the results to spin back to the proper English leagues.
Okay... that's the end of Match of the Day. Now switch over for the Channel 5 late night movie :lol:
i just dont get it, im watching a team from a place but the team isn't from that place. what am i suppose to support? in something like formula one, you can support the driver, so being english i will be looking forward to seeing how hammilton does, and and ill be rooting for the team he's on too. (alonso being on the same team has nothing to do with it.)
i mean i do like the world cup as i can get behind our team.
i hope that makes sense.
If you like football, but don't support a team, I guess just watch it and pray it's a bloody good game.
totally agree with you there. certainly more enjoyable that snooker.
However, it's only recently that I am beggining to understand the appeal of football and can actially sit down and enjoy a match on the telly.
It must be somthing to do with age, I hit Thirty last june.
I suppose my feelings towards footy work in reverse ScottyUK. Watching it in the 80's and then seeing it develop into what it is now just makes me wish for the old days again. No gamesmanship, cheating, backhanders, diving. Nobody tried to get another player sent off, and the FA weren't trying to turn it into a non-contact sport.
More entertaining than watching City... cheaper than a season ticket...
What was the name of this thread again hehe...
For me these players (foreign or from other parts of the UK) are representing my city, i'm a Reading fan, most of the players arent from Reading but i dont care, theyre representing my city, putting Reading on the map more, doing lots of charity work and arent being idiots on the field.
Again its like buying a british car, your not buying a british car, most of the workforce are foreign, yeah its a british 'company' but some people seem to think its 100% english people building/designing the car etc
Look at the world cup, cricket/rugby theres a few players who are only in the side because their grannies brothers mums budgie was born in England etc. Probably not so much England but many other sides.
Like the other person said i want to be entertained, not bothered where the players come from, having a team made up of great internationals for me is much more exciting than seeing a group of english players (unless theyre top quality) who arent of the same level.
The game might have seemed better in the 80's but i'm sure there were dodgy backhanders, bad players ,bad fouls, some dodgy cheats but with all of us , looking back with rose tinted glasses we forget all that and even smile when we think of Vinny Jones. Its like looking back at school thinking 'i wish i could go back again, best years of my life', sod that it was crap !
I can easily watch a top premiership side, watching a division 2 side full of mainly english players bores me to death i hate to say. Seeing the top quality regardless of country i enjoy seeing
Look at the England squad - we're pretty good at the moment (on paper anyway) - with the best midfield in the world... but what happens when, instead of good young players coming up through the ranks, your team goes and buys Johnny Foreigner for a few million quid. No more English youth, no more Gerrards or Owens coming up through the ranks.
The quick fix solution isn't available to lower league clubs, so yeah, they have british players but their youth system isn't set up well enough so that these players will be good enough to break through to the top flight and hopefully the full england squad. Of course, there are occassional exceptions (Prestons David Nugent springs to mind) but it won't be enough.
West Ham bought two Argentian internationals earlier this year for a million a shot - and they haven't done the business (check the Premiership table) even though they're entertaining enough to watch... what if West Ham brought in a couple of young players, players with everything to prove, who had the heart and desire to take the club out of the position they're in, instead of a couple of South American prima-donna's?
I'm not saying that the solution is to completely get rid of foreign players - but we don't seem to be giving young players the chance they once had.
At this rate, we'll never have another John Terry, or Beckham, or Lampard... All great players. But these players won't play forever, as is the case now with Beckham. What will the England team be like 10 years from now?
Saddest of all; Liverpool. Once a great institution, with homegrown talent that took the footballing world by storm. Now a shadow of it's former self, bought out by a multi-millionaire. Yes, yes they beat Barcelona, and by rights should go on to win the Champions League (I still prefer to call it the European Cup - another name change brought in to increase revenue) but compared to the team of the 70's & 80's they're quite pitiful.
Oh, and congrats to Reading btw. First time in the Premiership and proved all the doubters wrong! You've done the lower leagues proud :)
Anyway, we seem to be digressing from the topic. I'm sure not everybody here is a footy fan, so coming to a thread marked ITV and seeing all this could be a tad annoying? Any votes for a thread devoted to the beautiful game?