nicko31
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Channel 5 to show FL highlights next season; Saturday nights at 9pm
- Thread starter shaolinpunk
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The hope is that they'd see The Football League as beneath them. Only the very highest standard of football is worthy of Townsend, Chiles, Tyldesley etc.
Austrian Gull
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Germans have been managing it for decades with Das Sportschau
One hour from end of the matches to the beginning of the Bundesliga highlights on a Saturday evening.
Better programme than MOTD: no pundits, lets the action speak for itself.
World of Sport
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It would be good if Channel 5 could do a round-up of the midweek games as well, as the highlights used to go awol on the BBC.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,313
9pm is good for exposure, not so good for fans that go out or don't have control of the TV Saturdays evenings.
Austrian Gull
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A very good point with there being so many rounds of the Championship played midweek.
Never live games shown from the Championship here midweek either - really annoying.
brakespear
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Cian
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I can only get C5 on the Freesat box in the kitchen and not my cable boxes which means I'll likely never remember to even record let alone watch this.
Marty___Mcfly
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- Sep 14, 2011
- 2,251
Details here
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/05/channel-5-football-league-highlights-saturday-9pm
I tend to record the Football League Show and just skip through to the Albion game. So for me, having ad breaks isn't an issue- this just means I might catch the 'highlights' of the game on Saturday night rather than Sunday morning.
I can imagine watching this live, with lots of games you aren't interested in, lots of adverts, and probably shit pundits, will all in all be a pretty painful experience if all you are really waiting for is 90 seconds footage from the Albion game.
Shame it didn't go to BT Sport- they have a pretty good line up of pundits bar a few dull (Owen, Scholes) or just crap (Jake Humphries) examples. The BT European Football show with James Richardson is pretty well done and I think that has alot to do with having journalists as pundits rather than just relying on ex-players..
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/05/channel-5-football-league-highlights-saturday-9pm
I tend to record the Football League Show and just skip through to the Albion game. So for me, having ad breaks isn't an issue- this just means I might catch the 'highlights' of the game on Saturday night rather than Sunday morning.
I can imagine watching this live, with lots of games you aren't interested in, lots of adverts, and probably shit pundits, will all in all be a pretty painful experience if all you are really waiting for is 90 seconds footage from the Albion game.
Shame it didn't go to BT Sport- they have a pretty good line up of pundits bar a few dull (Owen, Scholes) or just crap (Jake Humphries) examples. The BT European Football show with James Richardson is pretty well done and I think that has alot to do with having journalists as pundits rather than just relying on ex-players..
Quite. We'll have to sit through moronic adverts for lager hoping that the actual action lasts more than a few minutes.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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surrey jim
Not in Surrey
9PM Saturday, Channel 5
According to Virgo it's in a Top Gear, audience interaction, style studio.
Fingers crossed for loadsa bantz.
Fingers crossed for loadsa bantz.
So, what’s on the show? Football League Tonight will feature extended coverage of the weekend’s best matches and will include every single goal from all three divisions. Players, managers and fans will be joining Kelly and George in the studio each week and the viewers can also get involved on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
It's on for longer than the Football League Show ever was
It's on for longer than the Football League Show ever was
Why do they feel the need to put fans in the studio and have interaction on social media? Just attracts gimps that are too old to be wearing football shirts asking moronic questions. The pundits struggle to discuss anything noteworthy without resorting to the usual clichés anyway, so why add fans to the mix.
Football highlight shows should be a simple thing, highlights of the match, a few interviews with the key people, pundits discuss, move on to the next thing.
Rant over.
Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
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I think this is a case of be careful what you wish for.
The FL league show had a bad press on here at times but that is going to feel like TV gold when we watch Dave from Basingstoke say that Reading have a Top, Top chance of getting promotion this year or Malcolm from Middlesbrough engages in Bantz with Tony from Derby about whether Downing is better than Tom Ince. Who does the market research for this stuff? Soccer AM type football shows have been out of date for 10 years. Gary Neville moving on punditry has been well received all round yet someone comes up with this buffonary. I'm surprised they didn't go the whole hog and get Tim Lovejoy to front it.
The only hope is that it is so bad it's good.
The FL league show had a bad press on here at times but that is going to feel like TV gold when we watch Dave from Basingstoke say that Reading have a Top, Top chance of getting promotion this year or Malcolm from Middlesbrough engages in Bantz with Tony from Derby about whether Downing is better than Tom Ince. Who does the market research for this stuff? Soccer AM type football shows have been out of date for 10 years. Gary Neville moving on punditry has been well received all round yet someone comes up with this buffonary. I'm surprised they didn't go the whole hog and get Tim Lovejoy to front it.
The only hope is that it is so bad it's good.
TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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40 minutes to go
Seasider78
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- Nov 14, 2004
- 5,939
Agree with this really enjoyed listening to Rosenior good knowledge of the football league and generally calls it right
BrianWade4
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Good time
But I hope the live studio audience isn't as woeful as it sounds...,
But I hope the live studio audience isn't as woeful as it sounds...,