Well, I haven't moaned for a while but the BBC really got my hackles up last night....
So I turned the TV on at about 6.15 and looked through the program guide. Not much on apart from Indiana Jones - OK its an old film but not any the worse for having seen it a load of times. Well, settled down in anticipation of large rolling rocks and evil nazi's and what did I get? An announcement from the BBC which essentially said "those of you who wanted to watch Indiana Jones - tough. Tennis (which was scheduled to be on BBC2) is far more important so we're cancelling our published schedule". Obviously the whole nation wants to watch a whinging scotsman playing in what, his second match so it must be really important eh?
I for one (and certainly not the only one) have no interest in tennis. Come to that I'm not bothered about rugby, horse racing, olympics and pretty much any other sport - not to the extent that it should interfere with 'normal viewing'. If I was interested in sport I'd subscribe to Sky Sports or espn - you know, TV channels designed for sports fans....
The BBC must think that the whole population is sports mad.... surely the people wanting to watch Mr. 'I'll support any team other than England' Murray are in a minority and the license payer really shouldn't have to be buggered around every time the BBC deem some sports event as being so important that it needs to go on their main channel? Why the hell couldn't the tennis have stayed on BBC2 last night? Then everyone who wanted to watch would already have been watching.... And what did they put on BBC2 instead of the tennis?? Top of the Pops 60's special followed by Les Dawson (yawn).... It's not as if the BBC haven't got plenty of other channels at their disposal - what about BBC3 and BBC4?
So what did I end up watching? Repeats of the Simpsons and Jason Bourne.... certainly not bloody bouncing balls!
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Bloody tennis
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