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Good Evening Britain

Was that a particularly strong brand of cooking sherry you were slurping overnight?
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Good Evening Britain

Yea I'm pretty sure the "I support Wales and whichever team England's playing" rule is only a rugby thing.


Nope. Heartily cheered on Belgium last night. Just cos we share the same god-awful piece of rock doesn't mean I should automatically start singing Three Lions every two years.
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Good Evening Britain

GEB was watched by 2.91M last night


Hang on, that's not according to this tweet...





The peak was due to the inheritance from the match. After less than 20 minutes on-air that 5.25m (which was actually before GEB started) audience had dropped to 3.06m. Losing 2.2 million (or more than 40%) of your audience in less than 20 minutes isn't groundbreakingly successful.


I guess that's what happens when you serve up Piers F***ing Moron, Jeremy F***ing Corbyn and Ed F***ing Balls straight after an England loss. Many pint glasses were thrown at many pub TVs last night, I'd wager.
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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

Are we the only country where the rights holder actually covers more that one nation that are possible to qualify for the World Cup?

I’m thinking this, because they keep showing coverage in other countries where the commentators and/or presenters go mental when their team scores, whereas here they always have to keep a slight element of being calm and neutral to satisfy viewers not in England. Of course that element can vary in how prominent it is.


The Nordic countries tend to root for each other in the main -- although there's a healthy rivalry between Sweden and Denmark, there were some pretty glum faces when Australia equalised against Denmark last Thursday.

The SVT commentators were pretty ecstatic when Iceland scored against Argentina mind.
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TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

I may have mentioned this already, but on an episode of Thunderbirds I've got taped from the BBC2 broadcasts 1991-2, in particular one of the Sunday afternoon repeats of "Cry Wolf", there's interference messing about with the signal.

Instead of any apology or stopping the episode to sort it out, a grey box with the words "THERE IS INTERFERENCE ON VISION" came up briefly while it sorted itself out.
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BT Sport - Launch of BT Sport Ultimate

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Sweden v Denmark not available in UK. Found a stream online though in English with no DOG. World feed production perhaps...but for who?

Where did you find the stream? Trying to find out who the commentators were.


C-MORE English feed (Sweden online/satellite broadcast subscription service).
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BT Sport - Launch of BT Sport Ultimate

That means my XL pack will be going up on Vermin. Joy.
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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

On the other hand, good opportunity for B-team and up-and-coming talent etc to cut their teeth. You forget there are scores of these "unloved" games every season with the multi-match-screen coverage of Champions League group games that are of zero interest to certain audiences but whose English-language coverage may be seen and heard by other audiences around the world and used for highlights packages etc.

I for one was grateful to the English-language crew who worked Sweden v Denmark and Sweden v Peru in the Warm Up matches for C-More, whose coverage was taken up by BeIn Sports USA, for example.
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EastEnders

It was the 80s. There was a topless woman in the opening titles to Holiday too.....
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

The fact he's interviewing a puppet ??? On BBC News. Do you need more evidence? Are you seriously suggesting that 10+ years ago BBC News 24 would have interviewed a puppet? That's dumbing down enough for me from a world-renowned broadcaster like the BBC. But like I say, that's the times we live in for you.


Don't watch tonight's NewsDay then. Cookie Monster was interviewed about his "guide to life", complete with name aston.
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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

Germany need to make it through the group first.


BlåGult will do their best to do a Croatia on them this lördag
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2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

One final wrinkle from Sweden: TV4 cross promoted which games featuring Sweden would be shown on SVT1, and also the CMORE streaming service.