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So the plans from Saturday 18th are as follows

Saturday Afternoon

Lunchtime - On the Ball (ITV1) - Gabby Yorath's footie show extended

2.30pm The Goal Rush (ITV2) - 1st half results service

4pm The Goal Rush (ITV1) - 2nd half results service

7pm The Premiership - Des Lynam joined by Terry Venables & Ally McCoist
(this could be as long as 90 minutes long)

Extended highlights later in the evening

Monday's

The Premiership Parliament (ITV1)

Sounds good to me. But it needs more Gabby Yorath.

Yeah, I heard the press conference was today and have read some of the info on it (Media Guardian has a good article).

Interesting to note only the second half of Goal Rush on ITV1 (I must get used to saying that..) but I hope, at least for August 18th, they show the full programme.

Hopefully ITV2 will become available on DSat soon so I can see the full programme!

Meridian's 'Grass' ident is going to get a good outing then!

Cheers, Asa

This Goal Rush programme. Is it going to be like Sky Sports Soccer Saturday?
I never really watch that but from what I've seen it's very good.

It will be like that, yes. A programme very similar has been running on ITV2 for the last 2 seasons called Football First. The Screen is divided up into 4 parts, a ticker tape, a vidi-printer, the latest scores and the presenter or match reporter. Football First was actually very good I expect Goal Rush will be a replacement with a few tweaks. It will be interesting to see who the presenter is, last season it was Johny Gould, he used to do the Sport on 5 News & Sport at Breakfast. I expect it will be a higher profile presenter on ITV1.

Sounds exactly the same!
Although it wont be as good as Sky's offering

Uh, how I knew you'd say that.

ITV will apparently have lots of gizmos at their disposal, Terry Venables is to be the Andy Gray equivalent on Sky.

Nah, Sky have brought more innovation to football than any other broadcaster. More innovation to sport in general actually.
Why do they need gizmos on a programme like this though?
And Sky have better access to correspondents than ITV.
And of course Sky Sports is the biggest sports network in the world!

I'm not sure why I care anyway.

Blah blah blah blah Sky blah blah blah blah Sky blah blah blah blah Sky blah

lol! even i, hating footy as i do, must admit that sky have changed the face of televised sport. thier trailers are so good they make it look like it might be worth watching - even to me!

i was shocked and appauled by ITV's press conference today where they said football was 'entertainment for the whole family'. what a lot of guff.  i dont know how they expect us to swallow that tripe.

hell mend itv. they will lose the core audience of women that keeps them afloat.  just wait and see.

gav

(Edited by Gavin Scott at 12:22 am on Aug. 3, 2001)

On August 11th, there isn't any new programming on ITV.

But on ITV2 'The Goal Rush' begins, running from 2.30-5.10pm, presented by Angus Scott.

Whilst this is going on, ITV are showing Popstars Australia, The Young Hercules, and a Western Film

It'll be interesting to see what the BBC's response to all this is - will their new studio be ready by the 18th?! I understand they're going to run Football Focus and Final Score as separate programmes on BBC One to try to keep their viewers. I think it's adout time BBC Sport went into widescreen and overhauled the vide-printer, as well as sorted their graphics out in general!