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Ginger Yellow wrote: Whereas on ITV it was only SHIIIIT?
And Guy, how was F1 better on ITV? They didn't even care enough not to have ad breaks during the race!
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Ad breaks aside, the overall package of F1 coverage was definitely better on ITV when they started showing it in the late 90s. More pre and post race coverage, better presentation, more general programming.
Though it did later stagnate horribly and the return to the BBC in 2009 brought about another big improvement.
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Three Times A Reddy wrote:Originally posted by Ginger YellowWhereas on ITV it was only SHIIIIT?
And Guy, how was F1 better on ITV? They didn't even care enough not to have ad breaks during the race!
The whole set up was more professional and focused.
(And that was with the constraints of having to cut to ad breaks)
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Cycling.
BBC usually use the easily confused Hugh Porter for the World Championships and the other races they get; ITV have an excellent team (which they mostly inherited from C4).
Edit - ah, apparently Porter had been replaced by Simon Brotherton. Still, ITV do have the better team, experience, etc.
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Aside from small doses of their 'The Management' routine for C4's Saturday Live, Hale & Pace were pretty desperate whichever channel broadcast them.
I tend to watch ITV news programmes, since I get fed up of the BBC1 HD resorting to that red screen nonsense as soon as it's time to go to the regions.
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: How bad was the Management as a full-length sitcom.
Good themetune, mind. The closing credits, version I mean.
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There are generic programmes that ITV did better: Tiswas was better than Swap Shop; Magpie was arguably better than Blue Peter. This assumes they were trying to do similar things, which may or may not be the case.
I think ITV may have done Speedway better, and horse racing equally as well apart from the BBC having the really big races back in the 80s (Grand National, Derby).
ITV's rugby union World Cup coverage wasn't bad in the Nineties IIRC, perhaps felt more modern than the Beeb's ultra-traditional approach.
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Agree on horse racing. Though the BBC had the best commentator (Peter O'Sullivan), ITV's commentators were good too and they put together a much better all round package. You had John McCrirrick to give a sense of the betting ring (BBC just read out the prices with no sense of where they came from) but also heavyweight students of form like Jim McGrath. And the ITV Six, with people betting on horses at different meetings, was how most people experienced racing at home. Though the BBC was very good at giving a sense of a "day out" for eg Aintree.
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Morecambe and Wise moved to ITV from the Beeb in the biggest case of mojo-losing in television comedy, although, in fairness, Eric's faltering health was a factor in the dilution of their comic power. I think Dave Allen also made the same leap, where he became shouty and obvious. Having Phil Jupitus as part of a scriptwriting team behind him possibly hints at the gradual lack of trademark subtlety he once wielded.
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satchmo76 wrote: I think ITV may have done Speedway better, and horse racing equally as well apart from the BBC having the really big races back in the 80s (Grand National, Derby).
I believe all the flat classics were on ITV during the first half of the 80's (the Shergar 1981 Derby certainly was) and coverage then shifted to C4 when World Of Sport was given the elbow. The BBC eventually wrestled The Derby back at some point but the Guineas and the St Leger have remained on commercial TV ever since.
Cheltenham was lost to C4 in the mid 90's and it was really only Ascot, The National and probably Goodwood which they clung on to till the bitter end.
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