Joe Lemon - U R not funny
22-08-2001, 01:07:AM
After watching the first two ITV Premiership shows, I'm already beginning to miss the national institution that is MOTD...
The Premiership - not just did ITV's big cheeses have such superb imaginative minds to come up with such an original name for their highlights show, but the quality of the content I saw should make the show be renamed "The Conference", or even "The Sunday League" (shudder)...
I know it's Tuesday as I write this but I'm amazed that nobody who lives in the UK has spotted how ITV's new football highlights show was so bad it got trounced by a quiz-show that I don't understand and presented by a racist on the Beeb...
Yes I see Des is back on the telly on Saturday nights, and just like what he did on his first match for ITV, he tried to make us think we were watching MOTD once again but didn't know the time. I was wondering whether he'd say "Coming soon on BBC1..." at the end of the show...!!!
I found there was too much talk, and not enough football. We had El Tel talking about this ProZone thing, which apart from sounding like a drug prescribed for depression, it just looks like an enlarged radar system of that you see of the top corner of any FIFA game. They must have given Arsène Wenger a nice big cheque to give it a blag. How he needed that for tonight's defeat against Leeds (it's called your defence is sh*t mate!)...
And then there was that Tactics Truck, with a wooden Andy Townsend interviewing a confused Ugo Ehiogu and literally telling him that he was sh*t. "So you lost 4-0...", which sounds about right for Middlesbrough. By this time I was already going into the kitchen fridge looking for something stronger than beer to ask myself why I was watching this show!
Funnily enough for a truck featured on TV, there was no illegal immigrants hiding in it, and it also had purple furnishings in there - gross! Worse than that was the show set, a weird mix of television sets and metal.
And when we did get the football I found that the commentary was lacking - zzzz!!!
It got to the point where I wished the ground would just swallow the TV up because I was already starting to miss the likes of Motty's commentary and asking why there was a needless interview inbetween the highlights of the Liverpool - West Ham game.
But one thing I don't like is that cos it's ITV, we get commercials. And none moreso than the Coke sponsored mitherings featuring a granny of a footballer who is ironically from the same town as me.
But my main gripe is that the show is broadcast at 7pm - some of us who wanted to see what happened in the footy had to sacrifice two hours of pub time for a start. And then exactly the same content was shown at 11pm for those arriving in after a skinfull!
But what about that "Premiership Parliament" thing yesterday? I thought I'd tape it as I was working nights, but when I got to watch it this morning I saw the goals, made considerable use of the FAST FORWARD button on the VCR, and then taped something for my mother over it...
Now I wonder why they added the word "Parliament" to it - just like the everyday happenings at the House of Commons, it was a load of people talking bollcoks and seemed to be full of argument. For a moment I thought I taped Kilroy by mistake.
I think Ally McCoist's director must have been holding his contract over a lighted match - this show made even the MOTD-replacement seem very interesting!!!
I might be complaining about Sky ringing me up every 10 minutes with some Scottish guy on the other end asking "Dee yae want tae upgrade to the Premiership channel fer 60 quid?" and that the subscription is about 30-odd quid a month, but let's face it, I'd rather pay for some good quality football than just something that resembled the old "Saint & Greavsie" show that used to be ITV's football highlight of the week (or maybe not)...
Looks like Saturday night is yet another reason to go out on the town to get pissed - who else agrees with me that ITV were pathetic?
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The Premiership - not just did ITV's big cheeses have such superb imaginative minds to come up with such an original name for their highlights show, but the quality of the content I saw should make the show be renamed "The Conference", or even "The Sunday League" (shudder)...
I know it's Tuesday as I write this but I'm amazed that nobody who lives in the UK has spotted how ITV's new football highlights show was so bad it got trounced by a quiz-show that I don't understand and presented by a racist on the Beeb...
Yes I see Des is back on the telly on Saturday nights, and just like what he did on his first match for ITV, he tried to make us think we were watching MOTD once again but didn't know the time. I was wondering whether he'd say "Coming soon on BBC1..." at the end of the show...!!!
I found there was too much talk, and not enough football. We had El Tel talking about this ProZone thing, which apart from sounding like a drug prescribed for depression, it just looks like an enlarged radar system of that you see of the top corner of any FIFA game. They must have given Arsène Wenger a nice big cheque to give it a blag. How he needed that for tonight's defeat against Leeds (it's called your defence is sh*t mate!)...
And then there was that Tactics Truck, with a wooden Andy Townsend interviewing a confused Ugo Ehiogu and literally telling him that he was sh*t. "So you lost 4-0...", which sounds about right for Middlesbrough. By this time I was already going into the kitchen fridge looking for something stronger than beer to ask myself why I was watching this show!
Funnily enough for a truck featured on TV, there was no illegal immigrants hiding in it, and it also had purple furnishings in there - gross! Worse than that was the show set, a weird mix of television sets and metal.
And when we did get the football I found that the commentary was lacking - zzzz!!!
It got to the point where I wished the ground would just swallow the TV up because I was already starting to miss the likes of Motty's commentary and asking why there was a needless interview inbetween the highlights of the Liverpool - West Ham game.
But one thing I don't like is that cos it's ITV, we get commercials. And none moreso than the Coke sponsored mitherings featuring a granny of a footballer who is ironically from the same town as me.
But my main gripe is that the show is broadcast at 7pm - some of us who wanted to see what happened in the footy had to sacrifice two hours of pub time for a start. And then exactly the same content was shown at 11pm for those arriving in after a skinfull!
But what about that "Premiership Parliament" thing yesterday? I thought I'd tape it as I was working nights, but when I got to watch it this morning I saw the goals, made considerable use of the FAST FORWARD button on the VCR, and then taped something for my mother over it...
Now I wonder why they added the word "Parliament" to it - just like the everyday happenings at the House of Commons, it was a load of people talking bollcoks and seemed to be full of argument. For a moment I thought I taped Kilroy by mistake.
I think Ally McCoist's director must have been holding his contract over a lighted match - this show made even the MOTD-replacement seem very interesting!!!
I might be complaining about Sky ringing me up every 10 minutes with some Scottish guy on the other end asking "Dee yae want tae upgrade to the Premiership channel fer 60 quid?" and that the subscription is about 30-odd quid a month, but let's face it, I'd rather pay for some good quality football than just something that resembled the old "Saint & Greavsie" show that used to be ITV's football highlight of the week (or maybe not)...
Looks like Saturday night is yet another reason to go out on the town to get pissed - who else agrees with me that ITV were pathetic?
[ 08-21-2001: Message edited by: [= FCS Rulez =] ]