Saturday, January 06, 2007
After All The Hype, The Fall Is Always Good Entertainment
Friday night and BBC Two's Newsnight, essential viewing for me, featured pieces on cheap airline flights after the row between some obscure government minister and Michael O'Leary of Ryanair, Bush's cabinet reshuffle, and the Baghdad Blogger talking about life under Saddam.
All interesting and informative stuff.
Given the fact that here in Scotland we have a regional Scottish variation of BBC Two, and given the fact that immediately after Newsnight England were to be treated to the 'highlights' of their thrashing at the hands of the Australians at cricket, I awaited a watchable movie, or documentary, or maybe even Tom & Jerry to appear after the Newsnight credits had rolled.
We got the cricket.
Now, I don't begrudge anyone a win at cricket, football, tennis, tiddleywinks or even the egg and spoon race but, like before the football World Cup, what gets up my nose are the endless weeks of speculation, discussion, punditry and certainty that English victory is as inevitable as daylight will follow the dark and that, THIS time, defeat is impossible.
Perhaps the chappies at the Beeb thought this was essential viewing for the whole nation. Perhaps they had run out of interesting alternatives, or lost their movie collection and everything else that wasn't English cricket.
Or was it that someone at the Corporation had a wicked sense of humour, and thought we Scots might appreciate seeing the humiliation of the English team after suffering all the weeks of hype and ridiculous predictions of great victories on the lead-up to the Ashes?
If so, the person who made the decision got it just right.
It was more amusing than Tom & Jerry.
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All interesting and informative stuff.
Given the fact that here in Scotland we have a regional Scottish variation of BBC Two, and given the fact that immediately after Newsnight England were to be treated to the 'highlights' of their thrashing at the hands of the Australians at cricket, I awaited a watchable movie, or documentary, or maybe even Tom & Jerry to appear after the Newsnight credits had rolled.
We got the cricket.
Now, I don't begrudge anyone a win at cricket, football, tennis, tiddleywinks or even the egg and spoon race but, like before the football World Cup, what gets up my nose are the endless weeks of speculation, discussion, punditry and certainty that English victory is as inevitable as daylight will follow the dark and that, THIS time, defeat is impossible.
Perhaps the chappies at the Beeb thought this was essential viewing for the whole nation. Perhaps they had run out of interesting alternatives, or lost their movie collection and everything else that wasn't English cricket.
Or was it that someone at the Corporation had a wicked sense of humour, and thought we Scots might appreciate seeing the humiliation of the English team after suffering all the weeks of hype and ridiculous predictions of great victories on the lead-up to the Ashes?
If so, the person who made the decision got it just right.
It was more amusing than Tom & Jerry.
See all recent posts.
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