Total Moronic BBC Scheduling

"Noggin" wrote in message
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Agamemnon wrote:
Who was the MORON at the BBC who decided to schedule the Grand Prix
practice session on BBC1 instead of Merlin and now it's overrunning into
Strictly Come Dancing by 15 minutes and it looks like its going to be
another ****ing hour before the qualifying session is even going to start
because of a rain delay.

LIKE WHO **** WAS GOING TO WATCH THIS CRAP TO BEGIN WITH?

How many people did the BBC think it was going to get. Merlin get 6
million. Strictly get 9 million.

ITS A ****ING PRACTICE SESSION FOR ****S SAKE. IT'S NOT EVEN THE ACTUAL
****ING GRAND PRIX!

Why didn't these ****ing morons put it on interactive.

Someone tell me how many viewers it got. I doubt it will be over a 1
million.

****ING IMBECILES!

somewhat annoyed, I feel

I bet he's unreasonable as a customer or patient.

Bill

Java Jive ] said:

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:04:02 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

Java Jive ] said:

Yes, I thought one of the major purposes of the extra interactive
channels was to allow flexibility when sporting events overrun.

Not everyone can get digital yet.

Too bad, then.

Apparently not, as the BBC have decided that BBC1 and BBC2 are the right
place for most sport for the time being even if that means bumping the
occasional popularist programme to show it.

Just like in the old days before VCRs when I had to go
out of an evening when there was something I wanted to watch.

Yes. Perhaps you should think about that yourself next time a sporting
event over runs.



F1 is a two day event and the qualifying is just as important as the
race, arguably more so in some cases as the race is made and broken by
the strategy and outcome of the qualifying session.

I am fully aware of how it works, as I sometimes watch the races.

I have friends who "sometimes watch the races" and they do not get that
qualifying is key either but that just shows the difference between
casual viewers and those who following the sport.

Without qualifying, F1 is just cars going round and round and round,
occasionally crashing into the barriers With qualifying, it becomes a
subtle game of skill and strategy.

I do not "get" football so I quite understand that similarly, some
people will never "get" F1. :-)

It would be a bit like just showing the finals at Wimbledon but not
bothering to broadcast any of the previous 14 days worth of
"qualifying" matches that set up who the participants of the finals
would be.

No, the analogy doesn't fit. A better one would be having to watch a
pre-match just to decide which team should have which top-class
players in a given position, or how many players were in each team.

The analogy does fit but you want to be disagreeable. But that's cool.

;-)


Qualifying is tedious in the extreme (especially when it's stretched
out by bad weather).

You are entitled to your opinion but no one who has a passion for F1
will be agreeing with you and the very fact that you think that means
you do not really understand what is going on and how relevant it is to
the race - it is part of the whole and the race is devalued without it.

And while the bad weather was unfortunately, it is actually quite rare
for F1 to seriously impinge on other viewers programmes and I think this
might even have been the first time this season, which isn't bad given
this is the second to last race.

I suggest next time you are watching it, you
compare the total time watching cars going round the track against the
total time watching people talking.

No different to any other sport and personally I enjoy the news, views
and articles that help make up the coverage. It's all part of it.

Mark Carver ] said:

Yellow wrote:

I don't think a 15 minute delay on the dancing is going to kill anyone
and it was (thank you BBC for not just abandoning the coverage!)
transferred over to BBC2 for the rest of the session at that point.

No, although it was clear by 19:15hrs that nothing was going to get going
before 19:30hrs, so they could have gone to SCD at the scheduled time.

SCD? Sorry, I dunno what that is.

I think it was moved to BBC2 at the time it was as that was the least
disruptive to the schedule as it was the time at which the next BBC2
programme was due to start. So, BBC2 viewers got to see the end of the
current show and those waiting for Come Dancing only had to wait 15 mins
for their show.


As it was, once BBC 1 released the GP to BBC 2, we still had a couple of
minutes of promos, just to pointlessly delay things further.

I switched to BBC2 with the F1 so didn't see that, but I know that sort
of thing that annoyed me in the past when it has meant I have lost the
end of a VCR recording because of it. At least now we have PVRs that can
juggle recordings on the fly so that's something anyway.


I wonder if the continuous coverage, including the 30 second overlap with BBC
2, was actually some contractual agreement with Bernie E, that the BBC must
provide *uninterrupted* coverage ?

Dunno, but it was very very much appreciated by those of us who have
been watching every F1 show on the BBC for the last 17 races, getting up
in the middle of the night for some and sitting inside on sunny
afternoons for others, who would have been heart broken to have missed
the eventual restart and the successful conclusion of this session.

Thank you BBC!

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In , Java Jive
wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:
ITS A ****ING PRACTICE SESSION FOR ****S SAKE. IT'S NOT EVEN THE
ACTUAL
****ING GRAND PRIX!

Exactly.

Exactly wrong. The 3 Practice sessions were two on Friday and one earlier
on Saturday. This was the Qualifying session.

But they didn't show it. It didn't even start until the middle of Strictly
if at all.


But I don't understand why the BBC broadcasts the qualifying sessions,
in the first place. It strikes me as being a complete waste of
resources - that is, licence payers' money.

Duh, well it's part of the event. Perhaps you think that sporting events
should only ever have the final shown, and never the semi-finals or
quarter-finals beforehand.

Why not just point a camera at a newly painted wall and everyone on BBC1 can
be forced to watch paint dry too and miss the programmes they really want to
watch.

"JohnT" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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The OP's rant is proof (as if proof were needed) that the BBC's normal
output appeals to morons.

I am pleased that you derive enjoyment from the BBC.

I am pleased that you'll die soon.

Agamemnon ] said:

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In , Java Jive
wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:
ITS A ****ING PRACTICE SESSION FOR ****S SAKE. IT'S NOT EVEN THE
ACTUAL
****ING GRAND PRIX!

Exactly.

Exactly wrong. The 3 Practice sessions were two on Friday and one earlier
on Saturday. This was the Qualifying session.

But they didn't show it. It didn't even start until the middle of Strictly
if at all.

Q1 started more-or-less on schedule and the session was halted partway
through the delayed Q2 - all this was shown *before* the dancing show,
which started at 7:30pm.

Coverage then switched to BBC2 for a further 50 minutes where the
restarted session was shown to the end.


But I don't understand why the BBC broadcasts the qualifying sessions,
in the first place. It strikes me as being a complete waste of
resources - that is, licence payers' money.

Duh, well it's part of the event. Perhaps you think that sporting events
should only ever have the final shown, and never the semi-finals or
quarter-finals beforehand.

Why not just point a camera at a newly painted wall and everyone on BBC1 can
be forced to watch paint dry too and miss the programmes they really want to
watch.

All this fuss over a 15 minute delay to a show? Given that it is rare
for F1 overruns to disrupt the schedule and that it is rare for F1 to be
shown prime time at all, this outcry seems grossly disproportionate to
the disruption actually caused.

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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"JohnT" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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The OP's rant is proof (as if proof were needed) that the BBC's normal
output appeals to morons.

I am pleased that you derive enjoyment from the BBC.

I am pleased that you'll die soon.

That's a bit harsh.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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"JohnT" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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The OP's rant is proof (as if proof were needed) that the BBC's normal
output appeals to morons.

I am pleased that you derive enjoyment from the BBC.

I am pleased that you'll die soon.

That's a bit harsh.

He deserves more actually. He's a nasty old sod in every post and to every
person.

We know why you like watching COME Dancing cos you can get the old pink oboe
out. Don't forget the cling film on the screen before you start.

So don't get all upset when some us like to do the same during the F1
qualifying...NOT practice session. Where's the cling film dear...


"Agamemnon" wrote in message
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Who was the MORON at the BBC who decided to schedule the Grand Prix
practice session on BBC1 instead of Merlin and now it's overrunning into
Strictly Come Dancing by 15 minutes and it looks like its going to be
another ****ing hour before the qualifying session is even going to start
because of a rain delay.

LIKE WHO **** WAS GOING TO WATCH THIS CRAP TO BEGIN WITH?

How many people did the BBC think it was going to get. Merlin get 6
million. Strictly get 9 million.

ITS A ****ING PRACTICE SESSION FOR ****S SAKE. IT'S NOT EVEN THE ACTUAL
****ING GRAND PRIX!

Why didn't these ****ing morons put it on interactive.

Someone tell me how many viewers it got. I doubt it will be over a 1
million.

****ING IMBECILES!

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:30:40 +0100
"Agamemnon" wrote:
a load of foul-mouth stuff.

If you realised how much of the BBC Tax that Aunty spent buying the
rights to the Grand Prix from Bernie, you'd realise why they don't
think trampling over a mass-market couch-potato show like Strictly
Bitch About Dancing is particularly important. Especially given their
ratings compared to the other one, whose name escapes me.

Personally I went to bed early,
R.