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TV coverage

Truncheon said:
Just seen Talking Pictures TV are showing a re-run of 'The Racing Game'

Was a series from the late 70's, before my time, is it worth watching or not?

On at 8pm Monday 8th December
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Watched the first episode, i was trying to work out which racecourse was used and reckoned it was Catterick but could be wrong

Anyone know?
 
Barnestormer said:
I do hate that Ed Chamberlain when he pauses between every f***ing word!!!!
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When I did a few podcasts I was understandably teased for saying "fair enough" numerous times.

I did it because I hadn't done much broadcasting - and none in years - and it was a device to allow me to gather my thoughts for what to say next.

But I'd like to think if I was broadcasting EVERY F*****G WEEK for YEARS I'd have long since coached myself out of bad habits by now.

I found Ed Chamberlin a nice bloke when I worked with him on Sports Adviser 30 years ago, but tbh I've never thought he was all that as a broadcaster.

Don't envy him, though, I would get bored to tears doing that every week, no matter how good the money was.
 
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Barnestormer said:
I do hate that Ed Chamberlain when he pauses between every f***ing word!!!!
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I remember my younger brother being interviewed on the radio as part of a phone-in competition.

Almost his entire contribution to the conversation was riddle with lengthy "ehhmmm"s as he monitored what he was saying.

- So, what's your name and where do you live?

- Ehhhhmmm, Tom (not his real name) and I'm from, ehhhhmmmm, Clydebank.

- And what do you do, Tom?

- Ehhhhmmmm, I'm ehhhhmmmm a student.

- What are you studying and where?

- Ehhhhmmmm, accountancy ehhhhmmmm and ehhhhmmmm politics at ehhhhmmmm XXXX College.

etc, etc

He probably didn't realise he was doing it and it was only when I heard him that I realised that it was how he actually did talk most of the time.
 
Ever since I can remember there have been four fences in the home straight at Doncaster.

Yesterday, there were only three - I am expecting ITV Racing to be laser focussed on this today.
 
Ian_Davies said:
Ever since I can remember there have been four fences in the home straight at Doncaster.

Yesterday, there were only three - I am expecting ITV Racing to be laser focussed on this today.
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I expected to be disappointed regarding this and, reassuringly, I wasn't disappointed in my expectations of disappointment. #workthatoneout
 
What happened to the Hunts was beyond horrific but do they really need a support fund in order to get by?

I don't imagine the man himself is on the minimum wage at the BBC.

OK, it was almost 60 years ago but my granda was murdered and the assailant got a 30-bob fine with time to pay and my father's family got nothing.

It would make me feel better if there was some kind of announcement that the money was going to a fund for bereaved victims of crime.
 
I thought the Sha Tin coverage today was sound.

Wasn't interested in the pre-race punditry, but thought the commentator and the actual race pictures were good.
 
Just watched the Graham Lee documentary, Life Beyond the Fall which was on after the racing on ITV4. Well worth a watch and very humbling that he's remained so positive.

Highly recommend watching it on catch up TV.
 
Couldn't find this thread when I looked for it earlier.

I presume Sky were responsible for the ITV pictures today but I wouldn't fathom why they persisted with shots from the inner mobile camera up the straight. It gave little idea of how and where they were each racing relative to each other.

The camera view from the grandstand at Ascot is iconic and should always be given preference.

It's a bit like the side-on inner mobile camera at Becher's when they're covering Aintree. The head-on is the iconic view.
 
Dessie I agree with you but we can mute the sound if we wish however it does seem a waste of time turning the pictures off as well 🙉 BRING BACK CEEFAX I SAY :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Gullible said:
Dessie I agree with you but we can mute the sound if we wish however it does seem a waste of time turning the pictures off as well 🙉 BRING BACK CEEFAX I SAY :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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Ahh, Ceefax!! Them were the days.

I have two particularly fond memories of Ceetax (and its ITV equivalents).

The first is during our family holiday in Benidorm back in the late '80s. There was a bar hosted by a Glasgow-Geordie couple ensconced in the bowels of a shopping centre that I'd found and frequented while Mrs O and Orchidette were enjoying their siesta. (I'm presuming Orchidette was sleeping, Mrs O was probably tanking a bottle of gin.)

I recall having a decent bet, which the host took surreptitiously over the counter, on a Clive Brittain filly (whose name escapes me) who won the G1 that day and I got 15/2 via the Ceefax shows. I remember saying to the guy - a very affable Geordie chap who took the doing in good spirits, even serving me a free pint to congratulate me - that I thought the filly should have been a short-priced favourite.

The other was a few years before that. Orchidette wasn't even a tingle in my Y-fronts at the time but we got a week half-board in Benidorm, flying from Glasgow, for £130 for the two of us. That was one of the best holidays we ever had.
 
Desert Orchid said:
Ahh, Ceefax!! Them were the days.

I have two particularly fond memories of Ceetax (and its ITV equivalents).

The first is during our family holiday in Benidorm back in the late '80s. There was a bar hosted by a Glasgow-Geordie couple ensconced in the bowels of a shopping centre that I'd found and frequented while Mrs O and Orchidette were enjoying their siesta. (I'm presuming Orchidette was sleeping, Mrs O was probably tanking a bottle of gin.)

I recall having a decent bet, which the host took surreptitiously over the counter, on a Clive Brittain filly (whose name escapes me) who won the G1 that day and I got 15/2 via the Ceefax shows. I remember saying to the guy - a very affable Geordie chap who took the doing in good spirits, even serving me a free pint to congratulate me - that I thought the filly should have been a short-priced favourite.

The other was a few years before that. Orchidette wasn't even a tingle in my Y-fronts at the time but we got a week half-board in Benidorm, flying from Glasgow, for £130 for the two of us. That was one of the best holidays we ever had.
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I have a wasn't born but still hear about it memory of Ceefax (I was 7 when it ended).
(I support Wycombe Wanderers for context)

 

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