Wimbledon, BBC, taking the....

Have to say - I don’t mind a bit of Monsieur Federer but that’s about it! ?

I will be shouted down here but I have never watched nor understood why anybody would want to watch programmes like Casualty , Doctors,Junior Doctors Holly City etc.
I never watched Emergency Ward 10 either or Call the midwife.
What on earth is the attraction?

I think more than anything else it’s the sheer arrogance of the BBC in assuming they know best. It was the same match on BBC1 and 2 and for considerably longer than a minute. It’s also the discourtesy to the licence payers that absolutely no notice is given of changes to schedules - and the priority that is given to sport simply beggars belief. On the evening that England’s women were knocked out of the World Cup, it was the lead item on News At Ten and went on for nearly 15 minutes which to me was disgraceful. Also, when the match is finished - any match, be it tennis, football, golf, rugby, cricket, whatever - let that be at end to it,no post mortems please from the so called pundits - something else we had to endure last night which was excruciating, Clare Balding and Martina Navratilova, have you no homes to go back to?

I will say again, I actually enjoy some of Wimbledon, but showing the same match on both BBC 1 & 2 was damn poor planning

Plus, "they" could have had the courtesy to tell "us" what was going on.

Houseseller I have a lot of the respect that you asked me to show, and embrace the fact that we are not all the same (thank goodness, I can think of many people that I'm seriously grateful to be as different from as possible!)

Perhaps the poster who suggested that I "get over myself" might like to take your advice.

Well said Grammargran - missing Casualty itself is not the issue - it is the assumption that all sport is more important than anything else! Add to that the endless chit chat afterwards by the experts and you have a very boring schedule for non-sports fans.

OO! I've just had a précédent vu! (opposite of déjà vu - according to me!)
What programmes make you reach for the OFF button? Casualty! Eugh! Not real! Rubbish! Such dreadful people and so stupid!

Now.. today the Tennis:

Go Coco! Go Coco! Go Coco!

What an inspiration! Such a poised young lady! Yes our Wimbledon is unique, the best tennis tournament in the world. We should be proud of it!

Lancslass1 Me too. Do they stop to look at road accidents as well?

but the football is not on the telly for 10 and 1/2 hours on bbc1 and also at the same time on bbc2 for 9 and 1/2 hours for 2 solid weeks and neither is the cricket.

Actually, I must support grammargran

sheer arrogance of the BBC in assuming they know best. It was the same match on BBC1 and 2

It's not tennis, or Casualty, or any of them. It is the program organisers. The BBC themselves. I really do think our license fee is an appalling waste of money. It has been for many years. The BBC is too comfortably protected from the customers' preferences to have to try very hard. That, plus their obvious bias in so many programs. From thinking, when I was young, that it was a wonderful institution of which we could be so proud, I now do not trust it and find it at best irritating and at worst disgraceful.

I agree with you, Tillybelle about Coco.
What an inspiration she is ,as you say.

I love watching tennis and am enjoying seeing the newly refurbished Wimbledon and players old and new.

What I really, really dislike is when I have to go out and set a match to record on whichever channel it's on. Then when I try to watch it later I discover that it has moved channels part way through! I do record both BBC1 and 2 as insurance, but if the match is still playing it's almost impossible to get to the recording without accidentally seeing the live status. And if it's been demoted to the red button, my equipment won't record from there. Plus it's not an HD channel so the picture quality is poorer.

I know this doesn't affect the majority of people (imagine the outcry if they switched channels randomly part way through a footie match!) but if the Beeb go to the bother of televising a sporting event it'd be nice to watch that to its conclusion!

Cant stand tennis, give me a football match any day (will now duck below the parapet)!

I to am fed up with tennis,as others have commented,why does it have to be on three channels at once!Some of us aren't sports fanatics,and prefer something else to watch and don't say there are loads more channels to watch.Yes if you want to see the same thing for the hundredth time.Roll on the week after next.

If I could just say in defence of Casualty which several posters have dismissed as unrealistic rubbish, I have been watching The Restaurant that Makes Mistakes, a series about a pop-up restaurant manned by people with varying types of early-onset dementia, overseen by a Michelin-starred chef, and I was struck by how the experience of women on the program is very reminiscent of that of Sister Duffy in Casualty who is in the same position.

It maybe once year but it takes over the whole tv. I am out doing sport, cycling and walking not sat it glued to the tv. When I get home, like now, after a day cycling 30 odd miles I like to sit and relax watching some of the nonsense you object to Gran 2028. Suggest you get yourself outside and get some fresh air and exercise and then maybe you might be a bit more tolerant.

You will never hear me complaining about Wimbledon. I met my lovely husband 54 years ago in the overnight queue there and 2 children and 5 grandchildren later, I still love my tennis.

I'm very pleased ? could see the Nadal match here on Rhodes while enjoying a large Mythos!!

I would watch Rafa Nadal anytime and anywhere. Some of the other players are quite boring really.

Rafa is my hero. A wonderful player, rarely complains, doesn’t swear on court, just a thoroughly nice man. I like Goffin too.

Most people can watch other stuff by going on the iPlayer, itv hub etc. But I agree, showing the same thing on 2 channels is like telling us we have to watch it, which as far as I’m concerned is out of order. I’m a sports fan but there is a limit.

I’m a tennis nut. Love Wimbledon, my favourite time of year.

Yes we can watch other stuff on player but we are also licence payers and the BBC should not monopolise their viewing time with just sport. . Its all about having an alternative

Just to remind you that they also showed Glasto on both 1&2 every day.
Why on earth don't they have a dedicated muzak fest channel and a sport channel.
It would make things so much easier for those of us not into fests or tennis/footie.

Having had tennis forced on me all young life - parents met at a tennis club, went to Wimbledon for part of their honeymoon and played competitively every weekend every summer - I choose to watch little sport now I have a choice. I did surprisingly enjoy the match which replaced Casualty but what I want to know is 'When will the missed episode be shown'. They simply said 'at a later time.' I usually record it and as I'm about to go away on business I expect all the schedules will be messed up all week so goodness knows what I'll end up recording in my absence. I have no problem with replacing programmes as there is plenty of other choice but I do need to know when they are rescheduled for!

I’m afraid the BBC do overkill with sport full stop. They seem to think we are all mad about any sport and other programmes can be shunted to other times or taken off completely. They don’t care about balance.