What really irks me is that during the ever lengthening season of sport (whatever it might be - football, rugby, tennis, snooker, cricket, golf, darts, etc, etc, ad infinitum), the BBC , in its infinite wisdom, seems to think that every single licence payer is happy beyond rejoicing, to have their face rubbed not only in the above mentioned sports (and other, less prominent ‘sports’, eg skate boarding (soon to be an olympic event), but is also happy to endure the interminable pre and post “analysis” of the said events by “experts” (there’s a good saying about “experts”, but I’d better not say it here in case I get my knuckles rapped) so that any other scheduling can just go and whistle (putting it very politely), whilst these experts drone on. Well, in actual fact, believe it or not, there are a lot of tv viewers out there who really would like the opportunity to be able to watch other programmes on at least one of your multiple channels that has nothing whatsoever to do with anything remotely sport related, but is also not an old, frequently repeated programme (escape to the country, antiques roadshow, anyone?) or a soap, or a revolting “reality” show, or a cookery show. Choice would be a really good thing, but in programming these days choice (or at least decent choice) seems to have gone by the wayside - if you don’t like sport, soaps, reality drivel, home improvement shows, chat shows, antiques shows, cookery shows, move to the country/town/village shows, you’ve had it, really.
