Re: Bloody football!

From	Old John <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	uk.tech.broadcast
Subject	Re: Bloody football!
Date	2026-06-25 15:31 +0000
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On 25 Jun 2026 at 14:12:35 BST, "NY" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

> On 25/06/2026 02:24, jon wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:42:02 +0100, NY wrote:
>> 
>>> Three sodding weeks (at least), football is taking the place of Who Do
>>> You Think You Are? 16, 23 and now 30 June (Digiguide doesn't go any
>>> further ahead than that).
>>> 
>>> Their scheduling department is screwed up - why start a series and then
>>> break it in the middle? Why not show single programmes for a few weeks
>>> and then the whole uninterrupted WDYTYA starting after the football has
>>> finished?
>>> 
>>> Why is is *always* the programmes that I want to watch that are treated
>>> as disposable, and the dross which is allowed to remain. (Don't tell me:
>>> my interests are not mainstream!)
>>> 
>>> I wish BBC would use their Red-Button channels for all live sport, and
>>> leave the normal channels for scheduled same-time-every-week
>>> programming. And let one football match displace another one on RB - oh
>>> dear, how sad, never mind ;-)
>> 
>> Then there will be 'Bat and Ball'
> 
> And I'm sure somewhere in the country/world there will be athletics and
> other sport which "has" to take precedence over regular schedule programmes.
> 
> I've just seen on Digiguide that Who Do You Think You Are episode 4
> (Ruth Madeley) is being shown on Thursday 9 July (not Tuesday 7 July) on
> BBC Two.

I wonder how the Invicta games will fare?

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Bloody football! NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-06-17 22:42 +0100
  Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-17 23:14 +0100
    Re: Bloody football! Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-06-18 06:10 +0000
      Re: Bloody football! liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-06-18 09:46 +0100
        Re: Bloody football! Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-06-18 18:54 +0100
          Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-18 20:36 +0100
            Re: Bloody football! Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-06-19 09:18 +0100
  Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-18 08:03 +0100
  Re: Bloody football! jon <reading.mostly@crap.org> - 2026-06-25 01:24 +0000
    Re: Bloody football! NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-06-25 14:12 +0100
      Re: Bloody football! Old John <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2026-06-25 15:31 +0000
      Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-25 20:45 +0100
        Re: Bloody football! Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-06-26 08:12 +0100
          Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-26 12:11 +0100
            Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-26 19:21 +0100
              Re: Bloody football! Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-06-27 09:49 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-27 20:50 +0100
            Re: Bloody football! Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> - 2026-06-27 12:07 +0100
              Re: Bloody football! John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-27 15:34 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-27 20:58 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-27 23:37 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-28 01:26 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-28 11:20 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-28 12:50 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-28 13:41 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-28 14:13 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-06-28 13:26 +0000
                Re: Bloody football! NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-06-29 13:22 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-06-29 12:34 +0000
                Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-29 14:41 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! NY <me@privacy.net> - 2026-06-29 18:48 +0100
        Re: Bloody football! Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2026-06-28 10:55 +0000
          Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-28 12:56 +0100
            Re: Bloody football! John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-28 14:00 +0100
              Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-28 14:20 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-28 15:59 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-06-28 18:36 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-28 21:46 +0100
              Re: Bloody football! JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-06-28 16:10 +0100
                Re: Bloody football! John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-28 16:17 +0100

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