to think that the BBC should schedule repeats after live sports?

[darkfever]

I'm cross. And disappointed.

I wanted to watch the last episode of The Men Who Made Us Fat, and it's not on because Wimbledon has overrun.

We all know that live sporting events like tennis can take longer than estimated.
Why can't the BBC schedule repeats of Dad's Army or something else that they've shown a hundred times before after the tennis, instead of a new programme that's never been on TV before?

(goes off and sulks in a corner)

I too was waiting for that. No idea when it will be on next then??

Because people would moan about it, that schedule time was being wasted because of sport.

iplayer

Just turned over to watch Mock the Week and that has been moved til Sunday.
Fed up of nothing but sport on TV.

Its not on iplayer yet as its not gone out "live" yet. am seriously pissed off here. Fricken Wimbledon, its been on all sodding day.

It's not on iPlayer, I've just looked there

No info I can find on when it will be shown either.

And the BBC frequently show repeats anyway. It's no more a waste of scheduling time than not showing a programme because the sports have overrun.

I don't understand why the sports doesn't move on to the red button if it is longer than it's meant to be.

Its overrun two programmes now. Is there anyneed in this day and age with things like the red button and iplayer to muck up TV schedules for sport?

Same here, FFS.

Do you honestly think the BBC were going to take that match off the air before it had finished?

wait till sunday
the same football match
the same time
on both channels

I think the BBC shoukd use the Red Button for overrunning live sport.

This wasn't an option before the digital switchover was completed, but now it is I really don't see why they cannot do so.

JosephineCD, No, I don't think the BBC would take the match off the air given that they never have taken matches off the air before. It's not unusual for tennis to overrun.

That's why I think that they should schedule repeats after sport. It's less annoying if a repeat of Coast is cancelled. I bet the bit of Coast on BBC2 right now is a repeat.

When I put BBC on at 9pm though, it was a break. A perfect opportunity to move it to the Red Button option.

Or just to scrap it completely.

And as for Sunday night, how fricken stupid. Are we going to have this with the olympics too? Oh no, thats been shunted to the Red Button for years.

Yes but what if the sport doesn't overrun? People will just be moaning about repeats.

Mock the week is a taped programme. Even one of the "stars" that is on it tonight didn't think the tennis should be taken off the air to show it.

The digital switchover isn't complete yet that's why they can't use the red button.

Lots of people like sport, they are also licence fee payers and generally there are a lot more non-sport programmes on than sport, so YABU.

I'm so annoyed about this, I had set it to record so dh and I could watch it at 10.

And it would be for fucking Wimbledon I hate Wimbledon more than any other sporting event.

YABU if you are lumping all sports together.

Yes, there is loads of football around atm (but then again loads of people love it)

And tennis enthusiasts are in many cases a different group of people from football fans. I can take or leave football on TV, but love Wimbledon fortnight and this was an amazing match; absolutely riveting.

Maybe you should try getting interested in tennis

Me too. I was looking forward to it.

Obviously they shouldn't stop showing the match halfway through, but agree with OP that assuming it always bloody well over-runs then put something that doesn't really matter on afterwards.

I don't know why ITV are bothering to show the football because won't everyone watch the BBC version?

I don't like football, tennis or any of the other sports the BBC choose to fund but I do enjoy British Touring Car but that is bunged on ITV4.

BBC coverage on a number of events recently has declined so badly that I now choose the ITV version whenever there is a choice.

I'd overlooked that there were still two more areas to switch - my apologies.

It will all be done later this year though, and then the Red Button must surely be the answer.

I was going to say YANBU - the BBC should not show shitty, boring, pointless sport at all so the question wouldn't arise.

But as it's Wimbledon YABVU. The only sporting event of the year worth bothering with IMHO.

Apart from for people who can't work the red button!

MIL loves Wimbledon, she is also in her 80s and starting to suffer from memory loss. I don't think she could be taught to change watching the game by pressing the red button - I'm not even sure she has registered any channels beyond the main 4.