NPR

Paddington Bear wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 10:02 pm Broad takes 500 test wickets and a female horse rider comes ahead of him. This country

Slick wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 10:05 pm Such a terrible show these days. Used to be the highlight of my year bit pretty much unwatchable now

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:02 am Why include "Personality" in the title?

Openside wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 10:16 pm

Slick wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 10:05 pm Such a terrible show these days. Used to be the highlight of my year bit pretty much unwatchable now

This

frodder wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:59 am I switched on to see Rick Astley plugging his latest release. A little strange

Woddy wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 12:08 pm It used to be an excellent and fairly serious review of all sports over the previous year, then it became a good review with some razmatazz and stardust sprinkled on for fun. Now it's all stardust with a sprinkling of review here and there, which makes it shallow and not worth watching. What then makes it completely unwatchable are the smug, schmaltzy takes on what should be genuinely great stories that are so overdone that you know the BBC has no soul in it. I would imagine that dealing with Cpt Tom Moore was in that category this year.

Such a shame.

Kawazaki wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:48 pm

Woddy wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 12:08 pm It used to be an excellent and fairly serious review of all sports over the previous year, then it became a good review with some razmatazz and stardust sprinkled on for fun. Now it's all stardust with a sprinkling of review here and there, which makes it shallow and not worth watching. What then makes it completely unwatchable are the smug, schmaltzy takes on what should be genuinely great stories that are so overdone that you know the BBC has no soul in it. I would imagine that dealing with Cpt Tom Moore was in that category this year.

Such a shame.

Gary Lineker ruins it for me. He personifies what is wrong with the BBC.

Hugo wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:28 am

Kawazaki wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:48 pm

Woddy wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 12:08 pm It used to be an excellent and fairly serious review of all sports over the previous year, then it became a good review with some razmatazz and stardust sprinkled on for fun. Now it's all stardust with a sprinkling of review here and there, which makes it shallow and not worth watching. What then makes it completely unwatchable are the smug, schmaltzy takes on what should be genuinely great stories that are so overdone that you know the BBC has no soul in it. I would imagine that dealing with Cpt Tom Moore was in that category this year.

Such a shame.

Gary Lineker ruins it for me. He personifies what is wrong with the BBC.

Yeah, Gary Lineker is obnoxious.

A world class striker on his day he has always been insufferably smug and projected this polished, golden boy reputation, it makes him unrelatable, at least to me. I always found the praise that he garnered for never having been booked rather silly- there's nothing especially abhorrent about being booked, it can often be indicative of full blooded effort, an honest mistake or a mistimed challenge.