Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:42 pm
craigizzard
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Bilko wrote:Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.
BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be.
It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something.
Bilko wrote:Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.
BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be.
It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something.
Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:17 am
chissitt
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Bilko wrote:Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.
Be patient cock, rumour has it that you will be getting Sky in Wigin very soon.
Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:37 am
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Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:49 am
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Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:45 am
Ferocious Aardvark
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Eddie Waring will of course be remembered for his catchphrases and jokey style, but he was by no means a bad commentator, and had a great love for the game. He and the BBC brought RL up into the national consciousness, and to blame the whole 'cloth cap and whippet' image thing on Waring is frankly nuts. Having got a golden opportunity of national terrestrial (and very popular in terms of viewers) coverage, it was up to the RFL to capitalise on it.
In a similar era, the Beeb also popularised an obscure sport called wrestling. Somebody picked up that opportunity and ran with it. Can't stand it myself but with a lot of spadework it became huge on both sides of the pond.
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Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:19 am
cod'ead
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Eddie Waring will of course be remembered for his catchphrases and jokey style, but he was by no means a bad commentator, and had a great love for the game. He and the BBC brought RL up into the national consciousness, and to blame the whole 'cloth cap and whippet' image thing on Waring is frankly nuts. Having got a golden opportunity of national terrestrial (and very popular in terms of viewers) coverage, it was up to the RFL to capitalise on it.
In a similar era, the Beeb also popularised an obscure sport called wrestling. Somebody picked up that opportunity and ran with it. Can't stand it myself but with a lot of spadework it became huge on both sides of the pond.
When I hear some of the whingeing on here about how Red Hall are contriving to get our sport ignored, it's obvious they had no experience of, or received education in, "How Rugby League Was Run Under Bill Fallowfield"
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Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:28 am
Erik the not red
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Sadly most people remember Eddie Waring as a senile caricature of himself. He was much more than that and in his younger days was quite an innovator and asset to RL. Will this come out in the program? His commentary on Don Fox's miss at Wembley is still a classic piece.
Post subject: Re: Eddie Waring Documentary to air on BBC Four
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:28 pm
AdmiralHanson
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Erik the not red wrote:Sadly most people remember Eddie Waring as a senile caricature of himself. He was much more than that and in his younger days was quite an innovator and asset to RL. Will this come out in the program? His commentary on Don Fox's miss at Wembley is still a classic piece.
Yeah, if you watch some of the Waring stuff from the late 60s / early 70s (about the time when most homes finally got a telly of some sort) he was streets ahead of the garbage the Ray French churned out for years.
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