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ad_tigger wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:54 pm I have no time at all for Pugatch though and the set looks like a general election leaders debate. I was expecting Maggie Alphonsi to accuse O'Driscoll of taking our industrial heartlands for granted. Also, Pugatch has no place in rugby broadcasting, he looks like a motion capture performance by Andy Serkis played over an avatar of a bored double glazing salesman who wants a career change

ad_tigger wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:54 pm I have no time at all for Pugatch though and the set looks like a general election leaders debate. I was expecting Maggie Alphonsi to accuse O'Driscoll of taking our industrial heartlands for granted. Also, Pugatch has no place in rugby broadcasting, he looks like a motion capture performance by Andy Serkis played over an avatar of a bored double glazing salesman who wants a career change

BaldiePete wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:03 pm Could the commentator please manage to get through a few minutes without mentioning an English club or the ground they play at?

Puja wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:25 pm Entertaining article ripping it to pieces here: https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2F ... hip-debate

"For the causal viewer tuning in at primetime on Saturday, a slot where ITV viewers are accustomed to seeing Ant and Dec or a dog that can say sausages, we instead got four bloody good blokes in navy blazers/suits and open-necked shirts chatting stiffly about focus, clarity and visualising. If you want to know what “LinkedIn: The TV Series” would feel like, here you go.

Sir Clive, in particular, looks at risk of sharing some blue-sky views vis-a-vis corporate synergy at any moment. They stood behind podiums in a horseshoe formation, fostering the most unwelcome sense that we were witnessing a Tory leadership contest, and given the revolving door in that office, who is to say that Sir Clive or Big Loz cannot be there or thereabouts when Rishi’s time comes to spend more time with his wife’s bazillions?"

Puja

Puja wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:25 pm Entertaining article ripping it to pieces here: https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2F ... hip-debate

"For the causal viewer tuning in at primetime on Saturday, a slot where ITV viewers are accustomed to seeing Ant and Dec or a dog that can say sausages, we instead got four bloody good blokes in navy blazers/suits and open-necked shirts chatting stiffly about focus, clarity and visualising. If you want to know what “LinkedIn: The TV Series” would feel like, here you go.

Sir Clive, in particular, looks at risk of sharing some blue-sky views vis-a-vis corporate synergy at any moment. They stood behind podiums in a horseshoe formation, fostering the most unwelcome sense that we were witnessing a Tory leadership contest, and given the revolving door in that office, who is to say that Sir Clive or Big Loz cannot be there or thereabouts when Rishi’s time comes to spend more time with his wife’s bazillions?"

Puja

Son of Mathonwy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:19 pm

Puja wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:25 pm Entertaining article ripping it to pieces here: https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2F ... hip-debate

"For the causal viewer tuning in at primetime on Saturday, a slot where ITV viewers are accustomed to seeing Ant and Dec or a dog that can say sausages, we instead got four bloody good blokes in navy blazers/suits and open-necked shirts chatting stiffly about focus, clarity and visualising. If you want to know what “LinkedIn: The TV Series” would feel like, here you go.

Sir Clive, in particular, looks at risk of sharing some blue-sky views vis-a-vis corporate synergy at any moment. They stood behind podiums in a horseshoe formation, fostering the most unwelcome sense that we were witnessing a Tory leadership contest, and given the revolving door in that office, who is to say that Sir Clive or Big Loz cannot be there or thereabouts when Rishi’s time comes to spend more time with his wife’s bazillions?"

Puja

Jeez, give them chairs. Question Time is far more relaxed.

Sourdust wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:23 pm I think it's fair to say that if you'd never seen ITV coverage of previous RWCs, you'd think this was laughably bad. But it's actually a bit better than usual.

BTW I know this isn't specifically ITVs fault, but WTF with these shallow-depth-of-field cameras on the touchline, and now also on players after scores? Maybe it's just me, but the "Tilt-Shift" effect completely takes me out of the match atmos - something ITV coverage in particular could do without.

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:30 am
This is pissing me off too. Is this somebody's idea of making rugby look "cinematic"? As if that's a thing that needs to happen. Given they are so far from the crowd/background anyway it just makes them look like they're super-imposed or are dialling in on Teams with a blurred background.