Brilliantly cheesy final ITV montage. Love it how they take the piss outta themselves with the ad-break! Good stuff. :D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6HO7j2EC_dI
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Brilliantly cheesy final ITV montage. Love it how they take the piss outta themselves with the ad-break! Good stuff. :D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6HO7j2EC_dI
You liked it? Really? I thought it was rather lame. I was expecting something better really...
Still, I liked the fact that they acknowledged that it was their last GP.
Very good. Nice to see all the teams and drivers give them a good sign off.
Cheesy indeed, but good to see James Allen miming to "you can't break me", bless him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Malllen
Please let the door hit you on the way out. You won't be missed!
Don't forget Blundell, wot won't be missed neiver ;)
I thought they did an excellent job
Steve is an excellent commentator even as far back as the commentating on the Shell Oils British Rally Championship with the BBC
She's already got a job with Honda TV on their website (Louise that is not James :) )
Blundell's English isn't the best but I think his comments have been very good throughout the year and I wouldn't be unhappy if he worked for the BBC next year but I doubt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveA
Yeah I liked his little dig at the BBC getting coverage for next year, saying that it probably wouldn't be as good.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveA
Hmmm now let me think, possibly in HD, more than likely will get all practice sessions at least on the red button, no commercial breaks and best of all no cock or Blundell
ITV have done a decent job with their F1 coverage over the years. Still Ted Kravitz should be free to present the BTCC for 2009...*sigh*
They've done a solid job.
No James Allen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA :D :D
On the downside, if the Beeb bow to pressure there might not be anymore Martin Brundle which would be horrible, plus we might have to contend with DC commentating which would be my worst nightmare come true - aside from Allen returning, obviously :D
Glad I'm not the only one to have noticed that :p . A reference to all the flak he's gotten over the years, no doubt!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
Steve Rider will be missed, he is one of the most experienced and competent sports presenters around.
The rest, well, probably not - especially James Allen as I have stated on the other ITV thread. Lets hope that Mad Max doesnt get his own way on Brundle, but Eddie Jordan's name being thrown into the mix leads me to think we could have DC commentating and EJ analysing....
It's essential that Martin Brundle survives the move back to the BBC! Has anything been confirmed either way?
Out of the current team, if I had to choose a co-presenter for Martin Brundle it would have to be Ted Kravitz.
I didn't really like James Allen that much. I found his voice very irritating.
WOOOOO HOOOOO - after 12 years of bloody ad breaks ruining F1 we'll finally get to see the races in full. Good riddance ITV, no matter how much effort they put into thier coverage it doesnt matter as long as they had those bloody ad breaks, they ruined everything!
PS. I'm sure the BBC will do an excellent job, they are probably the world's finest broadcaster in all honesty.
I won't miss James "i'm such a cock that I even called my own son friggin Enzo" Allen to be honest, as for Louise and Ted, i'm utterly indifferent, I never found them to be particulary offensive. I will miss Mark "git orf me barra" Blundell for his horendous mudering of the English language in his analysis, it always added a gramatically poor comedy element to the coverage.
Have to say I didn't enjoy the My Chemical Toilet montage, was nothing on BBC's 1996 one (it's on YouTube I think).
OMG no more "Lift Me Up" either!! :D what pillock ever decided that would be suited to a motor racing intro?
"Lift me up , Lift me up, Higher than the wombats, now" .. What's that wasn't the lyrics? :confused:
No there hasnt, but its no secret that the FIA are turning a screw in the background regarding Brundle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Triumph
I hope they resist it. I pay my licence fee so that the BBC doesn't have to be subservient to vested interests.Quote:
Originally Posted by acescribe
I heard it as "Lift me up, Lift me up, I am a llama" :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I looked up the lyrics and they are thusly
I think our versions actually make more sense!Quote:
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
No more Mark Blundell, thank goodness. Hurrahh
Dammit, all these years I've been singing "Zip me up, zip me up, I wanna banana" :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Powered by Cosworth
No no no, it's always been "let me off, let me off, I am a llama" :p : I always felt the best of ITV's tunes was the second one (c.1999-2001) but looked it up on YouTube a while ago and it wasn't as good as I remember. Perhaps it just lacked something without the knowledge that a race would follow imminently.
As for the Brundle/FIA situation, the BBC's duty is first and foremost to its millions of licence fee payers, not to some old Paris-based gentleman with a sore arse and a hundred million in the bank. Hopefully all parties will remember that.