Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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i set up the opening ceremony on sky+ and see the coverage by channel 4 was poor and the end cut off
ist john snow against gary lineker and the bbc team ----- no contest
2nd when the competiors came in , two people we didnot know trying to tell us who was who in each team and one of the guys kept cutting the other one up by talking over him
then finally the recording stopped and never saw the flame lit ------------------- so what happened ?
did we have to change channels ? or did channel 4 workers decide we finish at 11.20pm and we are going home ?
Guest 735- Registered: 19 Dec 2011
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It was on Channel 4 until the end on my telly :-S
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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I put it on to record, but presume that as it over-ran the time that's why it cut it off and the end was missed.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It over-ran and finished about 12:15, so must be sky+ error
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Ron you are right about the commentary team on C4. basically these guys are not commentators and it only proved that its not as easy as it looks. They gave us no info at all..I hinted something like this this morning on our frontpage. The commentator was Krishnan Guru-Murthy plus a paralympian expert.
Guru-Murthy reads the news and does interviewing on the C4 news nightly at 7PM along with Jon Snow. He is quite good doing that but commentating was beyond him..he was half interviewing his co commentator, but not really telling us much of anything.
Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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found the lightening of flame on youtube and also look up beverley knight singing --- i am what i am with the excellent firework display also youtube for anyone else who recorded the programme last night
i would put channel 4 in the same bracket as g4s as far as the games are concerned
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I much preferred the Channel 4 production to the BBC style as I did not have to suffer their interminable waffle over everything. I received the basic knowledge I needed and the pictures did the rest.
The disabled marine who descended into the arena with the torch was amazing to see and then to pass it to a lady was in the 1948 games so she could light the flame.
My only complaint about both our Games openings as well as all the previous foreign ones is the time it takes the athletes to parade round which I find goes on for too long.
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Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Great Front page pic of last nights Paralympics, Luvit!
Good luck to them all, they are an inspiration to everyone
Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
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It was a pity the spoilt it all with adverts. I was hoping that as it was such a special occation that we were to be spared adverts,But how wrong can one be.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Watch the first part of the opening ceremony good pictures on the frontpage,but as said the adverts did spoil it rather, I think that the British team have already got in some medals.
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
- Posts: 468
Opening ceremony: commercials
Breakfast Show: boring studio, commercials and repeated clips
Events: commercials
I'm so glad I'm going to see some events live as I am slowly going off channel
Four!!
Keeps politics to myself
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,262
Me too Helen, really looking forward to seeing it live
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
courtesy of the telegraph.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Well sorry but I think it is all great best there has been and the V/BALL lastnight was out of this world it was against Germany and it had both my wife and myself shouting out,and jumping out of our own chairs,( My wife will not let me sit next to her on the same chair,because she says I mess about to much same in bed. " Me" messing about "Never"
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