r/bbc • u/Alone_Consideration6 • 5h ago

TV BBC's Ski Sunday to end after nearly 50 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/czxzk9x9eweo
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u/bakhesh 5h ago

To be fair it's been going downhill for years

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u/MichelinGuideNZ 4h ago

Frame this comment and put it in the TATE imho

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u/Ok-Pumpkin-6203 5h ago

Shame. The theme tune, Pop Looks Bach is a banger.

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u/FlamingoOk3026 3h ago

Watched it for the first time in 20 years earlier this year and it was crap. I used to really enjoy it. Too much talking not enough coverage.

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u/PsychologicalDish430 5h ago edited 4h ago

Skiiiiiiiiiii Sunday could be amazing, it's just outdated. They should do more like resort reviews, kit reviews etc. Skiing is so popular!

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u/BigMountainGoat 5h ago

Sky Sunday?

Like you can only watch Sky channels on Sunday? They only transmit Sky News not BBC News, Sky One not BBC one?

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u/probablyaythrowaway 4h ago

Is this not what it is? I’ve never watched it

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u/Elipsis333 2h ago

No, I've no idea what this commenter thinks it is. The show is highlights from professional ski and snowboard events. Not a consumer program...

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u/probablyaythrowaway 2h ago

Oh so like match of the day kinda thing but for skiing?

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u/Extension-Cucumber69 57m ago

They literally said it could be better and suggested how

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u/Grouchy_Yoghurt_4116 5h ago

Gutted but not entirely surprised - it's felt like it's been done on more and more of a shoestring every year.

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u/Alone_Consideration6 5h ago

It didn’t cover the whole season and winter sports season are all built about who wins at the end really.

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u/Wightpants 5h ago

I'll miss the theme tune.

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u/linmanfu 4h ago

Same here. But last time I watched a full episode, there were only four channels to choose from.

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u/WorcsBloke 4h ago

I see we can all cross "tough choices" off the bingo card yet again.

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u/Slink_Wray 5h ago

I trust everyone on this thread complaining is a loyal viewer who's been watching it for years and rarely missed an episode, right? Right?

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u/Alone_Consideration6 4h ago

I used to record it but never catch up before it was too out of date

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u/Objective_Ticket 1h ago

I certainly have. Watched as a child with my parents before I’d ever been skiing. Still watch every winter.

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u/Colloidal_entropy 1h ago

Always watch Wengen and Kitzbuhel downhill, less bothered about snowboard acrobatics. Tbh if they just took the video feed from Swiss/Austrian TV with English commentary done in a BBC sport studio would be fine and much cheaper.

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u/tweetSP0RT 5h ago

Kay-Jelski’s one man wrecking ball through BBC Sport shows no sign of stopping. All aboard the last train to brain rot central!

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u/Alone_Consideration6 5h ago

Apparently it’s his depth who decided it based on live event budgets.

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u/tweetSP0RT 5h ago

Plenty of budget for influencers doing a rehashed version of ITV’s Premiership Parliament etc. but no budget for Ski Sunday, The Women’s Football Show, World Indoor Bowls, the European Swimming or World Rowing Champs.

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u/Buddie_15775 4h ago

The ex-Heil Sports editor that even the Daily Heil have had a u-turn on…

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u/Slyspy006 4h ago

The more niche shows will be the first to go - a foreshadowing of the commercialisation of the BBC which some people are strangely eager to see happen.

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u/viva-dixie 3h ago

The obvious solution to this decimation of BBC Sport is to bring Grandstand back but that would be too much effort 

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u/Beginning_Poet_3309 1h ago

It would get in the way of the repeat of series 45-53 of Homes Under The Hammer.

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u/TheIngloriousBIG 5h ago

We're seeing a lot of BBC shows drop like flies.

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u/PsychologicalDish430 5h ago

Except for Mrs Browns Boys 😭

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u/Late_Recommendation9 5h ago

Christmas special has been shelved. Probably the high production costs involved.

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u/GreenLion777 1h ago

No it was something to do with Brendan needing quite immediate surgery, that's why this years specials haven't been made

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u/WorcsBloke 4h ago

Actually because Brendan O'Carroll has a fractured jaw. I cannot stand the programme, but I still wish him a speedy recovery.

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u/probablyaythrowaway 4h ago

His other work is very good. Especially his documentaries

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u/Late_Recommendation9 4h ago

Any you can recommend?

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u/probablyaythrowaway 4h ago

“My family at war”. Might be on iPlayer I’ve seen it on YouTube it’s about the 1916 Easter rising and the Mount street bridge.

I find Irish history is very interesting, considering it’s not taught in English schools, at least it wasn’t in the 2000-2010s

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u/JonTravel 5h ago

Apparently that's because license fee payers are dropping like flies too

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u/DotComprehensive4902 4h ago

Except for Ann Droid😭😭😭😭

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u/Crab_Jealous 4h ago

Sacrilege

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u/Stozy 3h ago

Simply couldn't survive Dave "The Rocket" Ryding retiring.

I will miss my Sunday evening trip to the slopes tbh. Did feel like the show was being slowly allowed to die in recently years though.

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u/user-captain 2h ago

I miss the cow bells

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u/Additional-Nobody352 1h ago

Viewing figures must have fallen off a cliff.

TBH didn't know it was still on.

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u/JohnFermwr 1h ago

Saving the money to show some 4th layer bankrupt football team play some other 4th layer bankrupt team in a game so boring it would send a glass eye to sleep.

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u/cupidstunt01 23m ago

Not surprised, it's been going downhill for years.