It was originally scheduled for Sunday, moved to Saturday when the World Cup coverage was finalised, and then got bumped off for the extra time and penalties, so it's back to tomorrow now although not showing on the EPG yet.
Tomorrow 21:10 just been confirmed by BBC One continuity
IMO football, or any other sport to be fair, should get priority over other programming, especially news! I think it is slightly more important to know whether another war is about to break out, than it is to witness an idiotic football player constantly biting people.
Thing is both BBC and ITV are now multi-channel broadcasters and they could easily change schedules tto put "normal" programming on their other channels - in ITV's case they could easily move their normal evening schedules to ITV3 whilst ITV Encore could benefit from taking onboard ITV3's normal output - which is virtually the same anyway. Whilst BBC has the privilege of BBC2, 3 or 4 - hence this gives rise to the fact that losing BBC3 would be very detrimental - which could host the "normal" programming. BBC4 could easily take onboard Glastonbury and other music festivals (as it is basically part of their remit as it can be classed as "arts") whilst BBC3 takes on extra sport and/or "normal" programming when it is displaced from either BBC1 or 2, as lets be fair BBC3 do tend to show repeats between 7 and 9 and more often at 9 they show repeats as well!
To be fair, though this happens every 4 years and it is badly managed by the sporting authorities - as it basically takes about 12 weeks of the television schedules for these prime events (this year includes Winter Olympic, World Cup and Commonwealth Games - whilst next year there is nothing and year after only the Summer Olympics and year after that nothing again) - and that is not forgetting the annual events such as Wimbledon, Formula One and Tour De France. Why can't the sporting authorities work together so that only one major 4-yearrly tournament happens in different years rather than grouped, like this year!!!
I wouldn't even displace to other channels, I'd be a sorta killjoy and only offer the broadcast rights to broadcasters with dedicated sports channels, who can actually fit it into their schedules.
Thing is both BBC and ITV are now multi-channel broadcasters and they could easily change schedules tto put "normal" programming on their other channels - in ITV's case they could easily move their normal evening schedules to ITV3 whilst ITV Encore could benefit from taking onboard ITV3's normal output - which is virtually the same anyway. Whilst BBC has the privilege of BBC2, 3 or 4 - hence this gives rise to the fact that losing BBC3 would be very detrimental - which could host the "normal" programming. BBC4 could easily take onboard Glastonbury and other music festivals (as it is basically part of their remit as it can be classed as "arts") whilst BBC3 takes on extra sport and/or "normal" programming when it is displaced from either BBC1 or 2, as lets be fair BBC3 do tend to show repeats between 7 and 9 and more often at 9 they show repeats as well!
To be fair, though this happens every 4 years and it is badly managed by the sporting authorities - as it basically takes about 12 weeks of the television schedules for these prime events (this year includes Winter Olympic, World Cup and Commonwealth Games - whilst next year there is nothing and year after only the Summer Olympics and year after that nothing again) - and that is not forgetting the annual events such as Wimbledon, Formula One and Tour De France. Why can't the sporting authorities work together so that only one major 4-yearrly tournament happens in different years rather than grouped, like this year!!!
They already do. In the non-Olympic/World Cup/Commonwealth years you'll have the World Athletics Championships, the Rugby and Cricket World Cups and (internationally) the African Nations Cup and the Pan-American Games.
The big non-yearly events never clash with each other. The only clashes are with the annual events, and really the only significant clash which has a major effect on television schedules is the World Cup/European Championships and Wimbledon. And there will be less of an overlap from next year when Wimbledon moves back a week, and therefore will only clash with the very latter stages of the football competitions when less matches are taking place.
I wouldn't even displace to other channels, I'd be a sorta killjoy and only offer the broadcast rights to broadcasters with dedicated sports channels, who can actually fit it into their schedules.
Sepp Blatter was considering doing the same as he's a massive Emmerdale fan.