Darts on Dave just finished at 0:10 and they've gone to HIGNFY that was scheduled at 22:00. Parks and Rec not on until 1:10 by the looks of things (they have tweeted to say it's already on UKTV Play).
Prerecorded continuity anno same as last night, no mention by darts presenters or on screen graphic that I saw, and no EPG update again. Lessons to be learnt.
A washout at Roland Garros today, could be interesting to see the catchup issues develop with more rain forecast over the coming days too.
In France, France 2 has been showing repeats of daytime programming along with 5 min filler shows. RTS Deux in Switzerland has been simulcasting their online news channel RTS Info.
Very brief breakdown on Channel 5 just now (19.15) during the cricket highlights. BT Tower color bars and tone, then a breakdown slide from 5. Back on within a minute.
Just wanted to say I was impressed by the coverage of the BDO Darts on Dave. It was refreshing to see some new faces on the coverage with the like of Nat Coombs and Charlie Webster and some coming over from covering PDC Darts in John Gwynne and Chris Mason and a lack of Tony Green helped improve the coverage big time. I sincerely hope Dave take coverage of the World Masters and Lakeside World Championships in January on top of this tournament.
ITV4 moved their Cycling highlights from 10:30 to 7:30, and TT documentary from 11:30 to 8:30 this morning, but forgot to update their continuity announcements which said the tennis starts at 12:30.
Darts on Dave just finished at 0:10 and they've gone to HIGNFY that was scheduled at 22:00. Parks and Rec not on until 1:10 by the looks of things (they have tweeted to say it's already on UKTV Play).
Yes, the new episodes of Parks and Recreation went out at 1.10 and 1.40, and they're not repeated either. It was probably right to stick with the darts but they probably shouldn't have scheduled one of their only new programmes of the week for after it. I wouldn't have gone to the trillionth HIGNFY repeat first either.
As you mention, there seemed to be no mention on the darts coverage as to when it might finish - after 11pm they just went straight into the next match, then John Rawling suggested Wolfie Adams would be on "around midnight", but that was about all you had in terms of what might be happening next.
I whacked a five hour manual record on to catch Parks and Recreation, anyway. You never got this on the BBC.
Also not everyone wants to sit through 2 hours of darts waiting for the next programme to start so EPG updates are essential.
(perhaps we should have separate Darts on Dave and Roland Garros threads and create new threads rather than burying stuff in The Sport Thread all the time)