Like anyone who has watched English cricket in recent years, I'm aware that Saturday at Trent Bridge is fancy dress day. However, I was not prepared for Simon Hughes in drag on Channel 5's highlights package! What's going on when prime-time TV are showing bald geeks in frocks? Not that I've anything against cross dressing, but it came as something of a surprise. Has cricket reached new levels of homo-erotica today? If so, does that surpass the achievement of Sachin Tendulkar and his 11,000 test runs?
I assume it is to do with Channel 5's (apparent but unspoken) lowest-common-denominator approach to broadcasting. A day when England get spanked 'needs to be livened up' in order to keep the masses enthralled... though with my C5 reception it makes little difference. The days of the tv cameras lingering over beautiful and/or under-dressed women in the crowd have been replaced. I'm not sure it's an improvement.
Saturday, 28 July 2007
Channel 5 highlights - The Analyst
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Times are changing - and cricket is keeping up. Expect Boycs in fishnets sticking his car key into the cracks in the pitch on day 5... If England last that long!
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