Why are the BBC not covering the Para Olympics?

[Lady Whistledown]

what kind of question is that? ian beale is back FFS!

Has Den left Angie yet? Last time I saw it, he was giving her some kind of paperwork for a Christmas present.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Quite surprised, I must say, to see two guys on here admitting to watching EastEnders.

Personally, I can't bear it, I think it's badly acted, appallingly scripted, and entirely unrealistic. I thought in the main, it was women who watch soaps. Hence I'm surprised not only to find people openly admitting to liking it, but that they're male too.

Each to their own, I guess.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

their advert for the games coverage is quite superb.

We are looking at getting tickets for a day pass £15 to the park which gives you access to loads of events....I want to see our squaddies beating the shit out of the rest of the world in the wheelchair basketball..LOL

I think you'll be disappointed if you are expecting the GB wheelchair basketball team to be a team of squaddies. They're not.

Matt Byrne - British Paralympic Association

 

[Barn Door Billy]

No thanks. I cannot think of anything worse to have on prime-time TV. Good luck to them all, but not my idea of entertainment.

So East Enders, the x factor and all the other shit which consumes primetime is far better entertainment than the paras?

 

[Medwayseagull]

Quite surprised, I must say, to see two guys on here admitting to watching EastEnders.

Personally, I can't bear it, I think it's badly acted, appallingly scripted, and entirely unrealistic. I thought in the main, it was women who watch soaps. Hence I'm surprised not only to find people openly admitting to liking it, but that they're male too.

Each to their own, I guess.

How do you know if you don't watch it ? I agree it is unrealistic and often annoying but it is generally not badly acted, although there are a few exceptions, and I do watch it. Anyway I shall be watching the paralympics on TV and have tickets for the opening ceremony as well as athletic heats.

 

[Storer 68]

They are good tickets. Not going to be loads available mind so you'll need to move quickly when they come available.

As Britain's most successful Games in over a century reaches its final day ticket sales for the Paralympics have rocketed, with Locog reporting a significant increase in ticket demand in recent days. With 17 days to go until the Paralympic opening ceremony, more than 2.1 million tickets out of a total of 2.5million have been sold, with organisers hoping this could be the first sellout Paralympic Games in its 52-year history. The previous record of 1.8 million ticket sales at Beijing in 2008 has already been overtaken.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I think you'll be disappointed if you are expecting the GB wheelchair basketball team to be a team of squaddies. They're not.

Matt Byrne - British Paralympic Association

according to the interview yesterday on teh BBc there are two of them in the squad.

 

[SK1NT]

Quite surprised, I must say, to see two guys on here admitting to watching EastEnders.

Personally, I can't bear it, I think it's badly acted, appallingly scripted, and entirely unrealistic. I thought in the main, it was women who watch soaps. Hence I'm surprised not only to find people openly admitting to liking it, but that they're male too.

Each to their own, I guess.

yea i get that... but ive never watched anyother soaps and can honestly say never wtached an epsiode of hollyoaks, coronation st, brookside, emmerdale (stoopid accents) etc etc.. however eastenders was something i use to watch when i was a kid with my mum and its kinda stuck. I do cringe and think wtf is this shit but sometimes a bit of brain dead tv after a days work is good to unwind too. It doesnt take much thinking and i dont do reality TV.

However Para Olympics over Eastenders everytime...

 

[looney]

Pork Pie, if it doesn't appeal to you, fine, but don't patronise the rest of us by claiming our interest in watching stems from an attempt to be ultra PC.

For what it's worth, I think they're potentially going to be the most successful Paralympics ever. I know so many people who couldn't get tickets for the Olympics but have been so caught up in the atmosphere around them that they're buying Paralympic tickets just so be part of it.

There's nothing PC about cheering the likes of David Weir or Shelly Woods (wheelchair marathoners, since you ask). I'm looking forward to the games.

to be fair Pork pie was accused of fishing which can be seen as a typical PC response. I would guess the Pork Pie is in the majority and doesn't need to explain himself.


Personally not interested in either Olympics, the Para I just find bizzare but each to their own.

 

[Tomo1794]

Bring on the wheelchair rugby!

This! Looks like something really entertaining to watch. You haven't watched the programme Friday Night Lights by any chance?

 

[Questions]

I think you'll be disappointed if you are expecting the GB wheelchair basketball team to be a team of squaddies. They're not.

Matt Byrne - British Paralympic Association

Will we have the most technically developed wheelchairs ? And will the French moan about it.

 

[Lady Gull]

Im looking forward to the para Olympics for me they are truly inspirational to the younger generation - hope we do really well -

 

[Rookie]

This! Looks like something really entertaining to watch. You haven't watched the programme Friday Night Lights by any chance?

Haha I did and because of that did some more research on wheelchair rugby and I'm now the proud owner of 2 tickets to the gold medal final, chuffed

 

[Tomo1794]

Haha I did and because of that did some more research on wheelchair rugby and I'm now the proud owner of 2 tickets to the gold medal final, chuffed

Nice one, well jealous of that! I'm completely hooked on FNL now, just finished watching the fourth season online

 

[Westdene Wonder]

BBC went over the top with the amount of events shown so it was a relief that we are back to normal now, another four years will be soon enough, but Para games will be available on another channel for those who are interested.

 

[Wozza]

BBC went over the top with the amount of events shown so it was a relief that we are back to normal now, another four years will be soon enough, but Para games will be available on another channel for those who are interested.

Thanks for that.

 

[Bakero]

No! Not everyone is so ultra PC as to pretend they are actually interested in watching them in preference to normal TV. As I said, good luck to them all, but not my idea of prime-time entertainment on my TV. Clearly I am not the only one, or BBC would have been showing it. Somewhere like Channel 4 is far more appropriate.

You're right. They should put them on abnormal TV.

 

[goldstone]

They're not covering them because, at best, it is of interest to a very small percentage of the population.

 

[Hove Seagull]

They're not covering them because, at best, it is of interest to a very small percentage of the population.

Rubbish!
They have sold almost all of the 2.5 million spectator tickets already!
There is, clearly, a large amount of interest in the Paralympics.

 

[Giraffe]

My post was really that I am surprised that the coverage of the two events was not bundled to sell as one. But I guess they got more money by selling them separately.