09-07-2023, 12:24 PM
It's ridiculous London is sent to bed at 11pm. I do think Fri/Sat should be permitted to go to Midnight.
Ideally they'd now have a daytime session and evening session on the show courts starting at 7pm, but given how matches have gone this week even if they started at 11am with two matches some days they would have run past 7pm.
I'd probably say next year they should schedule live coverage 7-10pm on BBC1 and Today at Wimbledon at 10pm on BBC3 or 4, with a later repeat on BBC1 or 2.
Ideally they'd now have a daytime session and evening session on the show courts starting at 7pm, but given how matches have gone this week even if they started at 11am with two matches some days they would have run past 7pm.
(08-07-2023, 10:16 PM)Andrew Wrote: It seems that the change of format of Today at Wimbledon this year has solved one problem (the fact it hardly ever used to air) but has created other problemsI think an hour is long enough especially if after the news. See The Sun etc. had their knives out for the new format cutting all the chatter etc. from it despite criticising in previous year (noteably the Wimbledon 2Day year) for not having enough highlights and too much waffle.
Plan C is the one often suggested here, 10:35 on BBC One. At one time having even more Wimbledon coverage on BBC One leaving room for barely anything else would have caused complaints, but now with iPlayer being the main focus they don’t really care about that, and there is little of note after 10:35 anyway
I’d air it at that time, make it live, extend it to Midnight so they can fit in all the highlights plus interviews, analysis and a bit of fun, the same sort of format that ‘Today at the Games’ has
I'd probably say next year they should schedule live coverage 7-10pm on BBC1 and Today at Wimbledon at 10pm on BBC3 or 4, with a later repeat on BBC1 or 2.