The Premiership Reviews

You come in to watch The Premiership hoping to see your team on as The Featured Game but you have to watch the other games of the day first befor your most cherished team comes on. You have to watch the adverts as well, Match of the day (MOTD) never had any adverts, it was continuos viewing. Then ITV Came in and added 10 minutes to the show for ...  Read the complete review

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Right from the first time I heard of Match of the Day's imminent departure from our Saturday evening viewing schedule I felt greatly angered and resentful. Many thought it would bring about an golden era of pre-MOTD entertainment. It was old-fashioned some said, it hadn't changed in years others stated. As we sit here over 2 years later in ...  Read the complete review

I think ITV have done a cracking job with the Premiership coverage and have freshened it up nicely. The BBC sticking with that dullard Linekar and the dusty polite Brooking seem to be at the end of the line for originality and sharpness, sticking to the tried and tested around a winning product. An average salesman can flog great product. ...  Read the complete review

I remember the days when I use to come home late afternoon on a Saturday and have plenty of time to watch whatever I wanted before my favourite program; 'Match Of The Day' would start. Of course every footie fan now knows that MOTD is no more, but it has been replaced with ITV's 'The Premiership' presented by ex ...  Read the complete review

The Premiership is the new program on terrestrial television that is be the first to show Saturday's football highlights. Its predecessor, Match of the Day, of the BBC, was a very popular show, attracting many viewers. As sadly is the case in many things nowadays, money prevailed and ITV bought the rights, for over 100 million pounds. ...  Read the complete review

Before this season people used to enjoy sitting down on a Saturday night, to watch the day's action without any interruption. Now this can't be done. ITV has turned many people's lives upside down. Now the football has intervals s**t presenting and no added things. The BBC had the goal of the month and ITV have taken this. ITV have ...  Read the complete review

The first few weeks of this programme where a massive disapointment considering the hype and anticipation regarding both the football season and the programme itself. It was a decent idea to provide coverage at 7pm although this in the long term only was benefitial to kids who could not stay awake for the 10.30pm showing. The 7pm show lacked ...  Read the complete review

For those of you who are fans of football I hope you will agree with me that the Premiership has been one of the worst football shows ever to be put on the air. It begins with them playing some music by U2 in the background while showing some of the highlights of the day. Similar to Match of the Day. After showing the audience these ...  Read the complete review

In the summer of 2002 ITV bought the rights to show football highlights first. This was headline news, and ITV decided to give it a prime time slot, a bold, daring step, but one which was widely appreciated by younger viewers, who had previously missed out on Match of the Day, as it was shown too late at night. The Premiership starts with ...  Read the complete review

Two months in and ITV's attempt at prime time Saturday night football has failed miserably. Why? Firstly, the timing. Some have suggested that the target audience are out at that time. In my opinion, the majority are in fact still in, getting ready for their night out and would indeed watch it given some quality (see below). ...  Read the complete review

A lot has been made recently about the Premiership. The controversial show has been moved to a new 10:30 pm timeslot starting next Saturday after the 7pm timeslot after it failed to win sufficient viewers to justify it's primetime slot. Des Lynam's plan has bombed and all of a sudden, the vast sums of money ITV spent wrestling football highlights ...  Read the complete review

So far I have been reasonably impressed by The Premiership and its coverage of Saturday games. I love the theme tune; it’s almost good as the Match Of The Day one. The program analyses the matches in some detail. One thing I dislike about the programme is how they always show the Man U game last every week. They do this simply to keep ...  Read the complete review

When it was announced that ITV had bought/won the rights to the new highlights program for the premier league, everyone knew they had a tough job on their hands. Taking over from BBC1 and Match of the day, a program almost synonymous with Saturday nights and football, to be honest MOTD was THE football fans choice and gave a pretty good account of ...  Read the complete review

.Come the early nineties mainstream sport like football was increasingly becoming more non-accessible to viewers of terrestrial television. This is mainly thanks to Sky and their vast pots of money. The BBC had the rights to show highlights to the premiership and the return of Match Of The Day was championed, it was a good programme but on quite ...  Read the complete review

ITV have nabbed footy from the traditional stuffy BBC on all fronts. The more commercial outfit though are reliant on commercials and cheap shiny jackets not the license fee, so we are quickly over run with commercials and gimmicks. At least it gives guys and some girls time to get ready for a night out between ads. Des the first to ...  Read the complete review

When ITV premiered its new sports programme 'The Premiership', the flagship of their new Saturday prime-time evening schedule and the replacement for BBC's Match Of The Day, I was determined to remain as open minded as possible. After viewing the debut edition of 'The Premiership' on the first Saturday of the season I ...  Read the complete review

When BBC lost the rights to cover Premiership football from the start of this season, there was a lot of apprehension among followers of TV football at the thought of exactly what ITV would do to the regular Saturday night diet of Dad when he got back from the pub. But no, said ITV, we’re going to do this right, you can trust us, ...  Read the complete review

Dearest Des, I just thought I'd drop you a few lines to let you know how the dave27 clan are doing these days and enjoying life in the Deep North. Obviously as a nancy Southerner from Ireland, the grim lands in the Dirty North of the country are a mystery to you, but we're having a high old time. While I'm on, I ...  Read the complete review

In a fit of rage normally associated with when someone tries to take money away from me, I sit and stare at the telly. Once more, money has triumphed over quality and we, the viewers, have no say in the matter. What is this that has brought the rage upon the normally placid and laid back Duke? Well, it’s ITV’s The Premiership. ...  Read the complete review