So, the show doesn’t have to go on after all. Most elite sport in the UK has been postponed because of coronavirus but there are two shows in 21st-century sport – one at the stadiums, one on the TV – and the latter is going to continue in the form of wall-to-wall nostalgia. There is endless airtime to be filled: Sky Sports have nine channels, BT Sport three, Eurosport two, and there are also the traditional sport slots on free-to-air TV.
The announcement that the BBC would replace Match of the Day with an old episode of Mrs Brown’s Boys achieved the impossible: it managed to unite social media. Admittedly the common reactions were contempt or disgust but it was still an achievement of sorts. Many appealed for the BBC to show a classic MotD episode instead; others suggested Test Card F would be a preferable alternative to the slapstick travails of Agnes Brown.
Written by Rob Smyth
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/15/tv-sport-mrs-browns-boys-surreal-saturday under the title “Sportless TV goes all nostalgic on a truly surreal Saturday | Rob Smyth”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
