Reading the full press release, it seems like it will be a balanced and thought through piece... should be a good programme

Eddie was great. "Up and under."

Agreed. Looks like it'll be a good watch.

RLW this month seemed to suggest this might be part of an RL night on BBC Four?

Don't worry...it won't be on until 4am anyway.....It's league

Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.

Quote: Bilko "Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.'" BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be. It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something. www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressr ... ture.shtml

Quote: Bilko "Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.'" BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be. It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something. www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressr ... ture.shtml

Be patient cock, rumour has it that you will be getting Sky in Wigin very soon.

Electicity would help first.

They should have renamed the JJB as The Pie Dome!

The problem is that when Norweb lay the cables during the day, the local night shift come and dig them up

Eddie Waring will of course be remembered for his catchphrases and jokey style, but he was by no means a bad commentator, and had a great love for the game. He and the BBC brought RL up into the national consciousness, and to blame the whole 'cloth cap and whippet' image thing on Waring is frankly nuts. Having got a golden opportunity of national terrestrial (and very popular in terms of viewers) coverage, it was up to the RFL to capitalise on it.

In a similar era, the Beeb also popularised an obscure sport called wrestling. Somebody picked up that opportunity and ran with it. Can't stand it myself but with a lot of spadework it became huge on both sides of the pond.

When I hear some of the whingeing on here about how Red Hall are contriving to get our sport ignored, it's obvious they had no experience of, or received education in, "How Rugby League Was Run Under Bill Fallowfield"

Sadly most people remember Eddie Waring as a senile caricature of himself. He was much more than that and in his younger days was quite an innovator and asset to RL. Will this come out in the program? His commentary on Don Fox's miss at Wembley is still a classic piece.