Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

[Jon]

These cut away interviews are pretty unnecessary

Wasn’t a fan at first, but think it’s making it drag less, since the parade would presumably still take the same amount of time.

[Andrew]

Dua Lipa?? Bloody hell, this playlist is good

It was doing so well until Harry Styles

Harry Styles is apparently from the West Midlands

[Josh]

Looks like there's some issues at the back with Jamaica getting into the main congregation.

[Andrew]

Radio times has done what it does for the olympics but agree it looks messy and hard to use also multiple covers this week England goes for gold, wales go for gold, scotland goes for gold and Northern Ireland goes for gold, if there were issues for the Channel Islands and Isle of Man this pattern would continue

Did they not do seperate covers for the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands?

If they didn’t, they probably should have done. They’ll know how many they send to those islands, they could have done a small print run

[harshy]

I am guessing those interviews are world feeds ones even got branded mics.

[Brekkie]

They could do with the video messages at least being split screens. Really annoying to cut away from the current Welsh team to hear from an athlete of a couple of decades ago.

Who is the male presenter of these interviews. Seema an increasingly familar face across a range of sports now but don't recognise him from anything.

[James2001]

The Red Arrows flew literally right above our house at 8PM (right at the same time as we were stepping outside the front door as well), which scared the hell out of me, as I wasn't expecting it and they were very low and very loud!

[Neil Jones]

It was doing so well until Harry Styles

Harry Styles is apparently from the West Midlands

He's actually from Redditch which is 15m or so south of Birmingham. Which is not the West Midlands in its modern form. It might have been decades ago when it was one big shire but now...

[aaron_scotland]

Wonder if this will overrun, still got Duran Duran to go?

[Inspector Sands]

Harry Styles is apparently from the West Midlands

He's actually from Redditch which is 15m or so south of Birmingham.  Which is not the West Midlands in its modern form.  It might have been decades ago when it was one big shire but now...

Not West Midlands the county, but it's in West Midlands the region

[Josh]

Does anyone know if we're on time or running behind/ahead?

[RhysJR]

They could do with the video messages at least being split screens.  Really annoying to cut away from the current Welsh team to hear from an athlete of a couple of decades ago.

Who is the male presenter of these interviews.  Seema an increasingly familar face across a range of sports now but don't recognise him from anything.

Qasa Alom

I'd never heard of him until Clare credited him for one of the reports in the build-up.

https://twitter.com/QasaAlom/status/1552...VSA-tC8jzA



Does anyone know if anything bar the ceremonies is in UHD?

[The_IT_Technician]

He's actually from Redditch which is 15m or so south of Birmingham.  Which is not the West Midlands in its modern form.  It might have been decades ago when it was one big shire but now...

Not West Midlands the county, but it's in West Midlands the region

Historically & from my understanding Redditch was designated a new town, in the 1960s, to cater for the population increase across the Birmingham, and Black Country conurbation.

[Brekkie]

Considering how off key they seem to be hoping Duran Duran are only doing a couple of songs. The weak point of the night in an otherwise pretty decent evening.

[aaron_scotland]

Duran Duran are perfect for this really, fantastic finale