Originally Posted by Darren Lethem:
“ITV Covering the UK Open Darts from next week
Matt Smith hosting as usual but a change in commentary. John Rawling is away at the Winter Paralympics so Jim Proudfoot is joining Stuart Pyke, Alan Warriner-Little and Chris Mason.”
“ITV Covering the UK Open Darts from next week
Matt Smith hosting as usual but a change in commentary. John Rawling is away at the Winter Paralympics so Jim Proudfoot is joining Stuart Pyke, Alan Warriner-Little and Chris Mason.”
It will be interesting to see how ITV4 handle things on Saturday, as presumably Jim Proudfoot won't be available on that day as he will be commentating on Premier League football for Absolute Radio. I don't think this is much in doubt, seeing as Jim has put his longstanding Absolute Radio commitments ahead of his darts commentary work at both of the last two BDO World Championships, with John Gwynne and Nigel Pearson also regularly prioritising their Saturday afternoon football reporting work for Sky Sports and talkSPORT respectively over darts commentary work as well.
With Absolute's live commentary game being Crystal Palace v Southampton this Saturday, it wouldn't be conducive for Jim to get from the football to the evening session of the darts in Bolton either. So ITV4 should need a back-up commentator on the Saturday. Or might Chris Mason and Alan Warriner-Little lead a few of the commentaries themselves?



