Originally Posted by Darren Lethem:
“I very much doubt it. ITV want to get away from the C4 style of coverage now. C4 coverage wasn't succeeding at the end so why copy that ? They have gone for their own team ( mainly ) with just a sprinkling from 4. Those they have from 4 aren't ones who have been there for donkeys years like McGrath, Holt, Stevenson etc”
“I very much doubt it. ITV want to get away from the C4 style of coverage now. C4 coverage wasn't succeeding at the end so why copy that ? They have gone for their own team ( mainly ) with just a sprinkling from 4. Those they have from 4 aren't ones who have been there for donkeys years like McGrath, Holt, Stevenson etc”
The irony of that is that it's the longer-serving members of the team whom viewers still seemed to appreciate - it was the general change of style that had gone down badly. In Holt's and McGrath's cases, for instance, I don't think anybody would argue that their contribution to the IMG era had resulted in its reduced popularity.
Originally Posted by Psycho_Ned:
“Personally I think they got the tone wrong with the last 30 mins but there you go.
As nice as it was to see some old clips Channel 4 racing is ending not horse racing in general! You'd have watched that closing montage and thought it was the end of racing itself it had little to do with channel 4 racing. It should have for me covered the people who made channel 4 racing what it was for 32 years but it seemed the current production team wanted to forget anything prior to 2012 existed on that front.”
“Personally I think they got the tone wrong with the last 30 mins but there you go.
As nice as it was to see some old clips Channel 4 racing is ending not horse racing in general! You'd have watched that closing montage and thought it was the end of racing itself it had little to do with channel 4 racing. It should have for me covered the people who made channel 4 racing what it was for 32 years but it seemed the current production team wanted to forget anything prior to 2012 existed on that front.”
Totally agree. Whilst it might have been unrealistic to expect all the old faces to have agreed to return for a final farewell, some probably would have - and it was of no real detriment to IMG or C4, as their coverage was ending anyway.



