Great Programming On Nine This Week

[Timmy Downawell]

...if you like swimming.

Swimming is on for seven days in a row, and every single ep of their usual fodder is a repeat (that's CSI:NY, CSI:Miami, Cold Case, Without a Trace and two more CSIs on Sunday), plus on Friday night they totally outdo themselves with TWELVE hours of sport (swimming, rugby league and cricket), breaking only briefly at 3am for that all important episode of Entertainment Tonight.

I'm not sure what's with all the repeats tho, unless they don't want to waste new eps in such unpredictable time slots?

[keiron]

...if you like swimming.

Swimming is on for seven days in a row, and every single ep of their usual fodder is a repeat (that's CSI:NY, CSI:Miami, Cold Case, Without a Trace and two more CSIs on Sunday), plus on Friday night they totally outdo themselves with TWELVE hours of sport (swimming, rugby league and cricket), breaking only briefly at 3am for that all important episode of Entertainment Tonight.

I'm not sure what's with all the repeats tho, unless they don't want to waste new eps in such unpredictable time slots?

Swimming isn't a real sport cos there's no ball. As for the repeats of everything else...get used to it cos we're heading into the Easter ratings desert where none of the networks can be bothered showing first run stuff:(

[Neon Kitten]

Swimming is on for seven days in a row, and every single ep of their usual fodder is a repeat

Oh come on, 1 Vs 100 is ***all new*** :lol

Oh, and Keiron, that sport/ball "rule" is ludicrous.

[Timmy Downawell]

...get used to it cos we're heading into the Easter ratings desert where none of the networks can be bothered showing first run stuff:(

Ugh, I hadn't even thought of that.

[keiron]

Oh come on, 1 Vs 100 is ***all new*** :lol

Oh, and Keiron, that sport/ball "rule" is ludicrous.

OK I'll extend the "sport" definition to anything with a ball (footy, cricket, golf, tennis, etc) and anything where the competitors can be injured and/or killed (F1, MotoGP, skydiving/base jumping,etc).....therefore swimming is only a sport if there's sharks in the water!!!

[boric]

OK I'll extend the "sport" definition to anything with a ball (footy, cricket, golf, tennis, etc) and anything where the competitors can be injured and/or killed (F1, MotoGP, skydiving/base jumping,etc).....therefore swimming is only a sport if there's sharks in the water!!!

I'm assuming the water polo is being broadcast as part of the "swimming"? I know it is being played but don't know if it's being broadcast. It has a ball and violence and therefore fits your definition.

[keiron]

I'm assuming the water polo is being broadcast as part of the "swimming"? I know it is being played but don't know if it's being broadcast. It has a ball and violence and therefore fits your definition.

Yep

ball+violence=sport

as for swimming....waterpolo players spend more time treading water than swimming, therefore it falls out of the swimming category and into the watersports.

[Timmy Downawell]

I'm assuming the water polo is being broadcast as part of the "swimming"? I know it is being played but don't know if it's being broadcast. It has a ball and violence and therefore fits your definition.

It has more than one ball, at least in the men's... maybe in the women's as well, come to think of it. Sorry, having a Roy & HG flashback.

[Steve C]

It has more than one ball, at least in the men's... maybe in the women's as well, come to think of it.

I thought drug testing was meant to have made that sort of thing impossible these days... I'm not sure who told those Chinese swimmers they looked like they'd been hitting the 'roids a little hard though. Tell 'em and run I guess...

[Eth Nick]

I hate swimming...so i'll be watching just as much Nine as usual.