It’s the program itself that’s the issue now, if you recall it was always called “Sports Review of the Year”, not “Sports Personality….”. And that’s why it was so good, it was a genuine review of the sporting year with an award tacked onto the end of it. I may have fast forwarded the horse racing roundup but at least you got to see a spectrum of performances across a variety of sports.
All it is now is 2 hours where they spend 10 minutes per nominee (and not actually showing properly what they did, just some arty piece about how hard they’ve worked blah-blah) and 20 minutes giving awards. How much actual sport was shown last night? As a percentage of the show it must be buttons.
Shame as it was always one of the must watch December programs for me, I think this will be the last year that I do….