Only an Excuse

[Renfrew_Hibby]

George Sq. probably closed tonight cos the locals canny handle a bevvy.

[brianmc]

I haven't watched it since the McAvennie patter was actually topical!

*Not this millennium

[wallpaperman]

It might be so crap, that the hipster purveyors of opinion will decide it’s good.

[NAE NOOKIE]

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They will switch over, from a Glasgow studio, to Edinburgh at about 5 to midnight then back again a few mins after the bells. Why on earth they ignore one of the worlds biggest New Year parties for a Glasgow studio is beyond me.

For the same reason that the BBC Scotland news is presented with the iconic world renowned backdrop of a big rusting crane over that boring view of Edinburgh from Calton hill. For the same reason that BBC Scotland flagship shows like River City and Still game are set in Glasgow and never Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Dundee. Even STV aren't immune allowing John Hannah to produce their version of Rebus with himself totally miscast in the title role, something even he admitted was a mistake ... wrong age, wrong shape, wrong accent.

TV in this country just cant see past its Glasgow centric love in ... for them Glasgow is Scotland, no wonder folk outside of Scotland get a shock when the meet a Scotsman or woman who doesn't sound like Billy Connolly.

[Keith_M]

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As this is your response to everything, could you be a bit more specific?

To be fair, it works for every subject he posts about


For once I agree with him

[Carheenlea]

When you see the offerings on Irish TV, Only an Excuse would actually improve the listings. Eye bleeding.
I’ll predict Hibs won’t be mentioned once. An even number of Old Firm skits peppered with Fergie, Denis Law & Nicola Sturgeon. A random weegie in-joke for Glasgow viewers and a couple of sectarians.

[Baader]

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For the same reason that the BBC Scotland news is presented with the iconic world renowned backdrop of a big rusting crane over that boring view of Edinburgh from Calton hill. For the same reason that BBC Scotland flagship shows like River City and Still game are set in Glasgow and never Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Dundee. Even STV aren't immune allowing John Hannah to produce their version of Rebus with himself totally miscast in the title role, something even he admitted was a mistake ... wrong age, wrong shape, wrong accent.

TV in this country just cant see past its Glasgow centric love in ... for them Glasgow is Scotland, no wonder folk outside of Scotland get a shock when the meet a Scotsman or woman who doesn't sound like Billy Connolly.

Off topic but theres a lot of truth in that. As someone from Edinburgh who works in TV in London and used to have regular dealing with Glasgow it was glaringly obvious of an anti Edinburgh bias.

Even the talking heads are stacked. Watch vox pops from Edinburgh or stock footage when there's a report from there. They go out of their way to show a quiet Princes St with little old ladies, preferably with a shopping trolley. It never shows the city as bustling, busy and dynamic.

[Golden Bear]

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For the same reason that the BBC Scotland news is presented with the iconic world renowned backdrop of a big rusting crane over that boring view of Edinburgh from Calton hill. For the same reason that BBC Scotland flagship shows like River City and Still game are set in Glasgow and never Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Dundee. Even STV aren't immune allowing John Hannah to produce their version of Rebus with himself totally miscast in the title role, something even he admitted was a mistake ... wrong age, wrong shape, wrong accent.

TV in this country just cant see past its Glasgow centric love in ... for them Glasgow is Scotland, no wonder folk outside of Scotland get a shock when the meet a Scotsman or woman who doesn't sound like Billy Connolly.

Well said Nookie. If possible, BBC Radio Scotland is even more Glasgow orientated than their TV counterparts.

[givescotlandfreedom]

Absolute pish. Getting it in early this year.

[we are hibs]

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For the same reason that the BBC Scotland news is presented with the iconic world renowned backdrop of a big rusting crane over that boring view of Edinburgh from Calton hill. For the same reason that BBC Scotland flagship shows like River City and Still game are set in Glasgow and never Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Dundee. Even STV aren't immune allowing John Hannah to produce their version of Rebus with himself totally miscast in the title role, something even he admitted was a mistake ... wrong age, wrong shape, wrong accent.

TV in this country just cant see past its Glasgow centric love in ... for them Glasgow is Scotland, no wonder folk outside of Scotland get a shock when the meet a Scotsman or woman who doesn't sound like Billy Connolly.

Lovely bit of anti weegie posting there. Heres to more in the new decade 🍻

[KWJ]

**** sake. Dinnae watch it then.

It's no the best perhaps but there's always a couple of chortles in there.

[HAZ2000]

Why watch it if you don't like it

[Cabbie1875]

Watched it last year and laughed once, its time is done

[Alfred E Newman]

[QUOTE=Lewis Hazlett;6033398]Why watch it if you don't like it[/QUOTE
Because it's that bad that it's become cult viewing. I'll record it just to see how bad it actually is.

[stoneyburn hibs]

It's really quite easy for BBC Scotland, Scotch and Wry reruns.

[SquashedFrogg]

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Off topic but theres a lot of truth in that. As someone from Edinburgh who works in TV in London and used to have regular dealing with Glasgow it was glaringly obvious of an anti Edinburgh bias.

Even the talking heads are stacked. Watch vox pops from Edinburgh or stock footage when there's a report from there. They go out of their way to show a quiet Princes St with little old ladies, preferably with a shopping trolley. It never shows the city as bustling, busy and dynamic.

Anti Edinburgh? Really?

[mjhibby]

Should have been stopped ten years ago. Cringeworthy and infantile.

[Lago]

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It's that time of year again. Dennis Law, Frank McAvennie and Tango Man get their annual outing.

What's the predictions for tonight, can it get any worse than previous years?

Not doing Frank this year.

[Frankhfc]

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Where’s ra burdz?

A scene about Gary Mackay and 'Where's ma medals?' would be a decent replacement.

[Pretty Boy]

Selling Scotland with Jack Docherty on the BBC has been quite amusing so far.

[Jones28]

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Not doing Frank this year.

About 10 years too late

[staunchhibby]

Has been the best of tv tonight watching the old adverts

[Sir David Gray]

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Just cringeworthy. I do watch to see how unbelievably bad it is though!

Which is encouraging it to continue year after year. If people stopped watching it then it would be taken off air.

[stuart-farquhar]

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For the same reason that the BBC Scotland news is presented with the iconic world renowned backdrop of a big rusting crane over that boring view of Edinburgh from Calton hill. For the same reason that BBC Scotland flagship shows like River City and Still game are set in Glasgow and never Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Dundee. Even STV aren't immune allowing John Hannah to produce their version of Rebus with himself totally miscast in the title role, something even he admitted was a mistake ... wrong age, wrong shape, wrong accent.

TV in this country just cant see past its Glasgow centric love in ... for them Glasgow is Scotland, no wonder folk outside of Scotland get a shock when the meet a Scotsman or woman who doesn't sound like Billy Connolly.

Pretty much spot on big man by the way so it is.

[Smartie]

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A scene about Gary Mackay and 'Where's ma medals?' would be a decent replacement.

It would be quite funny to do a modern, one-off Edinburgh special of some sort.

We do 15 minutes worth of nae medals, Levein on the bog, unfinished stand, 400,000 fans, 12 fingered sister pumping gags. In the interests of fairness we give them 15 minutes to presumably hold up a 5-1 hand gesture. What do they mock us for - upgrading the family car and not “buying British”? Driving said car without driving gloves? Not playing golf? Not even owning a cardigan?

Cracking tv.

For us, anyway.

It would be great to make a programme with the main intention being to alienate Glaswegians - a whole half hour without a thinly-veiled sectarian joke. There will be Old Firm game levels of domestic abuse when it reaches the end without a “whit fit dae ye kick wi” punchline.

[SteveHFC]

20 seconds and it’s already pish.

[Pretty Boy]

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It would be quite funny to do a modern, one-off Edinburgh special of some sort.

We do 15 minutes worth of nae medals, Levein on the bog, unfinished stand, 400,000 fans, 12 fingered sister pumping gags. In the interests of fairness we give them 15 minutes to presumably hold up a 5-1 hand gesture. What do they mock us for - upgrading the family car and not “buying British”? Driving said car without driving gloves? Not playing golf? Not even owning a cardigan?

Cracking tv.

For us, anyway.

It would be great to make a programme with the main intention being to alienate Glaswegians - a whole half hour without a thinly-veiled sectarian joke.

We won the SC for the 1st time in 114 years and there was a well publicised pitch invasion afterwards. You would think a comedian worth their salt could have done something really decent with that.

What we got was 30 seconds on OAE with a Trainspotting type hallucination than was as crap as it was predictable. Then it was back to the Celtic, Rangers, Celtic, Rangers, Sturgeon, Celtic, Rangers, token non OF joke, Celtic, Rangers, pop culture, Celtic/Rangers joint joke to finish.

They just aren't interested in looking outside the bubble. It was the same with the whole Hearts/Romanov circus, that could have been about 3 hour long specials alone. It barely got 3 seconds.

[Frankhfc]

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It would be quite funny to do a modern, one-off Edinburgh special of some sort.

We do 15 minutes worth of nae medals, Levein on the bog, unfinished stand, 400,000 fans, 12 fingered sister pumping gags. In the interests of fairness we give them 15 minutes to presumably hold up a 5-1 hand gesture. What do they mock us for - upgrading the family car and not “buying British”? Driving said car without driving gloves? Not playing golf? Not even owning a cardigan?

Cracking tv.

For us, anyway.

It would be great to make a programme with the main intention being to alienate Glaswegians - a whole half hour without a thinly-veiled sectarian joke. There will be Old Firm game levels of domestic abuse when it reaches the end without a “whit fit dae ye kick wi” punchline.

[SMAXXA]

It is *****, it wiz ***** and always will be *****. It’s done just can the thing man don’t know a single person who actually likes it

[Hiber-nation]

Alex Norton must be short of cash.

As well as being absolute pish this looks like it's been written by someone on mind-altering drugs.