Additionally the royal household saga, with the dying of the Queen Elizabeth and the proclamation of King Charles, continues to play out on our screens.
There was an NRL ultimate between Easts and Souths on 9 (757,000 nationally) and Foxtel (325,000) that ought to have had a PG ranking — excessive violence and crudeness, very interesting to dinosaur commentators. If the NRL thinks that degree of violence is interesting to the broader fan base, they’ve one other factor coming.
The three different NRL finals had been all nice, quick, skilful video games, one among them determined in a golden level. The 2 AFL finals had been additionally nice ads for the code, however not an exhibition of battering rams, swinging arms and different thuggery that we noticed on Sunday afternoon. A number of concussions and a number of other stars dominated out of the match. If anybody had executed the identical factor exterior a soccer discipline they might have been on an assault cost.
Elsewhere on TV: extra QEII and KCIII stuff. Can we’ve some adjustments in “the protocols” for when one thing like that occurs once more (as it would before later)? It was comforting to know that the wardrobe departments of the networks and Sky Information had sufficient white shirts and black fits, ties, frocks and clothes for the weekend broadcasts.
