Starting with the previous night...- Men’s platform diving began with a mini-doc on British diver Tom Daley. The beginning made me think I was watching a Calvin Klein “Obsession” ad, but it turned into something that used to be common during QISE—an “up close and personal” story about his coming out as gay.
- Costas seemed annoyed to hand off a shortened prime time session last night to a “special” episode of the “hit comedy” SuperStore—almost as annoyed as the viewers were, I suspect. It didn’t help that they were running several minutes late, so if you were DVRing the games, you were screwed.
- There were a lot of team sports during daytime coverage—volleyball, basketball, water polo—so I may have burned out the fast forward button on my DVR’s remote. I think I got through 4 hours of coverage in about 15 minutes. The Triathlon was interesting, though.
- Prime Time began awkwardly, with a cold open showing the climax of the gold medal soccer match (Brazil won, so I doubt anyone in Rio cares about anything else tonight), then a quick cut to yet more live running!
- Coming up next, the Men’s 4x400 relay fina—sorry, we’re breaking in for local weather coverage! That continued for over 10 minutes, during which time the weatherman repeated the same info about 400 times. I know the local station has a responsibility, but isn’t that why they have two other digital channels? I’m sure they would hate to break into a Law & Order: SVU rerun being shown in the wrong resolution, but maybe they could make an exception for QISE?
- BTW—during the weather fiasco, I determined that the Peacock’s online “live” coverage is at least 90 seconds behind the broadcast.
One more day left...