The KC and BBC have 'mutually agreed' to terminate the contract meaning the BBC will definitely not be filming Crufts 2010 which would have been the final show in the 3 year contract.  This announcement is on the front page of this week's issue of Dog World and can also be viewed on line

I'd imagine there may well be interest from other parties who were unable to fill the breach this year due to the contractual arrangements in place :)

So are the bbc definitely not showing crufts this year? Will it be online anywhere? Such a shame, I used to love watching gundog day!

> So are the bbc definitely not showing crufts this year?

That's been definite for a while, it was merely whether the following year's show (2010) would go ahead that was something of a mystery.

Yes, some events will be available on-line DETAILS here :)

I know this has been mentioned before but I'm a bit sorry it won't be on TV.  I didn't always like the content, or the presenting style (particularly in recent years) but I'll miss the excitement of sitting down to watch it!

There's something about the combination of all that green colour, the barking, and Peter Purves that gives me a warm feeling.  I used to think that there was something right in a world that stops for a few minutes to watch dogs :)

Time for someone/something new - yes probably; but as it's my first year with my first 'show' dog I would have liked the opportunity to be part of something that was always a TV 'event' in our house.

Whilst I'm wishing for the unobtainable I might spare a wish for a year without controversy so I don't feel obligated to defend a hobby I don't completely understand yet... :) (I have to keep checking the rules with my breeder and on CD!)

It's such a shame that it's not on t.v this year.  Although I am going on the saturday, still feel that something will be missing by not being able to watch the other days on the box.  Its been such a tradition every year and always look forward to it so much!  Keeping fingers crossed that another broadcaster takes it on for next year. x

> I didn't always like the content, or the presenting style (particularly in recent years) but I'll miss the excitement of sitting down to watch it!
>

I completely agree dogs a babe.  I'll miss it too as watching even a limited number of BOBs in each group and then the groups themselves is better than nothing.  We just have to keep everything crossed that a suitable production team and a rejuvenated KC can come up with something better, slicker and more informative than before for next year and it will be on a channel available to everyone :)
(I'm not asking much then LOL)

> imagine there may well be interest from other parties who were unable to fill the breach this year due to the contractual arrangements in place

Hopefully someone will pick it up and actually show it as a dog show, with the presenters having a little subject knowledge. :)

You and me both kiddo ;)

> I'd imagine there may well be interest from other parties who were unable to fill the breach this year due to the contractual arrangements in place

yay!!!

It's such a shame that it's not on t.v this year.  Although I am going on the saturday, still feel that something will be missing by not being able to watch the other days on the box.

But you get to see it online instead, all the usual stuff minus the idiot presenters -just Peter Purves and Frank Kane. :)

> But you get to see it online instead, all the usual stuff minus the idiot presenters -just Peter Purves and Frank Kane

ohhhh, fogal free tv :) a beautiful thing :)

> But you get to see it online instead, all the usual stuff minus the idiot presenters -just Peter Purves and Frank Kane

A plus point that editing should be better but an ickle box in the middle of a 17" laptop -v- full screen 42" plasma ...... not great but will have to do (and my bum wont look big if it get's in the way of a camera - so that's another PLUS point for the mini screen :-D )

> and my bum wont look big if it get's in the way of a camera

Lol at Teri :-D :-D :-D

Teri,

Surely a super duper 42 inch plasma TV would have a scart lead connection point thingy?  (As you can see I'm very technologically minded LOL ) if so, you can link to a lappy and watch in glorious pantechnicolour :-D

It's such a shame that it's not on t.v this year

I used to enjoy the pre-Crufts programmes more than the daily programmes.  The daily programmes had all got a little bit silly, with "celebrity vets" telling you stuff that a dog owner would already know etc.  Hopefully someone will pick it up & make it the type of programme it deserves to be, informative but with lots of dogs, not interviewing a bunch of celebrities with labradoodles or the latest fad in cross breed (no offence meant, but you know what I mean).

We want to see the bits we missed on the days we didn't go or the rings we couldn't get to on the days we did go!!

A plus point that editing should be better but an ickle box in the middle of a 17" laptop -v- full screen 42" plasma

Teri, you jammy so and so! My computer screen is 19" and my telly is 20" so I don't notice the difference. How the rich live eh! ;)

Same here Marianne, but I have the absolute luxury of a 21" TV screen :-D :-D

Daughter and her partner have a 42" flat etc and have hooked it up to the computer so they also use it as a monitor  

Just think 42" of Champdogs LOL

Thing is, if the on-line version is similar to youtube type display then it's just a little window because more often than not when viewed full screen on the PC/laptop of whatever size the quality isn't great (too pixelated or whatever the term is) so I'm guessing watching on a TV screen of whatever size isn't going to improve things ....... but I could be totally wrong :-o

ps TV size definitely wasn't my decision - boys and toys  >sigh<

>Daughter and her partner have a 42" flat etc and have hooked it up to the computer so they also use it as a monitor

They must have the most enormous room! Our living room's quite small (only 12' x 12') so the biggest screen we could have without the TV being the most obvious item in the room would be a 21". At the moment we have a 14" TV, which is nicely unobtrusive. :-) The only problem is reading subtitles and credits - at our age the letters are too small now!

> They must have the most enormous room!

Not really!  the house is tiny and the kitchen/living room is about 20' x 16' (if that ;) )    The TV does dominate, to me, but they love it - no accounting for taste ;)

Our living/dining room is 16' x 24' and we have a 21" - it was 14" until I couldn't see to read the subtitles, then the old thing died so we got the 21"  :-D   next door have a 48" on their chimney breast wall which I couldn't live with, must be like living a cinema :( :(

I prefer not to be assaulted by a TV when I enter a room ;)

>next door have a 48" on their chimney breast wall

There's a house in the village that I walk past with a very small front room, and they have a massive TV - must be 42" minimum - only about 8 feet from the window, with the sofa facing it! (I know this because they never shut their curtains when it's dark outside, so everyone walking past can't help but see in.) It must give them terrible headaches to be so close to such an enormous screen.

>I prefer not to be assaulted by a TV when I enter a room

Me too, most definitely!

We've got a wall mounted 42" plasma :-D  Due to the wonders of wifi and xbox and other computery things (OH's department) it is linked to his super-computer (what a complete nerd).  Unfortunately he is off to a LAN party with said computer so I can't watch Crufts :-(  Life is sooo unfair.  I have a dinky laptop but the quality of picture might not be so good.

OH's dad has gone through the midlife crisis thing and bought a 50" plasma with surround sound.  Boys!

> There's a house in the village that I walk past with a very small front room, and they have a massive TV - must be 42" minimum

Oh dear - in a small room that would be scary - imagine watching something all blood and gore   42" isn't massive by any means in our lounge.  Even our daughter's 37" looks suitably discreet in her bedroom :)

I'm not a huge fan of TV so really don't care what size they are so long as they're not a 'focal point' anywhere - IMO that's OK for cinemas, pubs and clubs but not homes.

> 42" isn't massive by any means in our lounge.  Even our daughter's 37" looks suitably discreet in her bedroom

Its funny isn't it - my OH is really into his telly (although I prefer going on the computer or listening to music) and we have a 52" LCD in our lounge (not a wall mounted one) - but it doesn't look big at all as the lounge is a large room with very high ceilings (we live in a converted pub!) If we have visitors round they always comment on the size of the TV but I really dont see it as big!

Anyway getting back to Crufts - I hope my friend's OH will be able to somehow link up our TV and my computer so I can watch - there's something 'not quite the same' about watching TV on your computer!! I for one am quite upset that Crufts wont be on, I used to love coming back from Crufts, watching the groups and then the exciting climax of best in show. :-(