anyone know of the times of tv programmes for crufts this year please
carolann

List of BBC 2 coverage here.

thank you
carolann

Ooh with BBC Interactive too!  Extended Group judging coverage.  Cool :d

Debs

"Find out when to see the BBC highlights of the biggest dog show in the world"
Is that just a tad exagerated....:rolleyes:
Fiona

Is what exagerated?  That it's the biggest dog show in the world?  That is fact actually :)

Debs

really i wouldnt have thought so
*hides!*

Yep! There are more dogs entered at Crufts than at any other show in the world. :)

LOL Fiona :d

Just to put it into perspective for you:

This year the total entry for Crufts is 22,320 dogs over the four days.

The Westminster show in America (touted as the American Crufts) had an entry of 2,500 dogs last month ;)

So yeah... it's a bit on the large side :d

Debs

It's not often we beat them for biggest and best is it ;)  Be different if they held it in Texas probably :D

its amazing how such a small country can hold the worlds biggest show
:O
Fiona

Does anybody know if it's that Ben Fogle person presenting it again this year? :rolleyes:

As far as I know yes

Looks like it :rolleyes:

At least Clare Balding is back co-presenting this year. But Fogle Jr should be gagged as far as I'm concerned -he's good to look at but that's all.

Bring back Richard Hammond!! that's what I say :d

Fogle should stick to what he does best - whatever that may be - it's not Crufts that's for sure!  He made a right numpty of himself AND the showing world last year.

Debs

>Bring back Richard Hammond!! that's what I say

Here here!!!!! :D

At least when he did take the micky out of crufts he aid the truth "it's more like a trade show" :D

Looks like I'll have him all to myself :)

Please do! ;) Take him away to a quiet corner and keep him occupied while someone who knows what they're talking about presents the programmes! :D :D

I'd like to be associated with the last plea! :D  I think he is useless too.

Yes - hes just PBNB!!

pretty boy - no brain ;)

Surely that is better than many of the previous presenters that could not deliver in either department :D

I know, let's press the mute button when he's on!! :D :D

Yes, I don't mind doing that if it makes you lot happy :)

What a hero, Isabel :D - what a sacrifice to make for the sake of other CD'ers sanity :D :D :D

(Just keep him in that corner - in a crate if necessary, and feed him sweeties :D :D :D)

Margot

Oh, goody :)  I don't believe in all that sins of the father stuff ;)

Nor do I, but he was rubbish last year! :(

I thought he was a very good studio man.  The real dog people are there for the informing side of things but they do not always make good presenters.

He's very good with scripts (when he wears his glasses ;)), but he can't ad lib, and he hadn't even researched breed names. I thought his presentation last year was very amateur.

I appreciate I have some bias ;) but I didn't notice any of that.  To me he just came across as a real lover of dogs but with no special expertise :)  Which I suspect is typical of most of the viewers.

I have to agree with JG, it was cringe making that he couldn't even get breed names right.

Surely a presenter of a speciality programme should have some expertise, though? Imagine Wimbledon being presented by someone who hasn't played tennis since he left junior school, or me commentating on a football match! The presenter's meant to be explaining what's happening to those who don't know. Last year it was the blind leading the blind.

I read in some breed notes in one of the dog papers that it was Clare Balding... hope so! 

Oh I see there's Ben Fogle as well..... how intensely irritating. Richard Hammond and Jessica Holm were both much better IMO.

oh dear fee didn't you know that :P :D you do now!

Oh nooo......don't think he's even good to look at, let alone listen to!

Sounds like Isabel has him all to herself. :D

Oh please Isabel....take him away!! :-D

I agree, keep Clare, get rid of the Fogle brat!! :-D