World Snooker Championship 2023

Higgins further turning the screw by winning a frame where he needed a snooker.

I'd say Wilson can't wait for it all just to be over.

I don't know, the pace Selby played at last night could test O'Sullivan's resolve.

Another example of how much easier the pockets are. John hit the black along the cushion and it hit the cushion, the commentators said he'd missed, John thought he'd missed and yet it still went in. You wouldn't get away with that in times past.

$h1tt¥ BBC and their coverage of the World Snooker Championship strike again. Have finished up to show The Alehouse Sessions, "A joyful celebration of 17th century folk music, fiddle tunes, drinking songs and sea shanties".

Get Eurosport, 40 quid a year when a sale is on and wall to wall snooker coverage.

Phil Yates is an acquired taste shall we say.

And Joe Johnson is hard going but I don't think he is as bad for rabitting on as he used to be.

But the other commentators I find great on Eurosport.

No morning session on Monday, and with the hole Lisowski and Wilson are in, there won't be loads of snooker played tommorow.

BBC are showing utter contempt for this World Championship.....should be taken off them now at this stage....

I can't believe people still actually watch snooker on BBC, their coverage has been terrible for years.

No FTA station is going to do it better, and World Snooker seem to want FTA. Sky totally withdrew from snooker a decade ago for whatever reason.

Realistically that leaves ITV who do good coverage of their events on ITV3/4 but that just isn't as big a 'name' channel for attracting audiences and a company being willing to stump up big sponsorship. Incidentally if they showed the final in ITV1 it would be a disaster for those us with VM in Leinster.

Also worth pointing out that everyone in the UK (their actual target market and paying customers) gets as much BBC coverage as they want. Everyone has red button/iplayer.

I think there's a lot of 'rose-tinted spectacles' here. My memory (1980s,90s,2000s) is of really poor coverage, especially in the evenings when they only showed 7-8pm and then a highlights show at 10.30pm (11.30pm BBCNI if we were lucky). Mornings were just catch-up highlights, afternoons were solid but consistently prone to interruption by politics and often shared with other sports - horseracing in particular.