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Headline news on 7th of July, "The Nation will be at a standstill this afternoon as England play Sweden". Sorry, most people in Scotland are mourning the murder of a 6 year old child and couldn't care less about a game of football. Absolutely disgraceful and bias reporting, there is more than one country in this "nation" and if football qualifies as headline news then no wonder we are in the mess we are in at the moment.

I am reporting about comments made by Gary Neville during the coverage of the Uruguay vs. France football game. I thought there was a campaign about not hiding your feelings, yet Gary Neville was mocking the Uruguayan player Jose Maria Giminez, who was clearly emotional as his team were being knocked out of the world cup. I thought the comments were disgraceful coming from a fellow Sportsman, who should know how important this is to people.

The World Cup coverage has generally been okay, however whenever there's an England game the levels of biased commentary, especially against Colombia was sickening. You as an organisation are required to give a natural perspective of the game - there was no such thing last night. It was like hearing two English lager-loats shouting at the TV, than two 'well respected' TV pundits / commentators. Yes, England got roughed up by Colombia, and we were duly told during the game but whenever England did anything wrong - and they certainly did (2 blatant dives in the box, 1 kick to an opponents head and a head-to-head incident) there was either 'radio silence' or "oh that was naughty" or "well, they do that to us".

If you can't find an English commentator and pundit for the England games that can do a professional job then get someone natural in to do so.

The commentary of the World Cup Second Round tonight (3 July) match between England and Colombia, was, to be bluntly direct, disgraceful and unacceptably England-biased. Yes the studio team/commentary team are largely English but these people are not there as fans, they are there to do a job, a fair, unbiased reporting job.
Pre-match all that was talked about was the next game, (a potential quarter-final), actual little mention of the upcoming second round match at hand, some would view that as dismissing the current opponents (Colombia) entirely, some would view that as 'oh never mind this game, this is won' mentality, disgraceful from presumed professional presenters/commentators to be very clear, and quite honestly it would smack of, to many, of unbridled arrogance. For that is what it is.
In half time of extra time the commentators were pretty much raving 'something needs to be done' 'we need to do something'
We ?
There was a lot of 'We' in the game, and I would think that if ITV broadcasts in not only the UK, what must other countries think, listening to such biased fantalk, because its certainly anything but neutral commentary. That is what they are paid for, neutral commentary. Not talking about plotting Englands route through a competition like no other team matters.
I would hope ITV aims to be a fair and unbiased broadcaster and that you understand genuine sports commentary does not start and end with one nations interests or chances. If your sports staff are paid to be fans and talk about their own country as if they're down the pub then fair enough. It is not, however, I believe, fitting for a major tv broadcasting channel, be it BBC, Sky or ITV and is no good reflection on you either.
Perhaps you should look at how much analysis/chat was actually spent on the featured match before kickoff, and listen to some of the extra-time commentary and consider how appropriate it is.
It is the World Cup, not the England Show, if 'pundits' cannot rein that then let them go and bring professional analysts and correspondents.

I have been a spurs fan all 60 years of my life glenn Hoddle fantastic footballer mediocre manager & the worse commentator with his boring drool & verbal replay of what I have just watched you must of got him on the cheap from bt sport there are much better commentators out there if you have him under contract & cannot get shot of him can I suggest a Glenn Hoddle mute button he is spoiling my world cup

LADIES DAY.
I am not a racing fan but I do like to watch Ascot for the fashion exceptionally on Ladies Day. I do not want to see Charlotte and Mark all the time, I like a percentage of people would like to see the general pubic fashion, and as for going on the ship instead of showing the public I think is a time that could be spent showing the people that are attending Ascot.
Hope to hear from you soon,
A very disappointed viewer..

I am fed up with the lack of colour in the house all the girls are white all the guys are white there are no asian black or chinese at all throwing one black girl and two guys in does not count the majority of your cast is white it is a shame because the show has so much poetenial but at this rate the amount of people that are starting to not watch the show as they do not support the directors and the direction the show is going in you should call it #White island, and please do not go throwing aload of mixed race people in there thinking yeah there we go we need diversity its 2018!.

Why of why do you have Roy Keane. He offers nothing mumbles comments in as broad Irish accent as possible so he is not understood. No eye contact with fellow guests. He was even more disinterested in effort than Nigeria. If you persevere with Roy Keane please can you provide feedback to him to improve speech with effort that he can be understood and appear that he wants to work as part of the team.
Regards
Julian Eddy

why are you using American language, it really deters me from watching your programmes.
When it is a British programme, with English being spoken, there is absolutely no valid reason to turn it American for those who are unable to hear the spoken work; and are dependent on the sub-titles to convey the correct feel/atmosphere of whatever you broadcast.
RSVP
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Why was news reader Sharon Thomas (I think that was her name) sitting with a fake cigarette thing in her hand ? Not professional at all.

She was sitting with it in her hand that shouldn't be allowed sends out wrong message to everybody.

Why would you let her sit there with it visible or even be allowed to use whilst live on air although usefvwhen out of focus beyond believe really.

It's in the title BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT so why are you allowing people from other countries to perform?
Only people who currently reside in Britain and who have done so for a year should be allowed to enter.
The prize is to perform in front of the Royal Family so surely this should be people from her sovereign country and not those from China, Russia, Japan etc who are only interested in the prize money?
Aleisha is racist. People of colour are guaranteed a pass with Aleisha as a judge. They should be judged on their TALENT, not the colour of their skin.

Rgds James Warrior

David Walliams on Britain's Got Talent tonight 30/5/2018. What does he have to do to get voted off, I wish I had a red buzzer! A remark he made after the Japanese naked man was to near the knuckle for a family show. In fact a lot of the show needs to be looked at, I know there's an off button but I do like to see the variety. Simon has just said 'bloody' again. Come on what happened to the water shed!
Mrs L.M.Biles.

I have just watched this excellent drama but was disappointed and upset that the name of Jesus was used as a blasphemy on no less than three occasions. This was totally unnecessary and as a Christian I found it offensive. I am sure I speak for many other Christians who will have felt the same as me. We are a Christian country and I think this issue needs to be addressed before things get out of hand and we are hearing actors blaspheming as a matter of course.

Yesterday a Sichuan Airline Airbus A319 flying from Chongqing to Lhasa made an emergency landing when the cockpit window cracked and blew out nearly taking the co-pilot with it, he was only saved by the seatbelt.

This has been reported all over the worlds press EVEN on the trending feed of FACEBOOK yet the UK news and papers have NO mention of this MAJOR story.

Unless its UK politics, Brexit, national leaders visiting each, court action regarding baby care other or countries bombing each other for nothing more than cultural or religious reasons the UK media IS NOT interested.

http://bit.ly/2wHJpKXsted.

I attempted to view the 1st episode of Innocent broadcast at 9.0 pm 14/05/2018. I was unable to hear some of the dialog due to excessive back ground music at various places and on other occasions the dialog was distorted by excessive treble settings. On other occasions the dialog was inaudible because the microphone failed to pick up the actors words which were spoken softly.
These problems are not universally problematic, for example adverts are NEVER affected this way!
Most of the so called Soaps are rarely affected. These recording problems usually affect only drama productions.
I am an amateur video producer and am fully aware of associated technical problems, my equipment is very basic, I use Apple Final Cut pro X editing, it frustrates me to have to listen to such poor quality sound recordings when i know what they should sound like.

I am also disgusted by the comments made by Clarkson about the appallingly cruel and barbaric practice of catching, drowning, grilling and eating wild birds. When conservation organisations are working so hard to stop this type of killing of wild birds as they are in serious decline, his comments promoting it as being a delicacy is totally unacceptable. I have written separately to ITV complaining and asking them to take him to task and I have also written to the RSPB to bring it up with ITV.
This man should not be allowed to present any kind of popular TV programme.

Aside from finding comments Jeremy Clarkson made very rude, I found the comment about the " bunting" bird extremely offensive! Telling us you keep a bird in a box for months on end and then drown it in Cognac ready to cook and eat is appalling on a family show. Calling contestants " silly", was also bang out of order? Replace him with someone far better and a lot less rude!

Why is Jeremy ckarkson the new presenter of who wants to be a millionaire its a joke after what he has done I want u to reconsider on getting a different presenter to go the show of thousands off people will come to the ITV and protest I think he should be band from TV after asolting someone I'm Thomas Brookman my phone number is [protected] I want a reply and I'm from Pontypridd in wales

Given that 8.15pm is still early evening and well before the 9pm watershed, and given that ITV had already welcomed family viewing of The Voice by starting the programme as early as 7pm, why would they run a movie trailer about coming of age, using the lines "having sex" and "losing her virginity" during an advertisement break so early in the show? My seven year old daughter was watching. Surely it could have been advertised after 9pm? There is an understanding in this country that during shows where bad language is restricted, younger children are protected from advertising containing such content. You wouldn't play the Love-Honey advert during the breaks on The Voice, so why show an advert which is including equally inappropriate sexual language. Totally unacceptable.
Yours disappointedly,
Nerys Kendrick
[protected]@Hotmail.co.uk

I settled down to watch the friendly match between netherlands and England. at 7.30pm on March 23rd.

A advertisent came on with a young girl shouting and screaming at her mother, totally uncalled for and I found it very very offensive. What gave this schoolgirl the right to talk to her mother like that - it was because it was over Marmite - You either love it or hate it...

No wonder the young children talk to their parents like they do - they mimic the children in advertisments and think that it is perfectly normal and acceptable, Well! it isin't not to me anyway.