The Boat Race on ITV

[The Rut]

The Boat Race on ITV........How will they ruin it?........Ant and Dec as coxes?.......any idea?

[jenstar]

Well, the race itself takes about 20 minutes which suggests that they'll probably cut away pretty quickly afterwards for an ad break.

[sft42]

Sorry, ruin? It's good anyway? It's a bunch of upper class twits paddling down the thames...it couldn't be any less insignificant if it tried.

[Hippy]

Just like those professionaly sponsored footy and cricket matches they'll paint a slanting commercial logo on the surface of the water to catch the cameras at just the right angle.

[Rabelais]

Well if the last few years of coverage from the premiership is anything to go by, they'll only show it if Chelsea, Arsenal or Man U are in it.

[JohnPPotts]

Rabelais, you're surprisingly accurate - rather like Chelsea, Arsenal and Man U, the Oxford & Cambridge teams have long moved away from putting their best 8 undergraduate rowers into their boat in favour of importing a team of international stars specifically for the purpose of rowing in the event (though they aren't paid 50 grand a week).