‘High Noon’: I Don’t Think Clay Travis Liked ESPN’s New Show
After an interesting set of promos in the lead-up, Pablo S. Torre and Bomani Jones finally debuted their new ESPN show today at 12 P.M ET. The show, known as High Noon, features the two longtime sports personalities breaking down the latest sports news. Instead of the debate model, though, which has been so prevalent in the sports television world since the success of First Take, the show is more like two friends discussing topics.
After the debut show, some people liked it, and some didn’t. Besides all the obvious love from ESPN’s camp, others in the space tweeted that they enjoyed it.
I don’t watch much daytime TV that isn’t a live sporting event, but High Noon was enjoyable. The background music is really distracting, though, and could probably do without all the camera changes/shifts.
— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) June 4, 2018
The opening segment on #HighNoon was 16 minutes of unbroken commentary with no commercials. Excellent.
— Jane Coaston (@janecoaston) June 4, 2018
And of course, there were folks who didn’t. One of the more common themes was a disdain for the music that ran in the background. With that said, one of the bigger criticisms came from popular sports personality Clay Travis (of Outkick the Coverage fame) — hilariously calling it “Wokecenter 3.0” whether you agree or not.
Today @espn launched WokeCenter 3.0, aka, “Everything Is Racist!” with Pablo and Bromani. I watched 15 minutes. It’s very bad.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 4, 2018
Ponderous on topics, awkward banter, way too long shots on hosts with too few B roll cuts & launching in middle of summer with no topics and an hour of TV to fill. Another @espn failure. Good luck.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 4, 2018
Personally, I haven’t watched the full first episode, yet — just selected clips. My guess, however, is that I’ll probably land somewhere in the middle.
High Noon will appear every weekday at 12 P.M ET on ESPN. Clay Travis can be heard weekday mornings on Fox Sports Radio from 6-9 A.M ET.