Live Darts?

One of the Freeview channels has six consecutive hours of ‘live darts’ tonight. Can the words ‘live’ and ‘darts’ really sit that close to one another? Whilst there is undoubted skill in playing the game, as a spectacle it has to be the deadest thing ever invented. There’s no defensive element to it, and therefore no tactics. It’s duller than golf; it hardly bears favourable comparison with watching a cow eat grass. So who the hell would watch even ten minutes, let alone six hours, of such tedium?