Why sacrifice Wimbledon analysis on the Dibley altar?

Every year the BBC is flooded with complaints about too much tennis being shown during Wimbledon. So no doubt schedulers were panicking last night as rain delays and the unflinching rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal conspired to take the men's final all the way from its scheduled start of 2pm through to dusk at 9.30pm. Songs of Praise and Last of the Summer Wine were shipped on to BBC2 and the mixed doubles' final, played to an audience of three men and a cat on court number one, was available through the red button to any tennis fan weird enough not to want to watch the main event. But was it really right to cut away so abruptly from the aftermath of one of the greatest tennis matches in history, watched by nearly 13m people? The 9pm drama George Gently had already been abandoned when the BBC decided to leave behind the gloaming on Centre Court and dispense with the analysis and further interviews that many of us were craving. And why - so we could watch a Vicar of Dibley repeat. Yes, a Vicar of Dibley repeat.