AEW Dynamite's UK Debut Delayed After ITV Blame "Technical Difficulties"

*Very British grumbling intensifies*

Oct 3, 2019 October 3rd, 2019

As some of you may well already be aware, the promised showing of AEW Dynamite’s debut episode on the ITV Hub at 7pm today is not actually happening as planned.

Many UK wrestling fans will have been counting down the minutes as 7pm loomed large… only to be left disappointed and confused at a lack of AEW action.

As per ITV, there has been some apparent technical issue that has stopped AEW Dynamite hitting the ITV Hub for 7pm – although the show will supposedly be available at a TBC time later this evening.

Whether ITV working on this matter as a “priority” means that Dynamite will be available to watch at some point today remains to be seen, but either way this isn’t a great look for ITV and AEW after UK fans have already been left frustrated by the initial scheduling of AEW Dynamite.

If you remember, that original schedule was to see the regular Wednesday night Dynamite show air on Sunday morning for UK fans. After some very British grumbling aplenty, it was soon announced that AEW would in fact be made available on the ITV Hub on Thursdays at 7pm, before then repeating on Friday nights and on Sunday mornings.

Here’s hoping that ITV gets it sh*t together ASAP so that eager UK fans can get their hit of AEW Dynamite – with online spoilers becoming harder and harder to avoid by the minute!

Andrew Pollard

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