They are amazing. 're the wall to wall coverage, You can watch when you want to. When you don't, Other channels are available.
A pittance compared to Sky's offerings.You still have to pay though.
The payment is for the right to use broadcasting reception equipment. It just so happens to fund the BBC.You still have to pay though.
And that grindingly obsequious git, Giles Brandreth.It has indeed been excellent. Only thing that caught my attention in a negative way was the snivelling impossible snob and Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell making numerous barbed comments about the absence of Megan last Thursday when Harry went to Balmoral.
I quite like him actually. At least he has a sense of humour.And that grindingly obsequious git, Giles Brandreth.
Yeah. I always go to GB News for completely impartial and politics free reporting.This is what they do best without a doubt. The problem is their pushing of political agendas and censorship slanting news items etc.
Loved the bit that I watched when they were speculating for about 20 minutes about the route that Prince Charles would take to get back to Buckingham Palace - all aided by helicopter pictures of his car driving around London. Fascinating!Whenever I put on the coverage I’m immediately struck by the ‘talent’ of the panelists/narrators who can seemingly talk open-endedly about nothing of note.
When they’re giving a report about a breaking news event, it’s often very time constrained and so it’s about the key facts. But this coverage of the Queen’s passing is the opposite. They’ve got the air waves to fill for hours and hours and days and days. And so they waffle on and on, about mostly nothing. They have to keep talking cos so we know they’ve not fallen asleep like most of their elderly audience will undoubtedly have.
When I tuned in a couple of days ago, an aircraft carrying the coffin had just landed. So the commentator said something along the lines of ‘this huge huge aircraft has landed. It’s an incredibly large aircraft. It will have to make its way to the east side of the airfield where it will be received. It will begin to taxi slowly yet steadily along the taxi -way, it’s huge mass inevitably onward to its destination.’
It was at that point I switched it off. I’m interested in the Queen’s life and legacy. But I’m not at all interested in listening to banal drivel about a big plane and how it has to taxi along the taxi-way. It was just talking for the sake of talking. Boring. Tedious. Irrelevant. Yet somehow millions of folk are gripped by it. Probably cos they’ve nowt else better to be doing.
I can't help but agree Malced. It's all getting a bit tiresome now. I'm not particularly a royalist but I was a big admirer of the Queen and I was sad and upset when I heard she had died. I'll watch the funeral but all this coverage is getting a bit too much.Whenever I put on the coverage I’m immediately struck by the ‘talent’ of the panelists/narrators who can seemingly talk open-endedly about nothing of note.
When they’re giving a report about a breaking news event, it’s often very time constrained and so it’s about the key facts. But this coverage of the Queen’s passing is the opposite. They’ve got the air waves to fill for hours and hours and days and days. And so they waffle on and on, about mostly nothing. They have to keep talking cos so we know they’ve not fallen asleep like most of their elderly audience will undoubtedly have.
When I tuned in a couple of days ago, an aircraft carrying the coffin had just landed. So the commentator said something along the lines of ‘this huge huge aircraft has landed. It’s an incredibly large aircraft. It will have to make its way to the east side of the airfield where it will be received. It will begin to taxi slowly yet steadily along the taxi -way, it’s huge mass inevitably onward to its destination.’
It was at that point I switched it off. I’m interested in the Queen’s life and legacy. But I’m not at all interested in listening to banal drivel about a big plane and how it has to taxi along the taxi-way. It was just talking for the sake of talking. Boring. Tedious. Irrelevant. Yet somehow millions of folk are gripped by it. Probably cos they’ve nowt else better to be doing.
I noticed that NW would occasionally talk in the past tense during his segment about Her Majesty last thursday, before correcting himself....In retrospect watching Nicholas Witchell (should have been replaced as Royal Correspondent aeons ago surely) and Huw Edwards still musing on about Her Majesty’s repeated immobility issues on live TV last Thursday at about 5.00 pm ish, or maybe even later, when they must have known she had been dead for a while now seems painfully cringeworthy.
Whatever but this is to go on till Monday at least, nearly everyone I spoke to lately is up to the back teeth with it , the BBC is just so morose
And there it is. In full view of the crowds. Making its way towards Buckingham Palace, a pigeon.
JHB is a republican apparently.Watching TalkTV coverage with Julia Hartley Brewer and its really good and refreshing and devoid of a lot of BS
Very proud ex RN here. Whole armed forces have done us proud there. Incredible.No one does military organisation and precision marching like the British do.
Difficult to comment on without watching others. Not seeing what they would bring to the table that others aren't.I have a lot of criticism for the BBC but on accessions such as this it can not be matched, wouldn’t think of watching on any other broadcaster than the BBC
I’ve had a flick around but get your point. I just wouldn’t consider watching another outlet to be honest, BBC for me, can’t be touched on these state occasionsDifficult to comment on without watching others. Not seeing what they would bring to the table that others aren't.
Just thinking that.Wonder if we'll ever get a non religious state funeral. Unlikely as the crown bring the head of the church. One of the downsides of live TV.
Putting personal feelings of GBNews aside I've found their coverage over the last week very educational, especially by Alastair Stewart and David StarkeyI’ve had a flick around but get your point. I just wouldn’t consider watching another outlet to be honest, BBC for me, can’t be touched on these state occasions
A thought occurred to me the other day, if there is an afterlife will she still be a queen in it?When religion and monarchy collide - the biggest shitfest ensues
Hands up anyone who thinks she’s approaching the pearly gates as we speak
It was big thoughWhenever I put on the coverage I’m immediately struck by the ‘talent’ of the panelists/narrators who can seemingly talk open-endedly about nothing of note.
When they’re giving a report about a breaking news event, it’s often very time constrained and so it’s about the key facts. But this coverage of the Queen’s passing is the opposite. They’ve got the air waves to fill for hours and hours and days and days. And so they waffle on and on, about mostly nothing. They have to keep talking cos so we know they’ve not fallen asleep like most of their elderly audience will undoubtedly have.
When I tuned in a couple of days ago, an aircraft carrying the coffin had just landed. So the commentator said something along the lines of ‘this huge huge aircraft has landed. It’s an incredibly large aircraft. It will have to make its way to the east side of the airfield where it will be received. It will begin to taxi slowly yet steadily along the taxi -way, it’s huge mass inevitably onward to its destination.’
It was at that point I switched it off. I’m interested in the Queen’s life and legacy. But I’m not at all interested in listening to banal drivel about a big plane and how it has to taxi along the taxi-way. It was just talking for the sake of talking. Boring. Tedious. Irrelevant. Yet somehow millions of folk are gripped by it. Probably cos they’ve nowt else better to be doing.