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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.
 
Macseasider said:
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.
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And that grindingly obsequious git, Giles Brandreth.
 
The next words out of Huw's mouth should be coverage of the event can be found on red button,iPlayer or BBC 3, we will be back at 10.55 on Monday for the funeral untill then the BBC will return to normal programming across all its output.
 
I don't know what the problem is with you people. Today I'm looking forward to some in-depth coverage as the coffin reaches Hyde Park corner.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Malced said:
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.
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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!
 
Malced said:
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.
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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.
Thankfully, it's not the 70's or 80's and we now have a wealth of tv channels to choose from.
 
glasshalffull said:
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.
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I noticed that NW would occasionally talk in the past tense during his segment about Her Majesty last thursday, before correcting himself....
 
I think Liz Truss was informed of the death at 4.30pm so assume it occurred shortly before then. The family members who flew to Balmoral arrived after that and the public announcement was made at 6.30pm.
 
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
 
You know that it is straight on if you want a daily catch up. No one has to watch it. Many other channels available.
 
BigHandsOliverKahn said:
And there it is. In full view of the crowds. Making its way towards Buckingham Palace, a pigeon.
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... and as it sadly sweeps over the majestic building and the crowds of respectful mourners, who are gathering respectfully to pay their respects to the Queen of Their Hearts, who has served and sacrificed for a lot of years, a tear falls from the pigeons eye and lands at the feet of Prince Andrew.
 
BBC all the way for me .. even classy showing Paddington 2 later on - a bit better than the day of Di's funeral when they showed Free Willy that night 🤣 (true story!).
 
When religion and monarchy collide - the biggest shitfest ensues

Hands up anyone who thinks she’s approaching the pearly gates as we speak
 
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.
 
Halifax71 said:
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.
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Just thinking that.

I'm agnostic, and I feel sometimes that the clergy take over, although that's inevitable in a church service.

However, I find the environs and the music very moving.
 
The Catcher in the Rye said:
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 occasions
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Putting personal feelings of GBNews aside I've found their coverage over the last week very educational, especially by Alastair Stewart and David Starkey
 
I struggle with GB News full stop to be honest. Everything they do seems to be politicised or come from a position of pretty extreme bias, so it’s difficult that take them seriously.

The BBC generally strikes a more balanced note and certainly cover events like this particularly well. 👍

The coverage throughout the week has been excellent.
 
Recidivist3 said:
When religion and monarchy collide - the biggest shitfest ensues

Hands up anyone who thinks she’s approaching the pearly gates as we speak
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A thought occurred to me the other day, if there is an afterlife will she still be a queen in it?
Living life like a king or queen for eternity would be a great idea of heaven for many of us but maybe she would fancy something different 🤔
 
Malced said:
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.
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It was big though 😁
 
Sad that I was about the queens death I was over it the day after, unlike when a close relative who I actually knew died. This is pomp & pageantry at its greatest & we are world leaders at it. I’ll probably get shot down for not being patriotic, but I can’t help thinking this is where all the establishment comes together in order to keep it in place. Your Eton’s, churches & Monarchy. In a give the peasant’s a something to look up to moment.
As a race how much longer can we justify religion, I’d guess until we break the establishment cycle it’ll continue, I do believe that the monarchy will slowly be reduced as has happened since democracy took hold.
 
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