Thank you BBC

Living abroad, and no longer having a tv that picks up UK channels, I thankfully missed this apparent - er - overkill.

But it is symptomatic of how far the BBC hasn't come in the 69 years since Her Maj's Dad popped them. This 3-y-o was severely disappointed that Listen With Mother was cancelled that day in 1952.

But then I was never a Royal Watcher. Late first wife Deb and I met her father and his girlfriend for lunch on the day of Charles and Di's wedding, but for the recent Royal Wedding I was a guest in Ashcombe's flat, so was content to watch what she wanted, even though I was a bit vague about who the happy couple were. Without a doubt UK does pomp and circumstance very well - if you like that sort of thing.

In 1948, Princess Elizabeth and my mum were up the duff (technical term) at the same time, and I am two days older than the Heir to the Throne. Apart from breathing the same air, I feel we have very little else in common. No question, the Royals do wonders for the UK tourist trade, but they do very little for me.

I suspect only ardent royalists have been watching all these "tributes"night after night. The other thing Iam really sick of is all the people who are there because they met him once or twice and are now claining they were great mates. Thank goodness for satellite TV. "Your Honor" is great.

Maggiemaybe thank you for the link. I think london bridge may be redundant now.

Why do you say that, jacqrose? I don't think that when the Queen dies, it'll be an Econo Funeral down the local Crem. However much some might want that.

I think it was totally uncalled for to have exactly the same programme on both BBC1 and BBC2. It smacks of propaganda and authoritarianism. I just kept the TV turned off.

I read that both the BBC and ITV had a 62% drop in viewing figures.

Maggiemaybe I just meant using the code word London Bridge for the queen is redundant as we are all aware of it now. I’ve been trying to think of what the new code name might be. How about job done.

Ah, I get it now, jacqrose, thank you. Job done sounds good to me!

suziewoozie ....... Have a nice day out next saturday. won't expect any posts from you on here on that day then.

????Quite possible to post when you are out.

Galaxy

????Quite possible to post when you are out.

Yep

BBC 4 was shut down completely

Well over 90% of viewers weren’t watching this repetitive obituary. The BBC has been inundated with complaints. So the people who think closing all BBC stations was a good thing are well in the minority and it can’t be justified. I am one who complained, and I’ve complained to the RHS who closed all their gardens, chucking everyone out who’d travelled to get to the gardens on Friday. Yes, it does affect me as I’d booked in for Wisley on Saturday and they are saying they’ll close for the funeral. PP said he didn’t want a fuss!!!

muse while they’re flooding the airwaves with Prince Phillip tributes were not seeing, for example, what’s happening in Northern Ireland. News about MPs claiming rent on expenses and then renting their own homes out. I have nothing against PP but this blanket coverage is deliberate IMO.

olddudders I am also living abroad. Fortunately I can pick British tv here, not like when I lived in Beijing in the early 90s, there it was government controlled and the local people did not know anything about was happening locally nor globally.

There are obviously a lot of BBC viewers out there. This thread also demonstrates that there are a lot of BBC viewers who are reluctant to hit the “off” button. Come on folks, there’s more to life than telly! I agree with mokryna. Thank you, BBC, for Friday’s coverage about the death of Prince Philip. I learned a lot and when I had had my fill I turned off. Simples. Plenty else to do.

vegansrock

Well over 90% of viewers weren’t watching this repetitive obituary. The BBC has been inundated with complaints. So the people who think closing all BBC stations was a good thing are well in the minority and it can’t be justified. I am one who complained, and I’ve complained to the RHS who closed all their gardens, chucking everyone out who’d travelled to get to the gardens on Friday. Yes, it does affect me as I’d booked in for Wisley on Saturday and they are saying they’ll close for the funeral. PP said he didn’t want a fuss!!!

This is beyond dreadful. Bloody fascism imo. Perhaps a royalist could care to defend this? WTAF

AcornFairy

There are obviously a lot of BBC viewers out there. This thread also demonstrates that there are a lot of BBC viewers who are reluctant to hit the “off” button. Come on folks, there’s more to life than telly! I agree with mokryna. Thank you, BBC, for Friday’s coverage about the death of Prince Philip. I learned a lot and when I had had my fill I turned off. Simples. Plenty else to do.

This is silly/ it’s not about hitting the off button is it? Is about the BBC not offering a choice. Try and read the thread. I’m sure the content x 3 was delightful and all the better for being in trioeo

Well royalists would say it’s a mark of respect - why? Anyone who wants to respect PP can do so in their own way, they don’t have to have diktats telling them when and how to do it. If you want to watch a documentary on his life you can do so on one channel, don’t need 3. Smacks of Soviet system where we all have to toe the party line.

The RHS has completely lost the plot. Shops didn’t close, NT didn’t close - who gave the order I wonder. You can spend a fortune travelling to and paying to get in and then you get chucked out? Mass evacuation? Oh how very Covid secure.

Just read up on this - people had to exit through a narrow way out with no social distancing. The resultant traffic chaos on the A3 was dreadful

polarbear2 agree with you and what else are they going to slip through during eight days
of mourning

The BBC has been inundated with complaints. So the people who think closing all BBC stations was a good thing are well in the minority and it can’t be justified.

The BBC releases information about the number of complaints it receives fortnightly. The next report's not due until 15 April, so we don't actually know this. I'd guess they've had a lot, but I'd also guess that there's now a huge swathe of the population that doesn't watch terrestrial television, so won't be bothered in the slightest.

The RHS closing is a complete over-reaction. I'd have been furious.

suziewoozie - yes, it is actually about hitting the off button. And yes, I have read this thread: carefully. And what is being said leads me to believe that too many people place the BBC on too much of a pedestal. The institution consists of human beings. Many and varied. Like you and me. They – we – cannot be all things to all people.

I don't think asking a TV service not to run programmes on the same subject at the same time is putting something on a pedestal, it's a fairly normal expectation.

AcornFairy

suziewoozie - yes, it is actually about hitting the off button. And yes, I have read this thread: carefully. And what is being said leads me to believe that too many people place the BBC on too much of a pedestal. The institution consists of human beings. Many and varied. Like you and me. They – we – cannot be all things to all people.

Not having the same thing on 3 channels doesn’t sound like too much to expect from a public body that forces me to pay it a licence fee. That’s not putting it on a pedestal, it’s what imo I’ve a right to expect.