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The BBC have been overwhelmed with complaints about coverage of Prince Philip

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 12:29

Showing the same thing on 2 channels simultaneously.

Now you just enter your email to complain as they couldn’t cope with the amount of complaints.

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Itsokay2020 · 10/04/2021 14:02

ArseInTheCoOpWindow

It’s not about refunds. It’s about the assumption that as a licence payer which funds the BBC l want to watch this crap. And l don’t.

So, it’s all about you and what you want Confused

Roussette · 10/04/2021 14:02

No idea if she would even be aware there are other channels than 1, 2, 3 and 4. She only talks about Bargain Hunt and Songs of Praise to me!

LyndaSnellsSniff · 10/04/2021 14:02

The OTT coverage just shows how out of touch the machine behind the Royal Family actually is. The complaints reflect the feelings of a proportion of the public and the two clearly don’t tally. Personally I love a bit of pomp and ceremony and despite my better judgment always manage to get sucked into watching Royal weddings etc BUT the non-stop BBC love-in yesterday was cringe-worthy.

Radio 4 yesterday was full of breathy tales from people who had met him and so many made jocular remarks about his rudeness, which were met with nervous laughter from the interviewers. Embarrassing.

Yes it feels like the end of an era but this past year has been entirely about the end of an era and with so much unhappiness and suffering around back-to-back broadcasting about the death of one person was way too much.

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JennyBond · 10/04/2021 14:03

Think radio 1 is the fastest at the moment !

First time I’ve listened to radio 1 in years, usually far too beepy for me! Although it’s got noticeably beepier in the last 30 minutes!

TempsPerdu · 10/04/2021 14:03

WTF is wrong with people?

History in the making and people moaning about missing pointless

So is the current bleak situation in NI, but it’s not currently getting a look in.

DelBocaVista · 10/04/2021 14:03

I'm embarrassed for you OP.

How ridiculous of you to complain.

ElephantsNest · 10/04/2021 14:04

I’m inclined to agree @TheVampiresWife

Mugginyouleftrightandcentre · 10/04/2021 14:04

DP and I both complained. Lots of our friends did too. Nothing to do with missing Pointless or Masterchef, neither of which we care about; it was just overkill, totally disproportionate and I don’t appreciate being told what to think or feel by the media. (Actually it’s more being told what I am feeling, with the whole narrative of ‘a nation is mourning’ - no I’m bloody well not).

Sorry, I didn't realise you were had been forced to sit in front of your TV, eyes clamped open with wire Clockwork Orange style, your brain forced to take in the indelible images of Prince Philip serving in the navy or on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with his family, the sorts of images you can never unsee, as you were brainwashed by the media into 'mourning'.

Truly traumatic stuff.

Triphazards · 10/04/2021 14:04

How do you know they're overwhelmed?

Does anyone read the complaints?

Schoolchoicesucks · 10/04/2021 14:04

2 channels showing the same coverage AND taking bbc4 off air was unnecessary. As was kicking visitors out of the RHS sites.

Didn't impact me at all as rarely watch live TV but for those of older generations who are less able to use the on demand channels, they should have been able to have a choice. For families who had planned a day out, they shouldn't have been forced to leave.

A nonagenarian died. Sad for those who loved him. I read one headline saying that "his death has sent shockwaves across the world". Shockwaves? Really? That a 99 year old who had recently spent a month in hospital died is shocking? How?!

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 14:04

That article on what will happen when the queen dies is just shocking. Appalling.

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justasking111 · 10/04/2021 14:05

@Roussette

For some people TV is their lifeline. Failing eyesight, isolated by covid, no technological ability to find other options, etc. Gutted for my MIL yesterday. Watching her programmes of an evening is one of her very few pleasures. To take that from her was cruel

Exactly. Flowers for your Mum.
People on here saying... go on iPlayer, go and watch something else, go and play a board game, you have no idea.
I do some work with Age UK ... there are many many people like @Bookrat s Mum. They are stuck at home, feeling very vulnerable and to have to watch wall to wall grieving before going to bed is unfair and mean.
The BBC could've put something else on one of their other channels. But no...

Well the age UK people I work with remember Philip as a young man, so not sure what your argument is. They want to see him remembered. I only know the stories they tell me about the royals back in their day.
FriedEggs1 · 10/04/2021 14:05

I couldn't give a flying fuck about him and neither could many more people, but they just won't have the balls to say that. I do. My balls are huge.

Nohomemadecandles · 10/04/2021 14:05

@Roussette Grin Totally not PP related but Bargsin Hunt gives me a really odd, unpleasant feeling. My husband loves it!

Roussette · 10/04/2021 14:06

How ridiculous of you to complain

Don't be embarrassed for the huge amount of people who complained. So many they had to set up a unique webpage. So the OP is not on her own

roarfeckingroarr · 10/04/2021 14:06

@CatherineMorland

So sad that people couldn’t cope with an afternoon off TV to honour a man who devoted his life to public service.
This
Macaroni46 · 10/04/2021 14:06

@Haydugi hardly 'history in the making'.
An old privileged man died and not unexpectedly. He was 99 ffs! Sad for his family but hardly going to change the course of history! Newsworthy yes, as in being included. But not this wall to wall wallowing!

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 14:07

It’s all over the media about how they are overwhelmed.

They’ve stopped taking complaints as such, you can now only register your complaint by putting in your email address. There were too many complaints to cope with.

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Quaagars · 10/04/2021 14:07

I'm not a Royalist or anything, but seriously, what do people expect?!
He's a senior Royal, it's to be expected.
It was exactly the same when Princess Diana died, wall to wall coverage, I'm old enough to remember it well - so what's different this time?
Bloody social media, far more easy for everyone to whinge and moan lol

justasking111 · 10/04/2021 14:07

@TempsPerdu

WTF is wrong with people?

History in the making and people moaning about missing pointless

So is the current bleak situation in NI, but it’s not currently getting a look in.

We get riots in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Belfast, and other places it changes nowt. Governments will not listen to anyone. They just blanket ban protests, nothing new.
trappedsincesundaymorn · 10/04/2021 14:07

And I also wonder how anyone who has recently lost someone is doing ? Will they find this endless coverage and sanctification adds to their distress ?

I can't answer for others obviously, but being made to feel obliged by the BBC (and even a poster who said it was a "duty"), to mourn somebody I didn't know, or care about, whilst still coming to terms with the loss of both my parents last year, made me feel like shit to be honest.

TheVampiresWife · 10/04/2021 14:07

Yes it feels like the end of an era but this past year has been entirely about the end of an era and with so much unhappiness and suffering around back-to-back broadcasting about the death of one person was way too much

I agree. The past year has definitely felt like the end of an era. In future history lessons I suspect that the modern era pre-2020 will be described as the Pre-Covid Era or somesuch. Life has changed immeasurably for almost everyone on the planet, on a micro and macro level. Definitely more of a watershed in history than the DofE dying at a ripe old age (and more than when the Queen dies, too).

Tbh I'd be delighted if both signified the end of an era with regards to the monarchy, which is an anachronism now more than ever.

Brefugee · 10/04/2021 14:08

9/11 was initially both channels then it was live on BBC2 and updates on bbc1 from what I remember

that was a one of awful event that literally changed the world for everyone.

And yes, PP saw service in WW2 so did plenty of other people. I have no problem with one channel showing programmes about him, people who want to watch it can fill their boots.

Perhaps there needs to be a bit of recalibration on the part of the broadcasters, particularly the state owned ones, about what people's wishes and expectations are at times like this and not the automatic assumption that the peasants will tug their forelocks and tune in to whatever shite they're putting out?

Roussette · 10/04/2021 14:08

@Nohomemadecandles
I'm with you!
My DH watches it sometimes and I say... what is the point of doing this to win £2.50!

@justasking111
I can't explain it any more than I have.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 10/04/2021 14:08

I’d have thought most people have Freeview now. You don’t need to pay for the likes of Sky or Netflix to have other options.