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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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DelBocaVista · 10/04/2021 14:20

[quote Roussette]@DelBocaVista, No problem, and thanks! Sometimes the quoting on here messes with my head Grin[/quote]
No worries

raincamepouringdown · 10/04/2021 14:20

@bonfireheart

National Mourning protocol set by whom?

When your parent dies you're expected to be back at work after two days and over your "mourning"...

Exactly
Roussette · 10/04/2021 14:20

Also surprised that people didn't realise the British Broadcasting company would devote one afternoon to broadcasting a major British event - death of a monarchy

Well... it wasn't one afternoon, they cut in with this about 11am so it was all day and all night.
I didn't know about the death of the monarchy though, there will be a lot of delighted subjects Grin

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HereBeFuckery · 10/04/2021 14:21

@Arbadacarba

No bugger ever cares that arsing football takes over WEEKS of tv schedules at a time

This bugger does! Grin . I can usually be found having a moan about that when there's a World Cup/Euro/FIFA whatever on.

Mind you, England matches provide an excellent opportunity to go shopping etc. and have the place to yourself.

Yay! Glad it's not only me grumping about 'the World Cup' (etc) being the dominant theme for weeks (notice no mention of which sport; many sports have a World Cup!) Had not considered coinciding that with a shopping trip, that's an excellent suggestion.
Andante57 · 10/04/2021 14:21

Not everyone can afford the paid options, which I'm guessing is part of why some are so frustrated. They've nowhere to go, nothing to do and now nothing to even see on tv or hear on the radio which isn't PP, or sanitised and mourning approved music.

If people really can’t survive one day without watching tv then I feel very sorry for them.
Is maybe reading a book completely out of the question?

KatherineJaneway · 10/04/2021 14:21

@Haydugi

WTF is wrong with people?

History in the making and people moaning about missing pointless Confused

I know right. Do they have nothing else but Corrie etc?
Supersimkin2 · 10/04/2021 14:22

Talk about looking cheap.. BBC must want to save their content for death of HM, hence the simultaneous repeats for PP.

I hope they’ll do a bit better for HM.

Quaagars · 10/04/2021 14:22

So shocking that so many people found the need to complain about the TV coverage of the Dukes death yesterday,.Not to just complain to themselves, but to actually write in to the BBC..

I personally think that's why there's been so many, or why we're hearing about it more.
Other times you'd have had to go to the trouble of as you say writing in - penning a Disgusted From Tunbridge Wells" type letter and sending it off to Ann Robinson Grin
Now you can bang off an email in seconds, create a MN thread, or take to Twitter and tag all the articles saying how excessive and unnecessary it all is.....

peepholepringle · 10/04/2021 14:23

@CatherineMorland

So sad that people couldn’t cope with an afternoon off TV to honour a man who devoted his life to public service.
Completely agree with this. It's pathetic.
Badyboo · 10/04/2021 14:24

Is maybe reading a book completely out of the question?

For my aunt, yes it is. But hey, she's just an 86 year old who lost her husband a few months back without being allowed to see him before he died, and just wants to watch her familiar soaps, so bugger her, right?

footprintsintheslow · 10/04/2021 14:25

@Haydugi

WTF is wrong with people?

History in the making and people moaning about missing pointless Confused

It's MasterChef I missed
Ickiness · 10/04/2021 14:25

There’s some miserable buggers on here, bloody hell!

TempsPerdu · 10/04/2021 14:25

Well it seems a lot of people just weren’t that interested:
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/prince-philip-death-bbc-ratings-b1829504.html

Itsalwayssunnyin · 10/04/2021 14:26

I honestly couldn’t find it in me to care enough to actually complain. I am always surprised by people’s outrage over things that just shouldn’t really be a problem.

I can’t imagine feeling compelled to complain about something like this. It’s so baffling that people use their time in this way.

Sparrowfeeder · 10/04/2021 14:26

I am more sad about a tree my neighbour cut down across the road than I am about Prince Phillip. Can we have multi-channel public broadcasts about the destruction of our natural landscape and the decline of our wildlife? So much more important than some over privileged randoms!

YetAnotherSpartacus · 10/04/2021 14:26

If it was VE Day again people would whine that it was all over the news.

Seriously.

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gallbladderpain · 10/04/2021 14:27

I'm embarrassed that people would complain! Of course this is completely what was to be expected when Prince Philip died. I'm pretty sure it was the same when Diana and the Queen Mother died.
For God's sake it's history.
If you don't want to watch it put on netflix or any other number of channels on TV or read a book, clean, do something else and stop being so damn dramatic about 24 hours of news coverage. There's been many events over the years which have warranted the same and there was not such uproar about them.

Mulhollandmagoo · 10/04/2021 14:28

@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.
I also pay a license fee and there's things on all BBC channels that I don't like to watch....so I don't!
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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 10/04/2021 14:28

It’s not about finding something else to do, or watching another channel.

It’s about the fact that the national tv service has been hijacked by an event that to a lot of people isn’t that important. Yet they are are being subject to something that the BBC believes is important.

It’s mainly irrelevant today. One channel for thise who want to watch it is fine. Every channel and media blackouts is propoganda

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userxx · 10/04/2021 14:29

@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. People seriously need to take up hobbies, are people really that obsessed with tv.

Siepie · 10/04/2021 14:30

If people really can’t survive one day without watching tv then I feel very sorry for them.
Is maybe reading a book completely out of the question?

If people really can't survive one 'historical event' without watching the same footage broadcast on four channels simultaneously then I feel very sorry for them.
Is maybe realising that some people have different interests than you completely out of the question?

SoupDragon · 10/04/2021 14:33

It's one or two days out of an entire year. 🙄

DelBocaVista · 10/04/2021 14:33

Propaganda 😂😂😂😂

Have a word with yourself

tinytemper66 · 10/04/2021 14:33

@WonkyCactus

Good. It's absolutely ridiculous to suspend the usual programmes on multiple channels for hours on end. I hope they learn from this for when the Queen dies.
I hope that restrictions will have been well and truly lifted and I have retired by the time she dies so I can go abroad and get away from it all.sad for the family but he was 99. He led a full and long life. A few hours coverage yes, but not constant reports back and forth from different Royal households. A good time to bury bad news.
Nohomemadecandles · 10/04/2021 14:34

It's all back to normal now so we can sigh in relief. 24 hours of inconvenience done with.

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