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

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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.

I see there are plenty of condescending posts on here about the nature of afternoon TV just so posters can flag up their supposed cultural superiority. Sneering comments about programmes, inferring a lack of intellectual credentials
It's not sneering or condescending to observe that at the end of the day it's disrupting a couple of TV channels.
Nobody is saying that they don't watch TV, that TV is for uncultured people, that they're to superior to watch TV, just that in the grand scheme of things a few hours without normal broadcasting on a couple of channels isn't the sort of thing that gets us frothy.

Did you read the rest of the post?

It didn’t need to be both bbc main channels. One would suffice.

The point is we shouldn't have to turn off the television or radio.

This is about certain parts of society being unaccepting of others with differing opinions.

But Lola it wasn't a few hours was it?
It started about 10.30am and carried on all day and evening. Simultaneously on both main beeb channels

You could look at it the other way too @PandemicAtTheDisco and that people should accept the national TV station observing national mourning for about 12 hours.

In the grand scheme of things @Roussette that really isn’t very long

I just felt to me like the TV channels were trying too hard to make this a huge occasion for national mourning, when in fact it was a very elderly gentleman dying after a long and full life.

It warranted a piece on the news and some programmes about his life in the days/weeks following. It didn’t warrant a 24 hour news and TV schedule takeover.

I couldn’t be fussed to complain in writing, but I agree with the complainers that it was way OTT and cringeworthy. When you have hours and hours of TV filled with one journalist interviewing another journalist you know there is no real news story here.

One national tv channel- fair enough.
Not both bbc 1 and 2.
Nor is a banner on cbbc appropriate directing to news.
No need to remove bbc 4.

Respect could be shown without blanket coverage.

In the grand scheme of things @Roussette that really isn’t very long

I agree 100%, if it had been on one channel. Not the same on 1 and 2.

I think it’s the forced deference in general that people are uncomfortable with. It feels like a removal of free will. The girl at my local supermarket was pissed off this morning because they had to have sad classical music on for days instead of the usual chart music. And people think, why this man and not my dad/ grandad? Why this family?

Roussette
I've already said it's a bit much to be on BBC1 and 2 in my opinion, and that I think BBC news should have continued as norm, but it's still not that long in the grand scheme of things.
There are a range of other channels available and a few programmes being delayed isnt that bad if I'm honest.

But that will be the choice of the supermarket surely @Blah1881

And people think, why this man and not my dad/ grandad? Why this family?

Do they, really? People genuinely question why a supermarket doesn’t play sombre music when some random’s grandad dies?

I remember when the Queen Mother died people complained to the BBC that one of the newsreaders didn't wear a black tie but a purple one when announcing the news. I think this is a situation when the BBC can't win.

The bbc need a measured response
This was ott

And people think, why this man and not my dad/ grandad? Why this family?

Really? I very much doubt that.

What I mean is- lots of us have lost people during the past year, myself included. I’m not proposing Tesco play sad music for a week for my dad (chortle). But the girl on the checkout is thinking- why do I have to listen to it for a week for Prince Philip?

There are a range of other channels available and a few programmes being delayed isnt that bad if I'm honest.

Here we go again. Yes, the only thing that anyone finds objectionable is ‘a few programmes being delayed’. That’s all.

blah1881 I think the pandemic hasn't helped, after everything that's happened over the past year the last thing I feel like doing is to pretend sadness at the natural end of a very old man I didn't know. And I strongly resent the national broadcaster making the assumption that I want to forgo hearing about any other news, or deciding in my behalf that it would be inappropriate for me to watch sodding bargain hunt if I want to.

I think it’s the forced deference in general that people are uncomfortable with. It feels like a removal of free will

Yes for me it’s exactly this, and the suppression of any dissenting voices.

Don’t know if anyone follows the historian Janina Ramirez on Twitter, but she posted quite an angry sounding series of tweets late last night about how she felt the coverage of Prince Philip had been excessive, then ended up deleting them, implying that she’d been ‘told to’.

Think there’s an awful lot of thought policing going on at the moment - both self-policing and pressure put on public figures to stick to an approved narrative.

Same for me too.

We had some friends round last night sat in our garden (flippin' freezing!) and one of them is a total royalist. And we had some friendly banter about what the previous day had been like with coverage on BBC and - same as on here - she couldn't say why it was necessary to have both channels running the same programme simultaneously for over 9 hours.
Just that it was.

When Prince Albert died I think everyone wore black. I assume he was the equivalent (although much younger) version of Prince Philip. It is the tradition of a country with a Royal Family to have a period of mourning. Obviously things have moved forward and I assume the BBC won't do this as much when Prince Charles is on the throne, but the Queen is still very much a traditionalist.

Once she has come out of her period of mourning she may talk to the BBC/Government/Prince Charles and discuss what she would like to have in place when she dies, taking into account how people have reacted to how things have been handled with Prince Philip.

The mourning for Prince Albert was lead by Queen Victoria. It was much more the done thing to follow her in styles and actions. She was heartbroken when he died, and others took her lead as to how to behave.
It's not the same now, even the Queen won't expect us all to wear black and be visibly grieving for a stranger!

Here we go again. Yes, the only thing that anyone finds objectionable is ‘a few programmes being delayed’. That’s all.
But that's what it comes down to. People are objecting to the fact that when there's several channels available and a life beyond telly, the BBC have used standardised outputs for less than a day.
I've already said I have an issue with BBC News limiting news reporting for the day as they should be covering the day's news, but most of the BBC1/2 complaints come down to "but I don't like the royal family, some old guy died, why are they making a big deal of it, showing the same thing on 2 channels isn't fair".
There's life beyond telly, and it's not much in the grand scheme of things.

Once she has come out of her period of mourning she may talk to the BBC/Government/Prince Charles and discuss what she would like to have in place when she dies, taking into account how people have reacted to how things have been handled with Prince Philip.

The entire plan, together with code name, "London Bridge" for when the queen dies is already in place.