To think the BBC coverage of the flotilla is total crap

[RabidAnchovy]

They really are making a pigs ear of it.

I want to see the boats (try and spot DPs dads boat)
not listen to all the crap from this presenter and that presenter and bloody poems,

And it was the 9am debate on radio 5 live this morning!!

Utter tosh bbc bet you dont fuck up the concert tonight!!

Oh dear god I found myself nodding in total agreement with the Daily Mail. The comment at the bottom which said they managed to turn an historic event into a One Show special was spot-on.

Do you think they should just show these events with no commentary at all? I think I would prefer it TBH. Just hit the 'mute' button.

But unfortunately there is no button to press for 'skip the stupid presenters'.

I think Phillip Schofield is going to cover some part of something this weekend but don't know what.

Intelligent commentary would be better. Ones with interesting historical facts about the boats or the monarchy rather than Tess Daly talking about cakes. I think I came away from the BBC programme knowing less than when it started.

Tess's hat was a pineapple apparently then?

I wonder who is presenting the concert tonight?

I thought Tess's hat looked like a cow pat

Here. They aren't giving anything away presenter-wise. But Lenny Henry is mentioned.

couldnt get on mumsnet hesterday to comment on original post. or even read it,
but i was disapointed not to be able to see the boats, ididnt want to see the presentes. my mum was on a boat and everytime i nearly thought i might see her boat, they went to a presenter, grr [angryj]

I vote for SeventhEverything as the new director of the BBC.

According to the Torygraph each section was headed by a boat with a band on it playing various things from Handel's Water Music to sea shanties. And did we see it? NO. Apart from a few shots of the Royal Marine Band and the soggy singers at the end. What a disappointment.
I am Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

We needed a Dimbleby. Instead, we were palmed off with Fearne Bloody Cotton! This is what dumbing down gets you.

Pah!

The Daily Mail were spot on.

Now that's not a phrase I use very often.

Emily Maitilis is on BBC news at the moment. She seems very good. She is at Buck House looking at the picnic hampers. V swish Waitrose/Heston Blumenthal creations.

I'm afraid I simply cannot stand the Dimbleberrys. I agree fearne C etc al were crap though.

OMG - I agree with the DM.

I never thought I would say that.

On the music thing: Sorry to repeat and name-drop but my sister Anne was one of the composers of the re-working of Handel's Water Music. Ten music barges, each with a composer conducting his/her own piece.

I was very excited and watched the whole thing. Did we even see ANY of the music barges (apart from the LPO at the end) and hear a single note of any of the music? NO.

Total crap, BBC. Total crap.

So...we get our first main look at the flotilla. So...what does the BBC do? Cuts away to Tess bloody Daly. And then John Sergeant with poems on Westminster Bridge. Then Fearne Cotton and paintings on bridges with Anneka Rice.

I wanted facts about the people in boats. I really wanted to see and hear my sister. Booooo.

They don't make commentators like Lt.-Commander Woodrooffe anymore...

DH was so appalled by the coverage that he switched over to Fox TV to have a look at what they were doing. Apparently they kept banging on about how the Queen was "coronated" 60 years ago. Twats.

I promise you, the tv coverage was better than being there in the flesh!! SAW NOthing!! grrr lol

*On the music thing: Sorry to repeat and name-drop but my sister Anne was one of the composers of the re-working of Handel's Water Music. Ten music barges, each with a composer conducting his/her own piece.

I was very excited and watched the whole thing. Did we even see ANY of the music barges (apart from the LPO at the end) and hear a single note of any of the music? NO.*
LapisBlue exactly. The music (as promised) was one of the reasons I wanted to watch it. The BBC haven't even provided a decent record of the day for the Queen. I hope she had a memebr of the family on stand-by with the famous cine camera.

Prince Phillip has been taken to hospital according to another thread.

Bladder infection according to the BBC. Maybe he didn't drink enough yesterday (all that standing around)!

You never know, he might be pleased to have got away from the Jubilee Concert Poor Queen.