Repetitive TV about Duke’s Death

[Thisisnotreallymyname]

At a risk of being sent to the Tower, whilst I think it is sad that Prince Philip has died, am I alone in being amazed at the constant repetitive TV about his life.
It’s just going over snd over same old stuff. And I’d like to watch some normal TV !

IABU - YES
IANBU - NO

@Keyring

Geez - he wasn't Saint Philip

He should be made one.

Are you a failed royal correspondent for a failed obscure TV channel? Or an author who pens those sycophantic royal biographical tomes, reverently poring over, applauding and glorifying every last detail of their lives? Saint 🤣

Anglicans really aren't that big on the whole canonisation thing anyway. Far better chance of that if he'd hedged his bets with the catholics when he left the orthodox church.

BBC News' Martine Croxall (who broke the news earlier today) has had a bit of twitter spat with her former colleague Simon McCoy over this issue..

twitter.com/MartineBBC/status/1380609815756541954

It hasn't been 24 hours yet and won't kill us to have our TV programmes disrupted for a while. I've seen a couple of programmes and find them quite interesting, especially as they are not of the 'grovelling' type, and they are part of history which I love

exactly - I wasn't even going to watch beyond the BBC news at 10, but the program later on was really good, I didn't know half of that, he really has dome a lot but without the fanfare, and they finished with photos of him and The Queen looking at each other. I also think he's got a great, genuine smile.
She was genuinely happy with her DH, a true connection, I hope she can cope now.

@ICantBeDoingWithThis

I feel sorry for the Queen and his family but I knew when this day came it would be wall to wall coverage on every news channel and some others for days and weeks. No offence meant but I didn’t like the man, he made many many offensive comments over the years and all we’re generally hearing is what a great bloke he was. IMO he really wasn’t. He had an extremely privileged life (like most of the rest of the royal family I know) and he didn’t seem to have much compassion from what I could see and no sense of being a man of the people. I won’t be watching the news now until he is no longer featuring on it.

Watch the coverage. It might change your mind.

Watch the coverage. It might change your mind.

The propaganda is working then! Wonderful. 🙄

Being a man of the people is overrated.

@ohforarainyday

The whole saturation coverage is like something from a communist state - resembling North Korea - force fed propaganda about a dead privileged man

Completely agree. Many things lately indicate a slide into authoritarianism and the death of a free press - the police brutality towards peaceful protestors; the punitive and restrictive measures in the proposed new anti-freedom bill; the huge amount of Tory corruption and just non-stop endless Tory lies (Sunak and Cameron must be thanking their lucky stars Philip's death has distracted attention away from the Greensill scandal); the worrying revelations about the level of control the BRF have over the press and the incestuous mutual back scratching relationship between the tabloids, the Tories and the royals.

Britain is utterly corrupt and taking the first steps towards fascism.

The sense of enforced communal grieving for a relatively insignificant retired man most of us had never given a second thought about, the extreme hostility and abuse that greets anyone who is 'non compliant' - it is sheer Orwell.

But of course to the forelock-tuggers, we're all just brain dead chavs who can't forgo Corrie for one evening to "show respect."

Brilliantly put. I couldn't have said it any better myself.

Indeed

This part -

the extreme hostility and abuse that greets anyone who is 'non compliant' - it is sheer Orwell

is one of the ultimate aims of the recent flag-worshiping drive. It's a blatant and naked attempt to 'other' anyone who won't prostrate themselves in front of, or venerate the union flag. They'll be decried as "un-British" (an assertion which I'll gladly wear with pride), and declared fair game for ultra-nationalists to deal with as they see fit. See Trump and his 'with us or against us' bullshit, and his complete lack of interest in either admitting responsibility for, or the culpability of the idiots who went rampaging against 'liberals' in his name.

It's going to happen here, and it's ignorance that's enabling it.

The bottom line of this, wether you are a royalist or not. Is that a very old lady has lost her husband of 73 years.

@Badyboo

Don’t anybody buy a newspaper in the morning whatever you do

The vast majority of the country don't, and you're not compelled to by law should you want to read a different newspaper!

I thought the vast majority of people didn't watch terrestrial TV but here we are.

The real problem is , that we have no respect for anyone anymore.
We care more about absolute garbage on television, than the sacrifices someone has made for this country their whole life.

Scrutiny, abuse, all directed at you daily. How difficult must that be.

I saw one interview with Philip, where he’d explained, that it was really difficult, always being able to talk to everyone he met, always rushing around for different appointments.

People on Mumsnet complain because their television coverage is disrupted for a day.

This man fought in wars and lived life under scrutiny, his whole life

Think Captain Tom, who’d done that for his whole life, not just promoted as a morale boost by the media for a few months.

I do wonder at people’s reasoning

@Thisisworsethananticpated

Watch Netflix

You have to pay extra for that though, BBC licence payers should have had a choice on terrestrial tv to at least be able to watch BBC2 or BBC4 as an alternative.

@Eyjafjallajokulldottir

I've been binging line of duty to escape the coverage. It's great.

I did too.

Series 2 was just brilliant, I'd forgotten how good it was.

@LightGreenLeaves

Sorry, Captain Tom had done what for his whole life...?

@MissingMyOldLife

^The foundation that keeps the stability of our country?*

It actually does. It is better that the British people are loyal to a monarch than a megalomaniac president like Blair or another crap leader that we usually get. Haven't you noticed that we have a form for voting in utter tossers?

When we vote in tossers, we get a chance to vote them out again after a few years.

No such chance with the royals. And I think Charles is a tosser, with his attempts to meddle in government matters and promoting the environment and then flying to Scotland for his holidays.

He'll still get to be king though.

Belfast is currently on fire which is also 'history book making stuff' but we're not allowed to talk about that because a 99 year old man has, very expectedly, died

Quite. The hijacking of the public broadcasting service to cover the death of a very old man is sickmakingly sycophantic, and when it's done at the expense of broadcasting real news, it's absurd.

Fucking hell, Johnson could have introduced martial law yesterday and it would have been consigned to a footnote at the end of the news.

@Sparklingbrook

Don’t anybody buy a newspaper in the morning whatever you do. There might be pull out specials and all sorts.

Lol.

I wonder if the Guardian will have page after page of it? When Diana died, they had over 20 pages of Diana guff on the Monday. I was so disappointed in them, I boycotted it for the rest of the week.

I am looking forward to the next edition of Private Eye though. That should be refreshingly irreverent.

Peregrina

Agree with you absolutely. The Queen and her children would have known that the Duke's death was imminent and would have prepared themselves.

My father died in his early 80s after a long, eventful and largely happy life and 60 years of marriage. We were sad but it was a relief that there was an end to his pain and suffering. We celebrated his life and accepted that his time had come. It wasn't a tragedy, we weren't devastated. It was just a peaceful end to a great life.

It's not about him, it's about upholding the British establishment. He's a symbol.

@Cindie943811A

Just how is the excessive and repetitive tv programming supposed to comfort HMQ and the otherRoyals? Surely, like other bereaved people they don’t do their grieving electronically via a screen. We should have the freedom to mourn the death of public figures in any way and to any extent which we individually feel is appropriate. This isn’t North Korea. I have read that the deceased didn’t want a state funeral, which is just as well during lockup. So will he be permitted only 15 mourners at his funeral? That will surely mean some of the spouses of his children and grandchildren will be excluded. Might be some problems there.

I wonder if they'll go ahead with a full-on state funeral, with politicians flying in from all over the world, and not subject to restrictions like normal people?

@XDownwiththissortofthingX

Indeed

This part -

the extreme hostility and abuse that greets anyone who is 'non compliant' - it is sheer Orwell

is one of the ultimate aims of the recent flag-worshiping drive. It's a blatant and naked attempt to 'other' anyone who won't prostrate themselves in front of, or venerate the union flag. They'll be decried as "un-British" (an assertion which I'll gladly wear with pride), and declared fair game for ultra-nationalists to deal with as they see fit. See Trump and his 'with us or against us' bullshit, and his complete lack of interest in either admitting responsibility for, or the culpability of the idiots who went rampaging against 'liberals' in his name.

It's going to happen here, and it's ignorance that's enabling it.

👏 All of this. Every. Single. Word.

I complained. There was the same news programme on radio 1, 1XTRA, 2, 3 and 4. You would have thought the BBC was capable of tailoring each channels output accordingly. Longer news and appropriate music would have been better.

When we've got a 24/7 BBC news channels I don't think every other channel needs to be consumed by it.

Xdown... check your history - the British monarch is not allowed to marry a catholic - its a Charles 1/Civil War in C17. thing.