To hope that not every TV channel is wall to wall coverage of the queen's death?

I think you are wrong about lack of choice. Most people have more then just BBC 1and 2 , ITV 1 etc . We don’t have satellite TV or anything special and at the moment ITV2 and ITV3 show ordinary programs, usual coverage on Drama and 5 USA and there are others. Plus many people do have Sky, Netflix, BBCplayer, Disney +, Amazon and even YouTube. So enjoy your holiday and don’t worry about anything.

t times like this I channel the great Buzz Lightyear

"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity." ...

I did shed a tear when hearing the news, surprisingly, but I certainly have no interest in watching wall to wall coverage after this evening, though I’ll watch bits of it. It always goes well OTT, particularly on the BBC.

There are other channels to watch, though, like ITV3, which I will be watching as I regularly do.

Back when Diana died, there was no escape from it at all, there was wall to wall coverage on the terrestrial channels and nothing else.

It's not all about you. Have you heard of films or books?

Really OTT

Or just going to work or a walk !

It always happens at times like these. Get Netflix on, it will be back-to-back royalty for the next few days. I’ll be switching off, I’ve seen the news today and it’s all very sad but that is truly enough for me.

She managed 70 years of service and people are whinging they can't manage one evening off normal TV.....Nice!

The monarch and head of state just died, and we are about to have the last full state funeral probably in history. You're never going to see anything like this again in your life, this won't all happen to the same extent for Charles, William or anyone else born after her time or who was not the longest serving British monarch in history. This is a major historical event, and a major event for the UK

She managed 70 years of service and people are whinging they can't manage one evening off normal TV.....Nice!

But honestly I don’t really care. Sad when anyone dies to an extent but she’s not a saint. She didn’t just ‘manage to serve’ she lived a hugely privileged life not wanting for anything and lived to 96. And oversaw a very dysfunctional family. Nothing against the woman, she’s seemed pleasant enough. But so does Barbara up the road.

Lots of people live a life of service.

My DM lived a life of service, and has spent her retirement volunteering and caring for others.

And she'd have loved not to retire, but unlike the Queen, she did a job that over the years injured her body to the point she is now crippled with arthritis.

70 years of non-manual work, living in a palace with servants on tap, being paid by other people's hard labour, I think a lot of people would be up for that.

I have just looked and it looks like news special all day and evening on BBC1 but it looks like BBC 2 has a fairly normal offering today including what looks like yesterdays Eastenders at 7pm, I suspect programmes will be shunted to BBC 2 next week like when sport is on

ITV is news special all day then what looks like a fairly normal offering this evening
channels 4 and 5 look fairly normal

this was on the Sky programme guide

This reminds me of when Princess Diana died and my 8 year old sister complained because her favourite tv show had been taken off air. But she was 8 so it’s understandable she didn’t get the need.

nobody is forced to watch anything but for the next 10 days then things are rightly going to be focused on the Queen.

To not have coverage of this historic occasion 24/7 for at least three months is nothing short of treason! To the tower with the naysayers.
Stimulants should be pumped directly into Huw Edward's and Clive Myrie's cerebral cortex, to keep them awake on contionuous rolling shifts, emoting on our behalf.

As pathetic subjects of her most Glorious Majesty, we may feel grief but cannot express it as fully, and succintly as those improvising in front of a castle, reading hastily compiled autocue scripts, replete with adjectival punch, pith and doggeral (whatever that is), or wearing black tights and Marks and Spencer longsleeve, 100% cotton shirts of darker hues.

..I personally also find it difficult to maintain a furrowed brow for more than two hours a day, withou the use of sellotape
If you hate Britain, or the Royal family, take a long hard look in the mirror, punch it (aka your wooden face), replace the mirror and do it again. (Ikea have a range of affordable choiuces in the Fkorp and DSenge ranges).
Futanari, CS compilations, and Cash in the Attic, have a time, a place, but this is not it. If it's not The Queen slash King get it off the air.
(...although twenty minutes of Rastamouse on BBC2 at four thirty would be fine for the little ones...)
God save the King!