The Unicorn Tapestries: How We Buried the Queen
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2022
- The Queen is Dead, and on her dress the polka-dots collide. The media has been preparing for this for years, if not decades, so they better way have pulled it off. Who excelled? Who disgraced themselves? (spoiler: no-one, really, and the two right-wing idiot news channels) How did we make it through ten punishing days without losing our tiny minds? Did we? Find out, or don't!
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Another fantastic video, mindboggling how this channel doesn't get the views it deserves.
Really good overview. The things that stick out to me are probably the things too minor to mention, but are now in my memory:
1. Andrew Marr on LBC breaking down in tears as he announced the news.
2. The fact that Channel 5 announced the death of the Queen with a shot of two policemen attending outside the opening and closing gates of Balmoral.
3. The Royal Mint website going down because people were overthinking that their money would be worthless on the death of The Queen.
4. Relief/Horror over Boris Johnson's eulogy. Relief that he wasn't PM, horror over Liz Truss' speech.
5. The 5 minutes we didn't know if he was going to be Charles III
6. And finally, the Pres Café debacle over the continuity announcers not being 'middle class' and 'too ethnic'
Yeah, with No. 5, there was speculation he would take the title of George in honour of his grandfather, but Truss called it in her speech shortly after the Queen died. King Charles III it is.
@@stuartkenny7430 George VII would have been OK, but I think names with lower numbers work best. Lets face it, the French had how many King Louis'?
@@Blubatt Exactly, plus to go from Prince Charles to King George would be confusing for many, and times have changed. His Grandad went for George VI instead of King Albert, allegedly because Albert sounded too German. I imagine we'll get a George VII after William V, that's if we still have a monarchy by then.
I'm sorry, people on Pres Café said _what_
@@Rexowogamer That some of the continuity was either 'Not middle class' enough or 'Too ethnic', because they happened to have a bloke with a Black London/SE accent do one junction during the special programming.
Very well put together Matthew, I had been waiting to see what you would do from within minutes of the news breaking. For me it was an odd day, I was on airport standby and sat in the crew room at Manchester Airport, we had the TV on and it was on BBC1. I don't remember it cutting from Bargain Hunt to the news as I wasn't really watching it but then those of us who were on standby became hooked watching it and chatting, working out what was going on. A few of us, myself included admitted around 3pm that she must have gone as it was pretty clear that the Beeb were trying to ready us and soften the blow. We were all chatting away just after half six and as the screen showed a flag at half mast I shouted out "oh s*** here we go" and well, there it was. As for the aftermath, I was on holiday for most of the week of mourning and only got home the day before the Funeral, ended up being called out to operate that day so missed it...
I find it completely fascinating how the queen lived so long that TV managed to change at least 3 times, and had seen closedowns become a thing of the past along with so many things about British TV.
And that for the first time since the corronation it is no longer the dominant electronic device.
The queen's birth was probably announced with a telegram. The queen's death could have been announced with a Tweet.
Watching Painting the Forth Bridge right before this. Good set-up for the emotions.
I find those Channel 4 blocks in the corner more disturbing than any EAS ever made on UA-cam. No joke. An entity so usually full of personality just...there...dead.
Like Channel 4 itself in many ways
@@DigeeTheGenie We're definitely deep into the 'filler arc' of Channel 4 at the moment. Thankfully Film4 is still half-decent.
They have announced the axing of the big narstie show.
Well put together. GB News was a car crash, but nowhere near as much as Talk. Alistair Stewart did the best with what he was given, which wasn't a row of beans.
Channel 5's Emoji Movie was, in defence, part of a strategy to provide an alternative service to younger viewers. Channel 4 did exactly the same thing for Diana.
There's also a new problem now and that's Statmuxing. If both Channels 4 and 5 broadcast the funeral, the same pictures would be going out, simultaneously, on five channels. This is why BBCs 3 and 4 simply shut down rather than take the news broadcast.
I'm not sure how much the BBC knew during the afternoon, in any case it was blatantly obvious from the statement itself and the fact that the family were flying up that "This Is It."
Good job by Newsround! This is a fascinating docco, I really wanted to see something like this. I don't know what we did much in Australia, only the ABC did a Special Announcement at 3.30am. I knew it was bad as Huw had his black suit and tie on earlier (11-12am). Didn't sleep well that evening 🤣
We had the Front Bar on at work in Perth, and ten or twenty minutes into the show they abruptly cut to rolling coverage of the Queen's ill health. My manager got sick and tired of it quickly and we had to change to SBS's documentary about ALDI of all things. But I think I was the only one who gave a crap about the Queen's death at work, if nothing else than for what it meant to me. Shame not too many that I saw cared about the Queen.
Newsround is the best.
Here's what the commercial stations did
Nine took the BBC's coverage: ua-cam.com/video/ZfffeefnMgY/v-deo.html
Seven took Sky UK's coverage: ua-cam.com/video/uefqtik-02M/v-deo.html
Ten had Sandra Sully announce it: ua-cam.com/video/V5r1Uxh6C5E/v-deo.html
Seeing The Queen’s name in full on that BBC News Breaking strap and the fact that Charles and Co rushed to Balmoral ASAP and then the sight of Huw’s black tie and I knew straight away that The Queen’s life was moving peacefully towards it’s close. Even though “Mrs Robinson” actually snuffed it by then.
Good on Channel 5 for showing kid's shows. Were 6 year olds supposed to sit and watch a state funeral?
See now, your ITV in the face is STILL required viewing, and this is right along side!
An excellent documentary, alongside the ones for Philip and Diana. I was one of the five per cent, even if I had wanted to I felt so ill I wouldn’t have been able to lift my head up for long enough, so my memory is mainly watching how the networks turned The Queue into something less like a memorial and more like live from the Big Brother House. I really did half expect the BBC to employ the BB announcer to do some “Day 3 in The Queue. David Beckham is about half way to the front sharing his Greggs custard doughnuts but Holly and Phil have caused a ruckus by using the press line instead.”
The other main feeling I got was Paddington will never be the same again. Once you become the Grim Reaper it is hard to go back again.
19:12 "It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large". Smoothly done.
I didn't see this on TV live, as I was in Wimpy in Swanage. It was announced from Global's Newsroom on whichever commercial radio station was on in the background.
When they wheeled Huw in, it was pretty obvious. I haven't lived in the UK for almost 20 years and my God some of these people look so old since I last saw them!
I have just watched this and even three months on it reduced me to tears. Superb content.
Not sure it’s quite accurate to say ‘lessons had been learned’ from the DofE. Yes, BBC simulcast the news across its channels for fewer hours but this has more to do with the time of the announcement (6.30pm compared with 12ish last time). In both cases BBC2 stopped simulcasting at 6am the following day. I think also the fact there was a full expectation that HM would be blanket coverage for a time plus the level of public engagement with the news compared with HRH meant that people didn’t really notice BBC2 losing an evening’s prime time programmes (or indeed ITV, C4 and C5). In every other respect, coverage was far more saturated than for HRH. In fact BBC1 went more or less back to normal after 24 hours then. In HM’s case they didn’t show a normal programme til the Sunday night. The low level of complaints (some 600 compared to 100,000) shows this largely reflected the public mood or at least its expectation. Anyway, great account of an historic 10 days for broadcasting and this nation and Commonwealth.
I think some lessons were learnt. ITV stayed with the aftermath of the funeral for good couple of hours whereas the BBC came off pretty swiftly via that legendary sign-off by Kirsty Young, went to the news, I think ran a highlights programme after that, then showed Paddington 2 which I thought was unusually inspired scheduling from the BBC.
Excellent video. I'd actually missed all of this at the time, having decided that Netflix and UA-cam were infinitely more preferable options than watching a plethora of talking heads talking b*ll*cks for days on end, before I buggered off to France on my bike for a few days to escape it all.
We'll be going through it all again in a few years, but by then the BBC (if it hasn't been defunded) will have half a day of special programmes on the actual day on BBC1, followed a few days later by the funeral, and nothing else... ITV will have about two hours in between Loose Women and Tipping Point... Channels 4 and 5 will mention it in passing, and hopefully the likes of TalkB*ll*cksTV and GBeebies will be distant,. unpleasant memories.
An instant classic, one of your best, Feltz/protocol gag made me laugh out loud
A fitting overview. Although staff in the news channel gallery swear blind to people on Twitter that they only knew she’d DIED died when the PA wire broke it. I think it was just the slow progression of the day that meant it was obvious where it was going.
Yeah, I think they probably knew she was on EoL care but not sure exactly when she'd go.
@@TheGerkuman Are we still talking about Feltz?
Vanessa Feltz is clearly the most inappropriate person to have reading news stories since Robert Kee used to do the news on TV-am.
@@stuartkenny7430 slander on Robert Kee!
@@TheGerkuman Honestly, the ramshackle nature of TV-am News was like the BBC compared to the rank amateurs who run and operate Talk TV and GB News.
10:56 You mean to tell me they interrupted one queen to provide coverage of another?
Great video [As always.] But you forgot one thing. Her majesty was crowned in the B.B.C"s 51st year. Her majesty paseed in the B.B.C"s 100th year. At a time when this Ult-Right £ crashing government would like [In -truth] to end the B.B.C. This proves how important the B.B.C. Acttuually is. 2022 has been a good year for the B.B.C. Wimbledon The Proms Her Majesty Platenem jibilee. As I was taught in school and as Brexit has proven. You never know how good a thing is................................Until it is gone!
Superb, thank you.
But - did the BBC Radio 1 Dance station follow up the announcement with an epic beat drop (like they did right after their announcement of Philip's death)?
I remember hearing about it online it was around 12pm Midwest time it wasn’t shocking but definitely history making I felt at that moment I was watching history in the making the only other time I felt this way was when Kabul fell to the Taliban but that is a completely different matter
Wouldnt somebody at ITN have told Channel 4 to hold on before showing the start of Hollyoaks
can anyone tell me if the bit at the end with the synth jingle is based on something or is it specially made? 22:45
The image is a slide that the BBC kept handy in the early eighties, just in case it happened then. The former announcer Reg Sanders showed it on his Twitter page. The jingle is the theme to BBC-2's ident from 1979. The two don't naturally go together or anything, that's just me being silly.
The synth jingle accompanied the first computer generated ident in the UK. That of BBC2 from 1979 until 1986.
Notice the “aaauuuugghww” as durmont murnahurn makes his announcement
Although I am American, Showing the Emjoi Movie on a freaking Furenal of a inportant Figure is out-right disre-spectful
Kids were supposed to sit and watch a state funeral, were they?
cbeebies did absolutely nothing for the queen unlike what they did with phiilip lol
i haven’t watched one single big tv event since taking a break from fitting brake cylinders to a Datsun to watch Phil Collins & the guy from Chic play drums for Led Zeppelin at Live Aid but enjoy history none the less. 🐢
Can't wait until I inevitably hear about how Channel 4 and its networks handled the Queen's death. (cough cough 4seven cough cough Simpsons cough cough)
'that counts as grieving'
Unless you're online, then people get upset with you for both acknowledging the fact that you felt anything at all AND for not grieving enough. :v
Where did you find that slide at the very end of this video?
The former BBC announcer Reg Sanders uploaded it on his Twitter. It was used, or would have been, back in the NODDY days.
I don't understand why the music over that '70s slide is so jovial.
I'm American and I found out about the Queen after taking a 3 hour nap and getting an alert on my phone. It was probably around 2 pm my time. And really Channel 5?? The Emoji Movie??? Instead of the FUNERAL???? So disrespectful.
They are owned by Viacom/CBS/Paramount.
@@GeoNeilUK Yeah, but the movie was a Sony release. Two different corporations.
At a time when even CBBC couldn't stop talking about it, kids were supposed to sit and watch a fucking funeral, were they? Good on Channel 5 for providing something for them.
@Ceej_OPC Well, it was during the channel's alloted kids' programming time. It's just that the choice of film (which I don't think was their decision) probably came out of nowhere. A lot of people hate the Emoji Movie, you see.
a problem i had with the bbc during this point: every single news programme just shoved news about the dead queen in your brain. "oh, she's lying in state!" "oh! this important person just paid their respects to the queen!" "oh! people are leaving flowers at buckingham!" like seriously, they could of atleast shown SOME normal news during the middle or lasts bits of the morning period, but whatever
"Ramshackle" is a good way of describing Channel 5. No offense to them, but they seem to often be the butt of the joke with people who work for other channels.
I mean, aside from the rampaging racists of GB News...
There was a telling interview with the Chief Exec of Channel 5 in the RadioTimes about a month or two ago where he said that his constant interfering with the schedules (in normal times let alone during a national event) was what caused the RadioTimes to relegate the Channel 5 listing off the main two pages of daily listings as a kind of punishment.
@@colinr0380 Why was he so indecisive? TV Scheduling is hard, I know. But to do it so much that the Radio Times has a go at you? Damn.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer He was perhaps *too* decisive and hands on, and actually proud of that behaviour in the interview, saying that it showed how he could 'respond at a moment's notice' to changing things on the schedule.
I guess it happens everywhere to some extent but this Chief Exec was even doing it with prime time programmes too, or leaving series half-finished because they were not getting the expected ratings to replace them with something else without warning mid-way through. I think that was what caused the 'punishment' from the RadioTimes more than anything, because they might highlight a series in their pages and then be the ones who would get the complaints from the viewers when only two episodes got shown!
So that's one of the reasons why Channel 5's listings got bumped off the main two pages for the more stable BBC4 to take its place!
@@colinr0380 is this Ben Frow? He's made some very odd decisions. Dropping Neighbours I get, but trying to slowly strangle Home & Away without being able to actually kill it due to the lifetime deal looks very uncomfortable (in 2021 the evening showing was axed so it's now shown only at lunchtime, and during the mourning period, episodes were relegated to the Potato Vision of 5 Star.)
The same Channel 5 that aired Pearl Harbour last Christmas Eve. (Although, I think it was some belated memorial of the tragedy).
The only justifiable reason why C5 aired The Emoji Movie was for something a little lighter for the children to watch because a funeral isn't something that would be pleasant for a child to watch.
Baffling decision to cut CITV to air the funeral, at least the BBC offered an alternative for children who felt rather glum over the news.
The Queen’s funeral was watched by over 5.1 billion people across the globe
No it wasn't.
It was estimated to be closer to somewhere between 3½ to 4 billion.
@@stuartkenny7430 I heard 4 billion in a few places.
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