BBC coverage "mind-numbingly tedious"

[Happy82]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154222/Qu...

Where's Dimbleby when you need him? How the BBC's coverage of Queen's Thames pageant sank under a tide of inanity
BBC coverage TV audience of 10.3million with viewers peaking at 11.9million
Stephen Fry described coverage as 'inane' and 'mind-numbingly tedious' on Twitter in message re-Tweeted more than 1,000 times
Tory MP Rob Wilson describes BBC broadcast as 'low grade, celebrity driven drivel'
Sophie Raworth and One Show presenter Matt Baker led the coverage


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154222/Qu...

Ouch

[anonymous-user]

Very similar critisicm in today's Torygraph - which I fully agree with. B list Celeb driven rubbish - what's wrong with some nice OB of the event?

[Eric Mc]

Struck the wrong tone too much of the time.

[Pesty]

Has Matt Baker ever done anything other than mind numbingly tedious?

the guy is a moron with the insight of a small school boy.

platitudes and small talk is all he has ever done.

[loafer123]

Eric Mc said:

Struck the wrong tone too much of the time.

Worked for me, I won the game of cliche bingo.

[HarryW]

Agree something was lacking in the presentation and director/editorial control. It was not up to the usual BBC high standard for this kind of event, but to be fair it was a very tedious subject matter not helped by the weather. Have to say I only watched the odd 10 minutes here and there as it was so poor.

[Riley Blue]

It definitely wasn't the BBC at its best, hopefully lessons will have been learned.

[JMGS4]

Who the F*** were those idiotic presenters?? The majority of them wouldn't have passed their 11+ exams never mind being even able to speak the Queens english.
As for the so-called "celebrities".... a dustbin is the place for them at best.
The whole thing had absolutely no gravitas, no respect and certainly no class.... low brow rubbish obviously planned by NuLabia scum who want to run down Britain in any way possible.

Thank goodness the people who were enjoying taking part in the pageant didn't have to put up with those morons! The german ARD presentation of the event was much better!!! The BBC is simply not fit for purpose!!!

[davepoth]

Around about the point they had Fearne Cotton interviewing war veterans, I was saying to myself

"Gravitas...Gravitas."

[princealbert23]

Pesty said:

Has Matt Baker ever done anything other than mind numbingly tedious?

the guy is a moron with the insight of a small school boy.

platitudes and small talk is all he has ever done.

Well here is is dressed as one- I took this last Friday

[TonyHetherington]

princealbert23 said:

Well here is is dressed as one- I took this last Friday

That's unfair and is completely out of context.

Look at the kids behind him - they're all in period dress, as is he.

[princealbert23]

TonyHetherington said:

That's unfair and is completely out of context.

Look at the kids behind him - they're all in period dress, as is he.

Yeah probably so. I dont have an opinion on him one way or another. I just thought it a coincidence I snapped him dressed as one of 5 go mad in Dorset

[Eric Mc]

The BBC, is, of course, fairly "fit for purpose". That does not mnean they get things 100% right 100% of the time. Yesterday was one of those days when they struck the wrong notes too often.

[nelly1]

Mail Article said:

It was the BBC’s reputation as a peerless television broadcaster of royal events. It just could not survive under an onslaught of inanity, idiocy and full cream sycophancy uttered, muttered and buttered on thickly by a team of presenters who were encouraged to think that they were more important than the events unfolding around them.

Someone, somewhere thought that their celebrity personalities were enough to see them through this all-day broadcast.

How very wrong they were.

Pretty much spot on.

Article then said:

Meanwhile, as more incredible seafaring spectacles unfurled on the Thames, we were below deck on a historical ship with arch bores Sandi Toksvig, Griff Rhys Jones, Maureen Lipman and Omid Djalili.

This was the point I yelled "Oh DO fk off!" calmly switched over - however, as mentioned, Sky were not much different TBH.

[Randy Winkman]

The event wasn't really TV "material" in my opinion - especially in such dreary conditions.

[rpguk]

Agreed with it being a pretty tedious TV event.

I watched a little bit on sky news before switching to the BBC (and then giving up all together and going out )

[anonymous-user]

to me it felt like someone had died, there was no fun, no happiness.

[Mr_B]

Only watched a bit of it and thought it the same of most of these long and live TV events, such as the last Royal Wedding. There isn't a whole lot to say about some boats spending hours slowly crawling down a river.
They are nearly always far too long and have to be filled with boring chat. The only one that works is Rememberance Sunday coverage. Maybe they should have had some pre-recorded features about the boats and people involved.

[GWC]

davepoth said:

Around about the point they had Fearne Cotton interviewing war veterans, I was saying to myself

"Gravitas...Gravitas."

Then later on she was talking about a hat that was made by James Lock & Co "Oh my God the actual company who made Nelson's hat that he wore in the battle of Waterloo"

[Funk]

Happy82 said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154222/Qu...

Where's Dimbleby when you need him? How the BBC's coverage of Queen's Thames pageant sank under a tide of inanity
BBC coverage TV audience of 10.3million with viewers peaking at 11.9million
Stephen Fry described coverage as 'inane' and 'mind-numbingly tedious' on Twitter in message re-Tweeted more than 1,000 times
Tory MP Rob Wilson describes BBC broadcast as 'low grade, celebrity driven drivel'
Sophie Raworth and One Show presenter Matt Baker led the coverage


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154222/Qu...

Ouch

It's a Jan Moir article - no wonder it's full of bitterness and spite. I won't even lower myself to read what she writes. A thoroughly unpleasant harpy if ever there was one.