TV coverage of the Thames Pageant, what did you think?

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Anything to try and get someone at the BBC kicked for this totally dismissive and most shambolic broadcast.

How dare they assume the viewing public for this type of event has the IQ and the attention span of the audience for the bulk of their increasingly downmarket pap.
 
The fault really must rest at a fairly high production and editorial level. Love 'em or hate 'em, the presenters are doing what they are told, by and large, and having been briefed that this was to be a super-sized One Show with little emphasis on the actual boats, I imagine that they felt no need to bone up on the boat histories, etc. Would have been good if they had learned the correct way to describe The Queen, though. And realised that this was not about them...

Why have Tom Cunliffe? Someone must have known he has a passion for old working boats but he just did not seem to either have or take the opportunity to impart this to the audience.

I went to a party on Monday and everyone (not one of them boaty) was moaning about the lack of coverage of the boats and the lack of information and histories that could have been told. So I am sure this gripe is not just from those of us that visit this forum.

Although the producers and editors bear responsibility, what is astonishing, is that these presenters who can't be inherently dim to get themselves on the box in the first place, descended to the level that they did and seemed so ready to lower themselves for the sake of banal entertainment.
 
oldgit said:
Not single person I have spoken to who did not have something to do with the Pageant has mentioned even in passing,that they were unhappy with the coverage.
Very tiny percentage of UK population will know someone with a boat,even fewer ? people would have known somebody involved with the flottila.
Unless very determined,few people outside the boaty world of the Southeast would have found a detailed boat by boat commentory of any interest at all.
The Queen could have gone across London on a Boris bike and still attracted the same amount of public attention.
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Of course they weren't unhappy, why would they be if the BBC didn't tell them how much they were missing!
 
oldgit said:
Missing what .... boats going down the Thames and complaints from people who could not be bothered to make the time to be there ?
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Were viewers watching around the UK/world expected to make it to the pageant? Not everyone lives in the Southeast and perhaps the majority of spectators there on the day would not consider themselves boating people but it didn't stop them coming to watch, or return home to catch up on the days event.

As for the BBC, they don't appear to be apologising, just offering a 'response' to the complaint, rather looks like shutting the door after the horse has bolted! As the clock can't be wound back I prefer the 'Your Fired' option.
 
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there maybe an option left for the bbc to get put of the mire.
they surely have all the footage on file.
why not just compile another programme this time with all the footage people would like to see with appropriate sound from a knowledgeable boaty type person.
I kmow it would not be live ,but anything is better than nothing.
It would go long way in thanking all the people who put so much effort to get there .I saw one boat had come from New Zealand and several disabled people who had come a long way.
regards geoff
 
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