14-09-2022, 11:30 PM
(13-09-2022, 04:04 PM)TVFan Wrote:(13-09-2022, 01:11 PM)gottago Wrote:That makes sense, especially as on the day The Queen died, some of the programmes on ITV2 had parts which people may have took offence to (specifically, in an episode of Bob’s Burgers, one of the buildings in the intro was called ‘Don’t Stop Bereaving’; and an episode of Family Guy was all about a main character dying). Although that time it wasn’t really noticed, if it happened again, they could get very bad publicity.(12-09-2022, 06:45 PM)TVFan Wrote: On the day of HM The Queen’s funeral, ITV will be showing the same programmes (including uninterrupted coverage of the funeral) on all it’s channels, though I doubt CITV will be included:
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Been thinking about this and I wonder if the main reason for this happening is they don't have the time, manpower and indeed willpower for their compliance team to go through literally every programme on 4/5 channels to double check that nothing accidentally offensive will be broadcast on such a hyper-sensitive day. Particularly if the ratings for the channels will be so low anyway.
I've heard a lot of commissioners are having to rewatch many hours of their shows again to double check for anything that could possibly be misconstrued as offensive or inappropriate related to the royal family.
Better just to air what's on the main channel that risk anything, and better than a blank screen too.
Wouldn't it be better to just close the channels instead? Have them displaying a caption asking viewers to switch over to one of the main channels, in this case it would be telling them to switch to ITV.
Having the funeral on so many channels at once just seems redundant, I imagine most are just going to tune in to one of the main five to watch it.