When CNNI was finally allowed to cut off their CNN US Impeachment non event simulcast, they had a surprisingly celebratory coverage of Brexit night. Richard and Bianca were in front of No 10, reflecting on the last 3 years while reporter Anna Stewart was at the Brexit party event, very enthusiastic, talking to the thrilled crowd and highlighting the fact people finally got what they voted for. Nic Robertson gave a more sombre view, pointing out potential negative effects.
“There’ll be Sky News over the White Cliffs of Dover...”
Quite an impressive sequence, but the music bed running throughout just felt... odd? I don't know if nat sound or commentary would have been any better. The nearest equivalent I can think of is late 90s-era Sunrise doing a "let's take a look back at some of the images of the day" over the extended theme tune to pad out time at the end of the programme.
“There’ll be Sky News over the White Cliffs of Dover...”
Quite an impressive sequence, but the music bed running throughout just felt... odd? I don't know if nat sound or commentary would have been any better. The nearest equivalent I can think of is late 90s-era Sunrise doing a "let's take a look back at some of the images of the day" over the extended theme tune to pad out time at the end of the programme.
It felt like much more of an event watching it on sky than anywhere else and I think the music bed added to that with the 1 minute of build up and 2 mins of aftermath. Letting the pictures do the talking for once instead of a presenter saying the obvious I think worked on this occasion its just a shame about the audio issues they had which spoilt it slightly for me. I like how they cut in the big ben bongs from Downing Street though maybe letting us hear all of them would have been good too and the word "left" on the Dover projection was hard to read but I'm nit picking. well done sky
Adam Hills will be shaving his beard for C4. That's about the only good thing about it.
I note that last week The Last Leg said that Lorraine Kelly would be a "roving reporter" for their special. However, instead of her, it was Tom Allen.
You have to admit choosing Tom was much better, especially after he got surrounded by the weirdos at the end of the show, with him begging the studio to collect him as fast as possible. Just brilliant.
Did anyone else feel a little uncomfortable about the Sky News 'goodbyes' in the various different languages with accompanying flags? It kinda goes against the whole "we're not saying goodbye to Europe, just the EU". thing. I was half expecting the UK to uproot and fly off into space at the end.
Did anyone else feel a little uncomfortable about the Sky News 'goodbyes' in the various different languages with accompanying flags? It kinda goes against the whole "we're not saying goodbye to Europe, just the EU". thing. I was half expecting the UK to uproot and fly off into space at the end.
Not really, it was only the flags of EU member-states, not all European countries, and similarly, hours earlier, the EU was lowering the Union Jack across Brussels openly infront of the camera's.
I actually think that the way Sky News marked Brexit was very poignant. It wasn't celebratory in my view, and wasn't focused on Parliament Square, which could have been seen as "grandstanding" brexit, it was very matter of fact, and quite literally a goodbye to those that only hours ago we were in a club with.