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US ELECTIONS 2020 Coverage

Moz posted:
Not sure why TV Forum no longer has a thread on the BBC News Channel. I wanted to comment on Beyond 100 Days (or whatever it's called) which is on the News Channel but nowhere to put it. So I'll put it here as they were covering the US election...

Christian was on the weather balcony from 9 until half past, and now seems to be in Studio C. Firstly, is this the first use of the weather balcony since COVID, and secondly, how far it it between the two. Did he just get the lift down?


45 days ago, Asa posted this. It was a glorious day for the forum. Now new and interesting information like that can be posted in new threads where we can all ponder the question.
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Coronavirus - Impact on live/recorded shows

Jonwo posted:
Pauline Quirke is currently filming a drama at the moment so it’s very likely she didn’t want to do the Birds special.


That seems to go against the comments made by Linda Robson saying that Pauline Quirke wanted to focus on her acting academy and move away from acting.
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US ELECTIONS 2020 Coverage

JasonB posted:
Asking as a neutral: Why are Sky and BBC News showing two different results for Biden at the moment?


Because Sky and the BBC (or whoever is supplying the relevant information) have made differing decisions on which states to call.
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US ELECTIONS 2020 Coverage

scottishtv posted:
The AP is fairly well-respected, and provides results to National Public Radio in the US (amongst many others):
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/03/928083390/2020-presidential-election-results-live


Indeed, just dropping in on the PBS coverage they explain how the AP use a lot of local knowledge in each state, and how they were (one of) the only people not to call Florida in 2000, hence why they use them as their source for calls.
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US ELECTIONS 2020 Coverage

dvboy posted:
Already some discrepancy in results. BBC, Sky and CNN all matching with Trump on 11 but some of the other channel including Al Jazeera and Euronews have Trump on 8 and Biden on 3.

This is normal depending upon who calls what. Even when the BBC were taking the ABC results in 2016, I believe there was some divergence at certain points during the night.
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The Chase | Beat the Chasers

Let's not forget that the first series of The Chase was a two week run (followed by The Fuse with Austin Healey for two weeks, which wasn't commissioned for a longer run). The first series was recorded in Manchester (unlike future ones), and only featured two Chasers in Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace. Because it was almost like a pilot series, quite a bit changed between the first and second series.
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

Sh1ruba posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
This is doing the rounds on social media - the BBC Sign Language interpreter reflects the nation's mood after Johnson's speech

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I know exactly how he feels.
Hoping he doesn't get fired for this.


I don't think someone who is paid for translating into BSL is going to be sacked for translating into BSL as requested.
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Linking up a black screen of death to TV

The USB to HDMI adaptors will apparently run in 800 x 600 if used via a USB 2.0 port, though I believe it requires a driver to be installed to work.
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

tightrope78 posted:
Markymark posted:
sjhoward posted:

Our Prime Minister has neither a degree in a dead language nor a science degree.


I can only actually think of one PM in my lifetime who had a science degree ?

The only PM ever to have a science degree.


Unless you count the Metallurgy degrees of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.
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New BBC social media guidelines

I don't think the BBC has handled this well. Tweets like:




paint the BBC in a very bad light.

The UK is joint fifth in Europe, with Portugal and Finland, on the Rainbow Europe 2020 rankings on LGBTI rights. Transgender rights in this country include the right to change your legal gender and name, the right to marry, enter the military, as well as anti-discrimination laws, and the right to access medical treatment as well as hate speech and hate crime laws in England and Wales.

The way the BBC has handled this leaves them open to the accusation that they're against trans rights, when the political debate isn't about the total abolition of the trans rights that already exist above, and is largely focused on the specific issue of self-identification.

What the BBC should be doing is expanding the understanding of the nation on trans issues; for example, surveys of public opinion on trans rights vary wildly because people don't understand the meaning of the jargon used to describe the various issues. The general population are woefully underinformed.

The restriction seems hugely unnecessary to me, and seems to have only fanned the flames against them without achieving much, if anything at all.
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I’m A Celebrity .... 2020

Whataday posted:
I don't see the problem with the logo. Soupnzi's right, it shows the castle amongst general foliage, not a jungle:

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And it's not entirely unrepresentative of the real location:

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And they have changed the sky to include some nice grey clouds, I like how they've done it.

That's not the entire title sequence in any case, so I don't know how anyone can come to the conclusion that it's "lazy" when they've not seen the whole sequence.
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

News96 posted:
As far as i'm concerned, Christmas is happening Pandemic or not! It's the governments which are going to have to accept that people will break the Rule of Six on Christmas Day and take it into account.


Not all of us are quite so selfish as you.