Election Night 2010

Seeing as the other thread has closed I'll post a few comments on the BBC General Election theme. It doesn't work for me. Arthur is so much better especially the 92 version which is timeless, dramatic and epic. The version of it in 2005 with synthesisers was very poor and has dated badly. Sometimes you just can't improve on perfection.

Granada had their studio lit red/yellow/blue - like regional politics show 'Party People' has been recently during the campaign - and had a news update from the newsroom.

That's really good.

Not from the Election set though.

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The final outcome was: Conservative 306, Labour 258, Lib Dem 57, Others 28 ... so not indicative at all then, despite the fact it was probably the most accurate exit poll ever

True but exit polls have been wrong in the past on a few occasions. It was after those debacles that the BBC/ITN put more care to make sure the exit polls we have now are more accurate. They've been accurate for quite a few elections now but if I were a politician I'd still wait for the results to come in.

Indeed, you still have to wait for the results, as was pointed out by Dimbleby when it was announced. However that doesn't mean that the exit poll is pointless or 'not indicative'... last night it justified their existence like never before

It was pretty much on the money wasn't it? Does anybody know how they've changed the questioning/sampling on the exit poll to improve its accuracy?

Actually I do keep a diary of what I do on a day to day basis, but there are some TV events or day trips/holidays I go on that I feel are worth sharing with others on forums.


Of course not, I'm 38 (I'll be 39 at the end of September). What I said was, the last time Britain had a hung parliament in February 1974, I was then a toddler, about 2 years and 4 months old. Just goes to show how (thankfully) hung parliaments occur once in a blue moon in Britain.

So how much longer must we enjoy (or endure) coverage of the election? Currently on BBC1, Breakfast (which goes on till 10am) is covering the hung parliament. Indeed right now they're looking at the papers. Later on, from 12:00 - 12:34 on BBC1 is Election Special with David Dimbleby . Is that billed in the printed Radio times/TV Times/other mags for today, or is it a change to the schedule made by the BBC in the last 24 hours arising from the hung parliament? In other words would that half hour programme at midday today have been shown had there been a clear victory of say 350 seats for Conservative (or Labour), or is it an extra programme they've had to put on just because of the hung parliament?

It was one of two changes made by the BBC at around 2pm yesterday afternoon arising from the hung parliament situation (as I reported earlier in the thread) - the other one was to have a 40-min nations/regions local news program at 12:35pm - 1:15pm.

This means that F1 Qualifying coverage which was meant to start at 12:15pm is now starting at 12:15pm on the Red Button & airing from 1:15pm on BBC One & the live coverage of a rugby league match between Huddersfield & Warrington is now out of the schedule (or maybe moved to the Red Button)?

Not quite - the Election special is at 12pm, local news at 12.35pm, the F1 starts at 12.45pm (12.15pm on RB) and then the Rugby League as scheduled at 2.15pm. The schedule on the BBC One website (where I'm presuming your info came from) is incorrect.

BBC Two's network schedule is reasonably fluid this afternoon so one would presume that the rugby could be shoved over to Two if something particularly significant needs to be covered on One.

Matthew Amroliwala and Kay Burley currently anchoring from Westminster on the NC and Sky respectively.

I'm sure the media will cover it until it's decided... and then not much after that point