General Election Thread

Bear in mind that the BBC have been doing weekly OB's in debate style for the past 20+ years so they're naturally bound to be the most capable - but I sincerely hope their effort lives up to the hype.

Dimbleby is also a natural in the job - Stewart was too cold and self-important and Boulton was just an arsehole.

The BBC has the licence fee funding the studio.

Sky must be delighted with the coup they got today and Murdoch must be even happier.

That reminds me, didn't Boulton back in his TVAM days cause a fuss when he managed to get a comment from the Queen herself on something? (Yep The 'Duchess of Brenda' herself! (I am right about the joke aren't I? Wasn't it a joke from Stanley Baxter ISTR?))

Can't remember the details, just the fuss!

Just a hunch... Channel 4's alternative election night programme?

Nope.

This 3-way swingometer to be shown on ITV's Election programme looks like an interesting evolution...

http://i40.tinypic.com/2941jzk.jpg

Details in MediaGuardian.

It looks like one of the games in It's a Knockout.

I'm surprised there's not someone dressed as a gonk behind her with a bucket of coloured water.

Just been having a look at the schedules for next Thursday. It seems that the Election Night programme will get a Saturday repeat on BBC Parliament (from 6.55am). Also, BBC Alba will have a results programme on Friday afternoon (An Taghadh 2010).

Also of interest next Thursday: In Parliament Assembled, a 1959 archive programme explaining how Parliament works to American viewers. It's on just before election coverage begins on BBC Parliament.

Though Question Time hasn't been made by the BBC in-house for many, many years.

The Debate production team (BBC) and resources team (SIS Live) were totally different to the regular QT team (Arqiva and Mentorn Midlands) though I suspect some of the camera and sound team that were working for SISLive (who provided the Debate facilities - and include the former BBC Outside Broadcast Resources dept.) will have worked on Question Time when it was in-house (MANY years ago!)

Does have a slight "It's A Knockout" feel - with coloured water as a scoring system!

RTÉ's election coverage this year will indeed run longer than usual, from 23:45-04:00 with a second programme from 08:00-09:00 on Friday.

But according to UPC's EPG...UTV are just running ITN's coverage on Election Night? The first UTV programme isn't till 09:30? UTV are hardly going to not cover the local counts until then??? Surely that is just handing over the NI audience to the BBC and RTÉ???

The point of the swingometeter is that it is a very simple, very effective way of visualising what is happening with a universal trend between two parties. Introduce a third party and basically it cannot work.

You should be able to look at election graphics and immediately have an understanding of what they are saying.

I haven't got a bloody clue what that ITV graphic shows. It's gimmicky.