Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is in hospital

I'm getting quite confused if people are discussing what will happen if the Duke of Edinburgh dies, or when the Queen dies

They will be very different situations, yet people are talking as if its the same situation in both cases

Also clearly Diana's death was different again as she was a young women, neither The Queen or aged 99

I beg to differ. "In a change to the episode billed in some listings magazines".

Anyway fiction imitates real life sometimes, wasn't it Coronation Street who had a storyline in the 9pm slot (I think it was when it was sandwiched between two episodes of BGT) and they had to tone the sequence of events in Corrie down because it was getting too close to an event going on in real life?

A flatmate you can talk about idents and scheduling with? Where do you find these people?

You must have missed the TV Forum Dating site, You could filter potential matches by favourite ident, and match further by which continuity announcer you'd want to officiate your wedding.

Andrew is quite right. The manner in which the deaths of the Duke of Edinburgh and Queen are handled will be markedly different.

One thing being overlooked in this 'discussion' is that the death of the Queen involves the accession of her successor. For that reason alone the coverage of the Queen's death will be unique. Charles will become King. The Accession Council will meet. Oaths will be sworn by all Crown appointees (the Judiciary, MPs, Lords, serving members of the Armed Forces, etc). Parliament will be suspended before being reconvened. And that's only in this country. There's Australia, Canada and every other Commonwealth realm and territory. Expect the coverage to be like nothing that has gone before.



No. They'll drop all shows. Schedules will be torn up.

"Coming up later tonight the wedding of Fred and Wilma Flintstone at 7:30. Before that now in the church of Oneness, its Barney and Betty, I proclaim you husband and wife."

I know someone who had the Grandstand theme play, as everyone left the church to go outside

Was that the occasion when E & R speculated that an announcement was about to be made regarding Theresa May's health, then had to row it back?

The Queen's death is indeed on another level from anything else. Utter schedule destruction could well last until the funeral, if not beyond, if only because there will be all of these other "breaking news" aspects to handle. (Which was a large part of why there was that level of schedule destruction after Diana's death - because it was a daisy-chain of new news breaks from the nature of the funeral to "will the Windsors return to London?" to Henri Paul's blood alcohol level.)

With Philip? It's the Queen Mother all over again but likely to be treated as bigger because of being the actual spouse of the monarch (hence apparently Category 1). There was also IIRC some downplaying for Queen Mum because 9/11 was recent enough to make everyone go "maybe we shouldn't go overboard here" but long enough later for plans to be changed - of course we're in a similar position with COVID now except that event is ongoing by its nature. Part of the fascination for me from the presentation perspective here is that we genuinely don't know quite how immense the televisual reaction will be seen to be, and even if we did we can't find out how people will react to it until it happens.

I think that was the Cumbria shootings in 2010. Not sure if they edited any scenes but IIRC the episodes were put back a couple of days at least.

God forbid a journalist speculating(!)

The Palace has confirmed for the first time that Prince Philip is being treated for an infection. The Queen's 99 year old husband is "comfortable and responding to treatment" says a royal spokesperson

— Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) February 23, 2021