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2019 General Christmas election.

12th December: NO drama just presentation. (October 2019)

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A former member
I wish that awful man with that awful laugh would shut the hell up.
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BFGArmy
And now a quickfire round! Spare me.
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A former member
Awful man returns again...
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Jonwo
If you think it’s bad, Imagine what it would have been like if they’d have thrown a third voice into the mix.


It doesn't bode well for the two hour debate ITV have in a week and a half.
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Markymark
Jonwo posted:
If you think it’s bad, Imagine what it would have been like if they’d have thrown a third voice into the mix.


It doesn't bode well for the two hour debate ITV have in a week and a half.


Has any TV debate on any channel ever produced an election turning point or crash and burn moment?
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bilky asko
It's not going down well on social media either.

A lot of folk are saying that Julie was completely the wrong choice of person to moderate it.


The problem is that the duration is too short and the format too tight to allow much deviation - Julie has to maintain the pretence that Brexit is somehow completely separate from every other topic.
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Steve in Pudsey
Certainly an argument for having traffic lights on the podiums indicating a time limit and having the candidate's mic cut (and maybe their key light dim) when the time expires.
Stuart, JamesWorldNews and SuperSajuuk gave kudos
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W1LL
ITV never seem to hit the mark with these debates. They tried to fit too many questions in and it left no time for actual debate.
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fusionlad Founding member
Sky News have only just managed to go back to Salford. Few teething problems still going on, looks like a dodgy 3/4g link.
Also sound issues.
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dosxuk
I was watching on YouTube (but after half an hour have given up as it's all too tedious) so I'm not sure if a few of the weird things that have happened so far were YouTube quirks or not?

At the start when Julie was stood between Johnson and Corbyn there was a good five seconds of music playing where it felt like it should have cut to a title sequence, but didn't and then instead eventually cut to a shot of the audience or something, and then very quickly after one of the set, where the trio were suddenly all stood behind their individual podiums, having presumably sprinted across in the second or so they were off-screen?! There was no titlecard, which makes me think it was a mistake as that would have covered the transition much better?

Sounds like a fault on the YouTube feed - on TV there was definitely a title sequence and no awkward gap.


Could be a rights issue with the titles and YouTube, or its coming from a different feed that doesn't include those elements.
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all new Phil
Found it very frustrating to watch. They’d each start answering a question but be interrupted before finishing. They should have been allowed to argue it out between them without the constant moderation.
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Jonwo
It'll be interesting to see how the BBC debate on the 6th is like in comparison.

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