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thegeek5,105 posts since 1 Jan 2002
London London
Critique posted:
I noticed a couple of oddities on today's Andrew Marr Show, including with the pre-recorded interview with the Secretary General of NATO. There was a reference to the interview taking place prior to the London Bridge attack, but on the desk in the studio you could see the front page of today's Sunday Times?!

Presumably the questions were re-recorded this morning for continuity, but they'd even gone to the effort of putting the interviewee up on one of the big screens as if he was listening to Marr's questions there and then...

Perhaps there wasn't a TV studio available at the time the interview was recorded, so Andrew spoke directly down the phone to the guest's earpiece?
VMPhil9,986 posts since 31 Mar 2005
Granada North West Today
Andrew posted:
Must be a while since we’ve had a

“if the Queen dies what happens to... the election/Eurovision/the World Cup/Strictly/Good Morning Britain/the introduction of Reith to BBC News....”

On the forum

OK, but here's a serious question: if the Queen dies after she has recorded the Christmas message but before Christmas Day, does it still get shown?
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JAS844,196 posts since 26 Aug 2010
Yorkshire Look North (E.Yorks & Lincs)
Should've known this would happen. It wouldn't have been surprising if she HAD died, considering all the stress Andrew's given her in the last couple of weeks, and her age. But yeah, I won't believe she has until it's on proper news sites and not just social media.

That 8am thing is false, by the way. An article from a couple of years ago about a Queen's death hoax says this:
Quote:
Not everyone is aware of the debunkers, and many are mistakenly under the impression that news of a royal death could only be announced at 08:00, and that was the reason for the delay.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-38510353
BBI45911 posts since 2 Aug 2015
Central (East) East Midlands Today
VMPhil posted:
Andrew posted:
Must be a while since we’ve had a

“if the Queen dies what happens to... the election/Eurovision/the World Cup/Strictly/Good Morning Britain/the introduction of Reith to BBC News....”

On the forum

OK, but here's a serious question: if the Queen dies after she has recorded the Christmas message but before Christmas Day, does it still get shown?

"Lizzie RETURNS FROM DEAD to deliver FINAL Christmas message"


EDIT: Serious answer: Probably not. It'll likely end up archived. However, I reckon her heir would record a fresh message.
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RDJ2,789 posts since 25 Oct 2003
Central (South) Midlands Today
The Queen is Number 5 trending in the UK on Twitter now.

However the source is from a WhatsApp message that has a certain body part as a profile picture.

Let's just leave it unless we hear something a bit more credible.
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January 9th 1989 - December 3rd 2006
Rich Tea549 posts since 16 Apr 2017 Recently warned
Anglia (West) Look East
Meanwhile, an interesting tweet by John Rentoul about tonight's ITV debate. Very good point he makes.

Urging politicians what to do is quite clearly not the job of a supposed impartial moderator/journalist. He's right.