Irish broadcaster RTÉ will have live rolling coverage of the UK GE results from 11pm to 4am this Thursday night & from 9am to 10am Friday morning on RTÉ One. The presenters for Thursday nights coverage will be Bryan Dobson, Miriam O'Callaghan & David McCullough. Aine Lawlor will then present a hour long results programme giving further full analysis of the results on Friday morning.
It was an 'Everything But Brexit' debate, saw it trailed earlier.
I've not watched any of the debates this time. They were a novelty back in 2010 but have quickly proved to be much less useful and relevant than individual leaders interviews. So naturally, our prime minister has avoided some of those.
I switched off halfway through, for a number of reasons, one of them being it was poorly produced.
I think rather like local TV and a really compelling and entertaining nightly chat show at 22:30, election debate programmes are a genre that simply don't work in the UK.
It was an 'Everything But Brexit' debate, saw it trailed earlier.
I've not watched any of the debates this time. They were a novelty back in 2010 but have quickly proved to be much less useful and relevant than individual leaders interviews. So naturally, our prime minister has avoided some of those.
I switched off halfway through, for a number of reasons, one of them being it was poorly produced.
I think rather like local TV and a really compelling and entertaining nightly chat show at 22:30, election debate programmes are a genre that simply don't work in the UK.
Obviously based on the concept of the Presidential Debates in the US which have been running I think since the 1960s, the concept of which works there because there's only two parties who can go to the White House, plus of course it turns into a who can shout the loudest contest because of course everything has to be bigger and better in America.
Over here we start doing seven way debates, try and cram them into 90 minute TV slots and then wonder why they don't work when everybody starts talking over each other and nobody can hear a damn thing. Seems like they are here to stay. Perhaps as was mentioned either here or in another thread if they didn't look like modern game show sets it could help but I'm not saying they have to go back to a style reminiscent of 1980s Bullseye (although in fairness after 1986 that set still looks relatively neat) but there is probably such a thing as over production.