There's not much else I can say that hasn't been added already. In this era of streaming VOD, customers would expect to have access to their favourite shows regardless of a period of national mourning.
It's no different to a viewer putting on a film on VHS during the week of mourning during Diana's death in 1997.
Even if you put aside the various on demand options, every TV viewer now has access to at the very least Freeview, so there are already far more options for non-royal related programming than just channels 1-5 that most people had in 1997.
The Shopping channels seem to stop for Remembrance Sunday (sit-up definitely did) and I'm sure QVC stopped for a while in 1997 after Diana died, but whether any of the smaller ones would do so again for the Queen is up for debate.
The Shopping channels seem to stop for Remembrance Sunday (sit-up definitely did) and I'm sure QVC stopped for a while in 1997 after Diana died, but whether any of the smaller ones would do so again for the Queen is up for debate.
I would imagine so. It would be considered bad taste otherwise.
The thing is that if you compare what other Satellite channels did when Diana died or the Queen Mother died, they did nothing.
Other than the odd channel displaying a strap announcing the news and maybe a tribute caption, schedules did not change unless the odd programme was deemed inappropriate to broadcast.
Therefore unless the channel or streaming service has a news obligation (which most of them don't) then I wouldn't expect much to be very different.
Sky 1 showed episodes of Star Trek: DS9 advert free with a tribute caption in-between episodes
I don't think the country can be expected to stop in its tracks in that sort of situation in this day and age. Things have changed a lot since the last death of a monarch 67 years ago. Or even the 22 years since Diana died.
I don't think the country can be expected to stop in its tracks in that sort of situation in this day and age. Things have changed a lot since the last death of a monarch 67 years ago. Or even the 22 years since Diana died.
Given the Queen has been one of the few constants in the lives of people for as much as 65 years, and given the royal family are as popular as they've ever been (certainly more than in 1997), I think a lot of people will be surprised by the reaction of the British public.
Did any of the satellite or digital channels suspend programming for the 7/7 bombings? For 9/11 a lot of entertainment channels signed off or simulcast news.
Given the Queen has been one of the few constants in the lives of people for as much as 65 years, and given the royal family are as popular as they've ever been (certainly more than in 1997), I think a lot of people will be surprised by the reaction of the British public.
These people are entitled to their opinions, and have the right to express them peacefully in a democracy. They (and people who are as utterly indifferent towards monarchy/republicanism as I am) should not suddenly find a national/global dearth of non-Royal forms of entertainment for any period following her death.
You don't even have to be anti-monarchy to feel that way. I doubt many people but the most ardent monarchists would be happy if it was still wall to wall news coverage and mouring on the main channels after several days.