London Bridge Is Down

In their later years Bid/Price Drop would typically fill Remembrance Sunday with 'poppy' related items, with no promise of any money going to charity but plenty of suggestion that it was some kind of memorial. Always struck me as extremely poor taste on their part.

Due to the nature of these particular channels where they rattled through produce at breakneck speed if you happened to be around them at around 11am on Remembrance Sunday the two minute silence sometimes came across as an unwelcome interruption to proceedings, as in "we're going to leave this cheap tat here for a bit, observe two minutes silence AND THEN WE WILL BE BACK".

That was probably the normal schedule. All Sky channels plus Fox Kids had the tribute caption instead of commercials.

As I seem to recall what happened was the episodes were shown with no breaks at all so for example an episode would start at 11 am. It would run until 11.45 and the rest of the hour would be a caption tribute with another episode starting at 12 (Memory is vague from 22 years ago).

I do wonder how long wall to wall coverage would last before people get bored. Obviously they will be new events to show on the main channels but I am not sure hours of a live feed of people filing pass the coffin at while it lies in state will be riveting viewing.

I remember watching The Simpsons on Sky 1 with the caption.

Taken to its logical conclusion, it's that any entertainment based 'trading' should cease ? No football matches, bingo halls should close, and all commercial TV and radio channels should either stop broadcasting, or cease broadcasting any ads ?

That's kind of what happened during the day on Diana's death, I don't think the same should (or will happen) when HM goes. If people want to sit in their homes in silent reflection, there will still be plenty of ways to achieve that, and people seem to forget their TVs have an off switch.

ISTR there was an England World Cup Qualifier just after Diana died.

I was in Gran Canaria when Diana died and had the bizarre situation of standing for a minutes silence in a bar at a random time later that day at the behest of the DJ.

10 days after. Think the schedules were back to normal. However, the Scotland game was meant to take place on the day of the funeral, and was switched to the following day.

Sky 1 continuity on Sunday 31st August 1997, which gives you an example of how they dealt with a period of national mourning.

That makes it sound like picked they DS9 specifically. I didn't know DIana/the Queen Mum was a Trekkie.