When was the last time ITV interrupted schedules without waiting for a break? Even when the Queen Mother died (granted, there was more to that) they didn't interrupt until after the break that followed the scheduled bulletin.
This entire incident sums up the era we are now in with rumours and fake news. One thing the Americans wouldn't have known is that the Queen must be alive and well as she was having tea and cakes with the PM only yesterday. Shows how important proper news services still are.
Once the refurbishment works have been done it will have taken inspiration from the Vatican and there will be a power station chimney stack which bellows out coloured smoke signifying news 😂
The thing with "Prince Philip retires" is that it's just big enough to count as a Significant Announcement, whilst being ludicrously small beer in comparison with what people would immediately wonder about in the context of a sudden Significant Announcement being made.
Throw in the timing and it's a magnificent confluence of how to make a story get talked up too far.
I would say that a significant announcement would be that the Government decide to spend money looking after the sick and disabled rather than pamper a family that want for nothing and are held in place by a subservient fawning media.
1) there's always one who feels the need to go down this road despite it being so out of place here
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2) that's just a crappy Metro version of the detailed story that started this thread. I'm surprised they didn't do '10 Things that would happen when The Queen dies'
The 11th thing that would happen is that the Daily Express would run a story based on viewers being outraged because ITV has dropped The Chase to show rolling news.
