Alan Titchmarsh gets angry when the Queen is called Her Royal Highness by the BBC… well, who doesn’t
TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh has spat his dummy out over the BBC’s coverage of the recent Diamond Jubilee River Thames boat pageant, saying it all left him “angry and rattled.”
Branding the BBC’s commentary as “inane”, he went on to say, “I haven’t blushed for a long time [but] sometimes I get angry.”
To Radio Times, he added, “I got very angry during the Diamond Jubilee coverage when the Queen was wrongly called ‘Her Royal Highness’ and presenters were vague on facts.
“One said the Queen has outlasted 12 prime ministers and ‘at least’ six American presidents.
“We all make mistakes but when somebody obviously hasn’t done their homework, that gets me a bit rattled.”
Yeah, it keeps me awake at nights Al…
However, Alan wasn’t the only person going around the UK rattling since the BBC registered around 4,500 complaints about their coverage of the long weekend, and most of those were about the river pageant and the accompanying commentary.
Comedian Stephen Fry labeled it as “mind numbingly tedious” and presenter Clare Balding said the corporation’s coverage had “misfired.”
The BBC has since said that it has “taken on board” criticisms about the weekend’s reporting, and “will review [the] coverage.”
An average of 10.3 million people watched the pageant broadcast over its five-hour duration.
Were you one of those who complained? And if so, what was so bad about it all?
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The presenters were dumb. The camera work was bad. The hosts were gurning dolts who were also dumb as dirt. Terrible all around. The BBC should be ashamed. You should all get refunds. (We had no option here in the U.S. – we could only watch the festivities on BBCAmerica – which we also pay a fee for.) Question: has Mr. Murdoch purchased the BBC? Her Majesty The Queen must be despairing of the dumbing down of the once mighty BBC.