Another fantastic video, mindboggling how this channel doesn't get the views it deserves.

Really good overview. The things that stick out to me are probably the things too minor to mention, but are now in my memory: 1. Andrew Marr on LBC breaking down in tears as he announced the news. 2. The fact that Channel 5 announced the death of the Queen with a shot of two policemen attending outside the opening and closing gates of Balmoral. 3. The Royal Mint website going down because people were overthinking that their money would be worthless on the death of The Queen. 4. Relief/Horror over Boris Johnson's eulogy. Relief that he wasn't PM, horror over Liz Truss' speech. 5. The 5 minutes we didn't know if he was going to be Charles III 6. And finally, the Pres Café debacle over the continuity announcers not being 'middle class' and 'too ethnic'

I find those Channel 4 blocks in the corner more disturbing than any EAS ever made on KZfaq. No joke. An entity so usually full of personality just...there...dead.

I find it completely fascinating how the queen lived so long that TV managed to change at least 3 times, and had seen closedowns become a thing of the past along with so many things about British TV.

Very well put together Matthew, I had been waiting to see what you would do from within minutes of the news breaking. For me it was an odd day, I was on airport standby and sat in the crew room at Manchester Airport, we had the TV on and it was on BBC1. I don't remember it cutting from Bargain Hunt to the news as I wasn't really watching it but then those of us who were on standby became hooked watching it and chatting, working out what was going on. A few of us, myself included admitted around 3pm that she must have gone as it was pretty clear that the Beeb were trying to ready us and soften the blow. We were all chatting away just after half six and as the screen showed a flag at half mast I shouted out "oh s*** here we go" and well, there it was. As for the aftermath, I was on holiday for most of the week of mourning and only got home the day before the Funeral, ended up being called out to operate that day so missed it...

Watching Painting the Forth Bridge right before this. Good set-up for the emotions.

Well put together. GB News was a car crash, but nowhere near as much as Talk. Alistair Stewart did the best with what he was given, which wasn't a row of beans. Channel 5's Emoji Movie was, in defence, part of a strategy to provide an alternative service to younger viewers. Channel 4 did exactly the same thing for Diana. There's also a new problem now and that's Statmuxing. If both Channels 4 and 5 broadcast the funeral, the same pictures would be going out, simultaneously, on five channels. This is why BBCs 3 and 4 simply shut down rather than take the news broadcast. I'm not sure how much the BBC knew during the afternoon, in any case it was blatantly obvious from the statement itself and the fact that the family were flying up that "This Is It."

Seeing The Queen’s name in full on that BBC News Breaking strap and the fact that Charles and Co rushed to Balmoral ASAP and then the sight of Huw’s black tie and I knew straight away that The Queen’s life was moving peacefully towards it’s close. Even though “Mrs Robinson” actually snuffed it by then.

See now, your ITV in the face is STILL required viewing, and this is right along side!

Good job by Newsround! This is a fascinating docco, I really wanted to see something like this. I don't know what we did much in Australia, only the ABC did a Special Announcement at 3.30am. I knew it was bad as Huw had his black suit and tie on earlier (11-12am). Didn't sleep well that evening 🤣

An excellent documentary, alongside the ones for Philip and Diana. I was one of the five per cent, even if I had wanted to I felt so ill I wouldn’t have been able to lift my head up for long enough, so my memory is mainly watching how the networks turned The Queue into something less like a memorial and more like live from the Big Brother House. I really did half expect the BBC to employ the BB announcer to do some “Day 3 in The Queue. David Beckham is about half way to the front sharing his Greggs custard doughnuts but Holly and Phil have caused a ruckus by using the press line instead.” The other main feeling I got was Paddington will never be the same again. Once you become the Grim Reaper it is hard to go back again.

Good on Channel 5 for showing kid's shows. Were 6 year olds supposed to sit and watch a state funeral?

19:12 "It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large". Smoothly done.

When they wheeled Huw in, it was pretty obvious. I haven't lived in the UK for almost 20 years and my God some of these people look so old since I last saw them!

I didn't see this on TV live, as I was in Wimpy in Swanage. It was announced from Global's Newsroom on whichever commercial radio station was on in the background.

Excellent video. I'd actually missed all of this at the time, having decided that Netflix and KZfaq were infinitely more preferable options than watching a plethora of talking heads talking b*ll*cks for days on end, before I buggered off to France on my bike for a few days to escape it all. We'll be going through it all again in a few years, but by then the BBC (if it hasn't been defunded) will have half a day of special programmes on the actual day on BBC1, followed a few days later by the funeral, and nothing else... ITV will have about two hours in between Loose Women and Tipping Point... Channels 4 and 5 will mention it in passing, and hopefully the likes of TalkB*ll*cksTV and GBeebies will be distant,. unpleasant memories.

Great video [As always.] But you forgot one thing. Her majesty was crowned in the B.B.C"s 51st year. Her majesty paseed in the B.B.C"s 100th year. At a time when this Ult-Right £ crashing government would like [In -truth] to end the B.B.C. This proves how important the B.B.C. Acttuually is. 2022 has been a good year for the B.B.C. Wimbledon The Proms Her Majesty Platenem jibilee. As I was taught in school and as Brexit has proven. You never know how good a thing is................................Until it is gone!

Not sure it’s quite accurate to say ‘lessons had been learned’ from the DofE. Yes, BBC simulcast the news across its channels for fewer hours but this has more to do with the time of the announcement (6.30pm compared with 12ish last time). In both cases BBC2 stopped simulcasting at 6am the following day. I think also the fact there was a full expectation that HM would be blanket coverage for a time plus the level of public engagement with the news compared with HRH meant that people didn’t really notice BBC2 losing an evening’s prime time programmes (or indeed ITV, C4 and C5). In every other respect, coverage was far more saturated than for HRH. In fact BBC1 went more or less back to normal after 24 hours then. In HM’s case they didn’t show a normal programme til the Sunday night. The low level of complaints (some 600 compared to 100,000) shows this largely reflected the public mood or at least its expectation. Anyway, great account of an historic 10 days for broadcasting and this nation and Commonwealth.

I have just watched this and even three months on it reduced me to tears. Superb content.

An instant classic, one of your best, Feltz/protocol gag made me laugh out loud A fitting overview. Although staff in the news channel gallery swear blind to people on Twitter that they only knew she’d DIED died when the PA wire broke it. I think it was just the slow progression of the day that meant it was obvious where it was going.

I remember hearing about it online it was around 12pm Midwest time it wasn’t shocking but definitely history making I felt at that moment I was watching history in the making the only other time I felt this way was when Kabul fell to the Taliban but that is a completely different matter

Superb, thank you.

10:56 You mean to tell me they interrupted one queen to provide coverage of another?

But - did the BBC Radio 1 Dance station follow up the announcement with an epic beat drop (like they did right after their announcement of Philip's death)?

i haven’t watched one single big tv event since taking a break from fitting brake cylinders to a Datsun to watch Phil Collins & the guy from Chic play drums for Led Zeppelin at Live Aid but enjoy history none the less. 🐢

Where did you find that slide at the very end of this video?

can anyone tell me if the bit at the end with the synth jingle is based on something or is it specially made? 22:45

Notice the “aaauuuugghww” as durmont murnahurn makes his announcement

Wouldnt somebody at ITN have told Channel 4 to hold on before showing the start of Hollyoaks

Although I am American, Showing the Emjoi Movie on a freaking Furenal of a inportant Figure is out-right disre-spectful

'that counts as grieving' Unless you're online, then people get upset with you for both acknowledging the fact that you felt anything at all AND for not grieving enough. :v

I'm American and I found out about the Queen after taking a 3 hour nap and getting an alert on my phone. It was probably around 2 pm my time. And really Channel 5?? The Emoji Movie??? Instead of the FUNERAL???? So disrespectful.

Can't wait until I inevitably hear about how Channel 4 and its networks handled the Queen's death. (cough cough 4seven cough cough Simpsons cough cough)

Baffling decision to cut CITV to air the funeral, at least the BBC offered an alternative for children who felt rather glum over the news.

The Queen’s funeral was watched by over 5.1 billion people across the globe

"Ramshackle" is a good way of describing Channel 5. No offense to them, but they seem to often be the butt of the joke with people who work for other channels. I mean, aside from the rampaging racists of GB News...

a problem i had with the bbc during this point: every single news programme just shoved news about the dead queen in your brain. "oh, she's lying in state!" "oh! this important person just paid their respects to the queen!" "oh! people are leaving flowers at buckingham!" like seriously, they could of atleast shown SOME normal news during the middle or lasts bits of the morning period, but whatever

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