That wedding

[Joe]

Sure, but there's a difference between being interested in something, and obsessed - and automatically assuming that your audience falls into the latter category, by using language which conveys that. Such, as: 'Aren't we all so excited about the wedding tomorrow?', which is something I heard on Good Morning Britain.

That was your big mistake, watching Good Morning Britain.

[Marco]

Lol... Del has it on in the morning to look at the time when she's getting ready for work! Yes, I know, there are plenty of other clocks in the house

Another example was the BBC's 'One Show', which for the whole week leading up the the royal wedding, hardly discussed anything else. I could go on... It would be just about tolerable if the news was filled with it, but when royal wedding obsession starts seeping into and dominating various other programmes, it's all just too much!

Marco.

[Joe]

I did mean to watch the wedding (or at least have it on in the background while I did something else. But I forgot all about it until Geoff reminded me. So I don't know what category that puts me in. Certainly when I was younger I would have had no truck with it at all but now it does vaguely interest me. I quite like a bit of pomp and circumstance. I usually have The Trooping Of The Colour on too, if I remember that it is happening.

Never have been interested in the Royal family, and never will be though I used to watch that Edinburgh Tattoo thing when I was a nipper. My wife watched most of the live broadcast, and the 'highlights' programme later on, but women are generally more interested in weddings, Royal or otherwise, than blokes are anyway.

[Joe]

Another example was the BBC's 'One Show'

I've often wondered who watched that. Does it still have that ugly bloke, what's his name, Adrian Childs, presenting it?

[Marco]

No, he's left.

I think you're highlighting the problem that if you haven't watched certain TV programmes, you won't have been aware of how much the royal wedding has dominated them in the past week!

After all, it's very easy to avoid something you haven't seen... But if you watch those programmes, expecting the content to varied in the usual way, and instead all you hear about is the bloody royal wedding, well, you can see my point?

Marco.

[Ian7633]

It's a pretty rare event a royal wedding so I guess overkill takes place reporting on it especially in these days of 24 hour rolling news. I am a royalist but I don't bang on about it, history 'innit.
As was commented on earlier we will get Wimbledon shoved down our throats soon and the world cup. Neither of these interest me and along with cricket and rugby I'd rather have experimental bowel surgery than sit through any of it. When we hosted the Olympics in 2012 the BBC opened up BBC3 24 hours to cover it, I know BBC3 is now internet only but if something similar was done for these events they might not irritate people so much, just a thought.

[Marco]

It's a pretty rare event a royal wedding so I guess overkill takes place reporting on it especially in these days of 24 hour rolling news. I am a royalist but I don't bang on about it, history 'innit.

I think the problem too is that you really need to be a flag-waving Brit, or a rampant royalist, to go 'all giddy' over royal weddings, and because I'm not (being first and foremost Italian, and not in any way a royalist), I simply can't relate to that mentality. If it's your 'bag' though, then fill your boots

What I have a (big) problem with, is the BBC (or any other broadcaster) essentially dictating to me what I should be 'excited' about.

As was commented on earlier we will get Wimbledon shoved down our throats soon and the world cup. Neither of these interest me and along with cricket and rugby I'd rather have experimental bowel surgery than sit through any of it.

Indeed, but as I said earlier, I don't see any of those dominating all sorts of other programmes, which have nothing to do with sport, to anything like such an extent as did coverage of the build up to the royal wedding.

I'd be confident that I could sit and watch a cookery programme all way through, and not hear any mention of, say, the Olympics.

That's the difference!

Marco.

[Macca]

If you're going to watch stuff like The One Show, Good Morning Britain and cooking shows that's that sort of thing your going to get. Those programmes are not aimed at your demographic. They are aimed at people who love weddings, celebrities and royals though.


I watched the FA cup final yesterday and there was no mention of the royal wedding. Then I watched 'Buck Rogers In The 25th Century' and you'd have thought that there was no royal wedding happening so studiously did they ignore the subject.

[Marco]

If you're going to watch stuff like The One Show, Good Morning Britain and cooking shows that's that sort of thing your going to get. Those programmes are not aimed at your demographic. They are aimed at people who love weddings, celebrities and royals though.

Lol - so what if I enjoy their content otherwise, should I just be expected suffer royal wedding mania? The programmes concerned are aimed at people who, at any other time, enjoy their normal content. I never watch the One Show or Good Morning Britain for royal wedding or banal celebrity nonsense.

I watch the One Show sometimes, depending on what guests they have on. If it's someone I like, then I watch it solely for that reason, or if they're covering a social welfare issue that interests me. And Good Morning Britain is simply on in the background whilst Del gets ready for work, although I do like when Piers Morgan, in his inimitable style, is laying into some unfortunate politician

The problem, as I've said before, is applying a blanket presumption on the likes or dislikes of your target audience. I should be able to cherry-pick what I want to see with such programmes, without being stopped from doing so, because something I have no interest in whatsoever has taken over the whole programme!

Marco.

[mikmas]

If you're going to watch stuff like The One Show, Good Morning Britain and cooking shows that's that sort of thing your going to get. Those programmes are not aimed at your demographic. They are aimed at people who love weddings, celebrities and royals though.


I watched the FA cup final yesterday and there was no mention of the royal wedding. Then I watched 'Buck Rogers In The 25th Century' and you'd have thought that there was no royal wedding happening so studiously did they ignore the subject.