Prince Philip like you've never seen him before!

When the Queen goes it will be 10x worse.

MORRISSEY: KA-CHING!

Give him a chance to get over this dead racist first

The overnight ratings are absolutely fascinating.

Total viewing was down by about 15% compared to last Friday.

ITV dropped below a million viewers in the 9pm primetime slot, which is almost unheard of.

At that point Ch4 had more viewers than BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Ch5 combined.

— Lee Thompson (@leethommo) April 10, 2021

The verdict is in: wall-to-wall TV coverage of Prince Philip's death was a turn-off for Brits, with major channels losing primetime (7pm-11pm) viewers compared with Friday, April 2.

BBC1: -6%
ITV: -60%
BBC2: -65%
C4: -8.5%

— Jake Kanter (@Jake_Kanter) April 10, 2021

Does not surprise me at all, since when has anyone gives a fuck about Prince Philip?

When Prince Edward dies they may as well not bother announcing it.

Some people say: well who watches live tv these days in the age of streaming etc. Those that haven't got a broadband connection will just switch it off if it is only playing shite!

See if they could hold on for another three days they'll be doing the funeral on the Queen's 95th birthday, not that much of a gift I suppose. Or...is it?

it's not like people were going out to the pub on Friday night either

Despite the DoE's many achievements in a long life of service, some will remember him as a man who was often blunt, sometimes to the point of giving offence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42003216

Although that list doesn't include my 'favourite', that time he said to a journalist "Get lost or I'll have you shot".

Calling it now- when t'queen dies all the big streaming services will be pulled in the UK

apologies for the self-indulgence but I made a twitter thread about that and I'll link to it rather than write it out again

In late April 2010 I was staying with my wife and her family in a town outside Beijing when there was an earthquake in Qinghai in which nearly 3000 people died.https://t.co/GCTP7vChkc

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) April 10, 2021

Calling it now- when t'queen dies all the big streaming services will be pulled in the UK

physical media 4ever

I drove past the UK Embassy in DC yesterday. Out front there was a table under a tent, with maybe three dozen bouquets left in remembrance.

By comparison, when Diana died I remember seeing a bank of flowers the size of a stretch limo.

Don't know why I'm surprised they've rolled Prince Andrew out for some quotes, maybe this is the start of a "public healing process" for him.

Funny you should say that but I noticed the news coverage on the day of the contained an unusually large amount of footage of Andrew.

my mum's reaction to philip dying has absolutely destroyed me pic.twitter.com/wIO3GbESNg

— Phyllida Jacobs 🍂🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@PhyllidaJacobs) April 9, 2021

Hello Arun, we have grey-scaled our website as a mark of respect for Prince Phillip who has sadly passed away today. Twitter have also done this too for the same reason.

— National Rail (@nationalrailenq) April 9, 2021

Had a bissful weekend not knowing about that.

hah! the bbc had to shut down the online complaints form after it possibly became overloaded with a so far undisclosed number of complaints. Well done for presuming the national mood and losing two thirds of your audience you fuckwits.

Did they have any choice though?

Think there are a particular set of draconian rules they have to follow post senior royal death - all presenters must wear black, programming changes etc

oh I know they are just following protocol, but now they have had a lesson that the protocol belongs to another age.

Dispatch from friend in UK pic.twitter.com/HF7ljynhxu

— Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm) April 11, 2021

I actually laughed out loud at the sight of this fucking thing (hope the pic posts)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/15/funeral-rehearsal-shows-first-sighting-of-land-rover-prince-philip-helped-design

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/251eeea8c04a763cc3bb20f8e2222519f1681f1a/0_136_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=f55c1d55029d24f54f27ecf940cb8a14

They're closing in on near-double their previous record for complaints, Jerry Springer the Opera

The BBC's own article has one of those limp dick "analysis" boxes where one of their guys is all like, ah, but how many more people would have complained if we HADN'T kissed the dead pigshit-thick nazi's arse for a whole day?? ¯\(°_o)/¯

lol pic.twitter.com/vtQ7Ook0vO

— Dr Meat Pitchell (@pdkmitchell) April 15, 2021

Is Prince Andrew creaming himself more like from the looks of that photo

Prince Philip spent the past 16 years converting this Land Rover into a hearse. It will carry his coffin at Saturday's funeral. pic.twitter.com/XI668bDy35

— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) April 15, 2021

is it grenade proof

now there's a man of the people who didn't want a fuss made

That car is incredibly hilarious

itt people who seem to have figured out how to die

that will burnish his "legend of bantz" rep with the countryside alliance/the dalesman/country living/fox-hunting classes, quite calculatedly tedious tbh.. what a *character*.. what a maverick etc vomit

Needs an elephant gun on the back and some natives lined up so he can mow them down from beyond the grave

I can't fathom why it took 16 years to design what looks like a lightly modified Land Rover

would be perfect if his coffin busted out of his incompetently modified vehicle at the top of a large hill smashed open and his adorable little corpse rolled all the way down

hills on which you're willing to etc

Punters pay tribute to Prince Philip outside Duke of Edinburgh pubhttps://t.co/4s8Ejg6SvU pic.twitter.com/0x8f0tfHgq

— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) April 17, 2021

Deid.

that's one for the Real England thread right there

I'm in Windsor today along with Lucy and Eva who have come to pay their respects to #PrincePhilip pic.twitter.com/IyjCoJeWVC

— Tom Richell (@tomrichell) April 17, 2021

don't they know that the snooker's on https://t.co/cuJahM8Aoi

— soapy xo (@sophiehnnh) April 17, 2021

RELEASE THE WINDSOR CUT https://t.co/7AXsIqUg6U

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 17, 2021

Near enough, my politics in one picture. pic.twitter.com/BkGYvNPxe3

— Giles Fraser (@giles_fraser) April 18, 2021

took me a couple of mins but that's Hull ffs

not even Hull gammons give a fuck about the monarchy so that'll be straight-up nazi provocation

took me a couple of mins but that's Hull ffs

― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 April 2021 bookmarkflaglink

The one in the Mirror headline? You must book a place and pay a respect sometime

the Giles Fraser one

fortunately nowhere near my beaten track

This cunt took every opportunity he could to be a cunt.

The Times mentioned me in their obituary for Prince Philip. I'm not sure if first-year PhD student counts as "distinguished scientist", but you have to take what you can get. pic.twitter.com/0J3nT20ebM

— Andrzej Harris (@AndrzejHarris) April 18, 2021