IMPORTANT NOTE: You do NOT have to register to read, post, listen or contribute. If you simply wish to remain fully anonymous, you can still contribute.
There are so many events going on that after awhile they all merge into one ... and its hard to tell what they are all about.
Is this torch-thingy to celebrate Betty's 60th, or is it to ward off Ukrainian football hooligans? Personally, I would have thought that Tom Jones' singing was enough to ward off the hooligans !!! What about the barges (only four and a half hours of it - continuously - on TV !!!) ? Is that for the Olympics or another anti-hooligan measure? I hope it doesn't run late as we might miss (Sir?) Gary Barlow's new song thingy (if we are really lucky) at 7.30pm.
BUT if we watch Gary's show (BBC1 7.30) we will miss ITV's "All the Queens Horses - a Diamond Jubilee Special" at the same time. Are all the Queen's horses 60 too? What a co-incidence.
Are the Olympics being held to distract people from the fact that Andy Murray will lose again? Will David Beckham win Wimbledon this year? (Surely they will give it to him - just as they gave an Oscar to John Wayne once merely for still being alive, and never having won anything?) Where does the cricket fit into all this?
Then there's The Derby. Is it being run on Saturday so as not to clash with Euro 2012 ? Will Betty arrive on a boat, or a carriage ? Will the winner get an Olympic Gold Medal ?
There's also the football - the REAL football - not that Olympic stuff (over one million tickets still available !!!!). Are all these events planned so that no one notices that we don't have a team, and the new manager hardly knows who any of them are? ITK thinks that (with massively lower expectations - and no Wayne Wooney !) the team might do rather better than expected.
Is this concert really taking place or is it a video-taped re-run of the one they had 10 years ago (with Ozzy cut out) ? If you dont fancy watching this (same) concert AGAIN you can always switch to ITV where they have "The Queen and I" - apparently a programme about ordinary peasant folk meeting Betty.
On Tuesday we have the Diamond Jubilee (again). This time in church. It starts at 9.15am (BBC1) and goes on till 1.00pm. After the news we have The Carriage Procession !!! with (2.00pm - 3.30pm) "The Queen prepares for her carriage procession" (it takes ONE AND A HALF HOURS TO PREPARE FOR A CARRIAGE PROCESSION????? ) But we better have tea early, as we wouldn't want to miss "Rolf paints .... the Diamond Jubilee) on BBC1 at 6.30, would we ???!!!
Pity its going to be cold and wet - ideal walking weather. But when we do get home we can always watch "Countrywise Jubilee" on ITV at 8.00pm.
If you are lucky enough to miss ALL of the above I'm sure the DVD will be in the shops on Wednesday morning (and all the Jubilee stuff will be in the dump bins - so you can kill two birds with one stone).
You're really confused ITK. You missed "Punk Britannia" on BBC Four:
"June 2012, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, a heatwave in the headlines and a double-dip recession well underway. What better time for BBC Four's Britannia strand to tackle the story of British punk?"
Thanks for the tip - will be well worth watching.
Some of the Beeb4 PopRockumentaries have been extremely good - did you see the one on Fleetwood Mac a couple of weeks ago?
These music documentaries are really good, in spite of being produced (often) not by the BBC / an "objective" outsider but by the artists (Pink Floyd, Queen) themselves or by record companies.
There is for example a close relationship - incarneted by Lesley Douglas, Managing Director, Commercial Music Partnerships and Globe Television at Universal Music, who was in her former life controller of BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music - between BBC Worldwide Audio & Music and UMG.
I saw the program about Fleetwood Mac a few months ago. Or was it something new?
Part of the look at the history of punk was last nights special about John Cooper Clarke (which I haven't seen yet):
"Documentary about 'punk poet', comedian and recording artist John Cooper Clarke, revealing how he has remained a significant influence on contemporary culture over four decades."
Let's not forget our ongoing High Court-with their pants down, Lord Leveson international celebration of Mob Rule Meeja Monarch Rupe-for-the-rope 60 Yrs 'Jubilee'. 4 Oct '52-ongoing in Wonder Year Of Our Lawyers 2012.
Forums 
