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(February 2020)

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JO
Jonwo
I wonder if the BBC thought the Briefing would overrun as they dropped the final Chelsea Flower Show programme in favour of extending the coverage. I thought they should have dropped Garden Rescue as that was only a repeat but I'm guessing they couldn't know how long the questions would take.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Jonwo posted:
I wonder if the BBC thought the Briefing would overrun as they dropped the final Chelsea Flower Show programme in favour of extending the coverage. I thought they should have dropped Garden Rescue as that was only a repeat but I'm guessing they couldn't know how long the questions would take.

They are filling some what now and repeating the same stuff
SS
SuperSajuuk
Simon Jack scolds his minions on-air!

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I think he was expecting the Zoom host at Downing St to unmute him, not sure Zoom has that level of functionality?

No idea if anyone replied to this, but Zoom allows the host to request others to unmute themselves.

Hosts can mute anyone without needing to ask permission, but they can only send a request to everyone to unmute (when this is triggered, the person or persons get a popup saying "the host wants you to unmute yourself" and you can either stay muted, or be unmuted).
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
To be honest, Zoom isn't particularly user friendly at the best of times in my experience. I've had to intervene on my parents behalf with Zoom on their computer a few times now. Not in person I should add, but via remote desktop software.
BR
Brekkie
How has the briefing been rating lately. Will be interesting to see if today's Cummingsvirus briefing saw an increase, or if like me people couldn't stand to watch it.
DO
dosxuk
You missed a cracker of an episode. Definitely going to be in the end of season highlight show.
BR
Brekkie
Wouldn't be surprised if it was the end of season and we find out tomorrow it's been axed.
MA
Markymark
Wouldn't be surprised if it was the end of season and we find out tomorrow it's been axed.




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BF
BFGArmy
Tuned into Sky News just now and saw professional 'shock jock' Brendan O'Neill on. I honestly wish news channels would stop using these sort of partisan talking heads -of which O'Neill is the absolute worst. He must be bloody cheap for news channels to use him so often.
AJB39 and Blake Connolly gave kudos
CM
cmthwtv
They could improve the ending of the programme. It’s like the end of a BBC News bulletin when they opt out. For a comedy series like this it could be a bit better...
DV
dvboy
Tuned into Sky News just now and saw professional 'shock jock' Brendan O'Neill on. I honestly wish news channels would stop using these sort of partisan talking heads -of which O'Neill is the absolute worst. He must be bloody cheap for news channels to use him so often.


I think the issue is there aren't many people out there willing to go on TV and publicly defend Cummings and Johnson today, so they are having to scrape the barrel.
AJ
AJB39
Tuned into Sky News just now and saw professional 'shock jock' Brendan O'Neill on. I honestly wish news channels would stop using these sort of partisan talking heads -of which O'Neill is the absolute worst. He must be bloody cheap for news channels to use him so often.

BBC News had Tom Harwood from Guido Fawkes who is equally repellent on their programme. Unbelievable how they can defend the indefensible.

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