2019 General Christmas election.

I noticed a couple of oddities on today's Andrew Marr Show, including with the pre-recorded interview with the Secretary General of NATO. There was a reference to the interview taking place prior to the London Bridge attack, but on the desk in the studio you could see the front page of today's Sunday Times?!

Presumably the questions were re-recorded this morning for continuity, but they'd even gone to the effort of putting the interviewee up on one of the big screens as if he was listening to Marr's questions there and then...

Whenever I've seen them do pre-records before they've always kept the original shots of the questions being asked in (it's always obvious as they frequently use Studio A for the pre-records), so a bit strange that they didn't this time around?

Separately, the signature interview background of Big Ben was on both the big screen and one of the individual screens on the catwalk today. I think previously they've shot the guest close-ups with the big screen behind them, but today had opted against that. It meant that in some of the wide shot you could see the London Eye twice!

After all the fuss about BoJo on Marr actually seen very little coverage of what was said today, even on the BBC News site, though maybe that was the intention. Is a danger the coverage has become more about the broadcasters than the politicians.


Back to coverage and if Julie is doing the morning coverage on ITV any news on who will be taking on the graphics role overnight?

Nina Hossain maybe instead of her doing the Spin/Opinion Room with the journalists and pollsters.

There’s a lot of gossip on Twitter that the queen may have died, I suspect it’s just a rumour but... it so, would it cancel the GE?

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/royal-expert-denies-rumour-queen-is-dead/news-story/b3fdca86cf9a33dac6e318ee1a579059

(as of May 2010)

That would push it onto Boxing Day which is disregarded, so the 27th would be the next date, in theory.

I wouldn't believe everything you read on Twitter. Anything that is comprised purely of user generated content needs handling with kid gloves. And quite often completely ignored.

Source seems to be a screengrab of a Whatsapp chat. Which can easily be fabricated. Like that "tweet" that Jeremy Corbyn was supposed to have sent in light of Friday's events which was also a fake.

I won't believe it until BM11 posts it.

Thanks for finding that! I don’t believe it personally but just made me curious if it had, what happens to the GE

Just looked it up on Twitter, screenshot of a Whatsapp message. I'd bet everything she's still alive.

Probably just like the tweet Jeremy Corbyn was supposed to have sent. Which he didn't, that was fabricated.
Problem with user generated content is any Tom, Dick and Harry can generate some "evidence" of anything and people are far too gullible.

Still, obit tapes are always at the ready I suppose rumour or no rumour.

Clive Myrie in 'normal' attire...... Next conspiracy theory please .......

This happened before, where someone started a rumour about 'the next day'.

Did we not learn every time this comes up that it's too late in the day for this now and that any official announcement would be at 8am the following morning? The tweets are saying announcement at 9:30am, which is the first anomaly for a start.

Anyway 9:30 would be the worst possible time for ITV, five minutes into Rinder and five minutes or so before the next convenient break into the programme. No consideration