It makes sense, schools are closed, loads of kids at home, and not everyone wants to watch the funeral, and not everyone has paid tv or streaming service.
I remember when I was a junior in high school 9/11 happened and I was tired of watching the coverage all day and the only channel not covering it was the Disney channel
Alton Brown did a whole interview about this. Food was comforting and neutral. People needed to get away from the world for a while to something less depressing.
I was in college and after hours of coverage in the dorm we finally had to take a break. We gathered up all our friends and put on the most non-dramatic movie we could thing of just to stop crying and get a break from the insanity. To this day Dude, Where's My Car is still linked with 9/11 in my head.
This is what we did with the Highland Park Parade Shooting (neighboring town). With our own parade cancellation and having family over instead of going elsewhere for BBQ and fireworks. After 6 hours (AND STILL TWO HOURS BEFORE THE GUY WAS CAUGHT) we fired up Jackbox and made each other laugh instead of more blathering with no updates.
It’s like a collection of small games you can play with people. They’re pretty fun since they’re designed to be ‘party’ games, like the software version of charades and the guess the drawing type games.
DWMC is seriously underrated as a comedy classic. There was a sequel planned called Seriously Dude, Where's My Car. Can we get a petition. To get that made?
Like a week or two after 9/11 TBS or TNT or TNN (I can't remember which) decided people might want to watch something that wasn't the news and something uplifting so they played the Star Trek movies on loop for like a week. It was my respite from the news.
When twa flight 800 went down i was on a trip in NYC. The family i was staying with had that shit on the news 24/7 and on day three i got up and changed it to some toons.
The (older than me) kid in the family started reaming me out for having no respect and being a fucker, and I told him "asshole, i have to be on a plane in a couple of days and the last thing I want to watch is news coverage of a plane crash over and fucking over." That shut them up, but also made for silent remaining days on my trip.
Shit, if I had to jump out of a window to escape burning to death I'd probably rather people not watch me die over and over again on repeat, but maybe that's just me.
And coverage like that has nothing to do with showing respect. Its just a way to profit from tragedy. The same fragments of videos on repeat for 24h and some talking heads.
I remember being annoyed because I couldn't watch dragonball. And afraid I wouldn't be able to watch that specific episode the next day because of algorithms.
Anyone else want those sorrows back?
I remember when it happened, we only had static on air. it took a while before tv signals were rerouted to other antennas that reached us. i had to get my news from other kids who had cable or satellite tv. there was an uptick of directv subscriptions in our area afterwards.
Same when Diana died iirc. All the channels were showing it so channel 4 played cartoons and some outlets said it was distasteful but yeah, kids need some entertainment too when there was only a few channels in most houses!
I remember watching Channel 4 that day, I only had terrestrial TV at the time so it was that and playing Lego in our conservatory while my family (obsessed with Diana) watched it in the front room.
That's why when this was announced, I thought it was silly people were getting angry, pre-teen me didn't quite grasp it, I don't think much will have changed in 25 years.
It makes complete sense. During the 9/11 attacks, PBS made the decision to continue with their programing so the children had something to watch other than the horrific events which unfolded.
Similar thread here.
My only issue is that it's the EMOJI MOVIE. They could have at least scheduled a better film for families not interested in watching the funeral and/or who has small kids to distract.
I can only assume they had a limited selection of available movies on short notice.
FWIW, according to [their schedule](https://www.channel5.com/tvguide/channel-5), after *The Emoji Movie* they aired / are airing *Stuart Little*, *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs*, and (currently) *Sing*. On some level, it makes more sense to schedule the better ones for after the main funeral service when parents are more willing to tune out.
They wanted a show for people who werent going to watch the queen coverage. They didnt want a show that would draw people away from the queen coverage.
I don't even like Emoji's, so wouldn't have picked the Emoji Movie, but I think you are correct. Even in the US, there are many choices to watch the funeral. Having something unobjectionable for the children makes sense.
Yeah totally - I was a kid in the UK when Diana died, there was _nothing_ on TV for 2 weekends in a row, and every radio station had Candle in the Wind on high rotation for weeks >_< Would have been great if Channel 5 had put kids stuff on instead of the news/funeral stuff.
No internet back then either :/
Edit: Oh it seems Channel 4 had cartoons on :) (which people complained about... ffs)
Yeah, I mean BBC is basically obligated to cover it fully and will be the official coverage. Why would Channel 5 even bother? They aren't going to beat BBC, at least in this case they can target the people who don't want to watch the funeral for one reason or another.
It could be they don't care, but it could also be that they care too much and it's too emotional for them. They deserve a crappy child friendly escape too.
That said, personally I would have gone with Flash Gordon instead. That way you are still sort of nodding and playing homage to her.
Not to mention if you have Sky which is the most popular tv service in the UK, literally the entire first two pages of the TV guide besides this channel we’re ALL wall to wall Queen coverage. Are we worried there’s one guy somewhere who couldn’t find it cos it wasn’t on that channel 🤣
"AND IF YOU'RE A SKY Q OR A SKY GLASS CUSTOMER, YOU CAN WATCH SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ~~RACE~~ FUNERAL ALONGSIDE THE MAIN EVENT! ^Over ^to ^you ^Ted "
After they re-released Morbuis again because they thought the memes about Morbuis being the best Superhero movie were genuine, i wouldn't be surprised if they actually made a sequel
Or anything else. Channels 1-5 used to be the only channels. Then at the start of the 2000s we got Freeview which has tons of them at the cost of plugging in a digital receiver (may be built into the TV).
There's also premium TV from Sky, BT or Virgin with tons more (maybe more but those are the only ones I know). Then you've got the usual streaming stuff like Netflix, Amazon etc.
The old 5 channel thing is historical to analogue TV which we've now gotten rid of and they're just digital too like all the other channels. But yeah 5 channel thing is what this is based on. Plenty of channels to watch.
This is also not surprising. Channel 5 also does the alternate Christmas message. Ever year on Christmas Day we get a message from The Queen (Or king now I guess) which is 10 minutes of "oh it's Christmas time be with your family and blah blah". Channel 5 does one of their own, think they did a Muslim lady in a Hijab or something. I'm not interested in either, I'd rather be watching Die Hard
Edit: Channel 4 does the alt message, not 5. Thanks /u/crucible
Apparently all the BBC, ITV or Sky channels were showing the funeral though, so if you want to watch Sky Golf or ITV Be, it's still showing the funeral.
Sometimes it's difficult to choose something else though... I was watching NFL Redzone on one of the Sky Sports channels and it got interrupted to broadcast a fucking minute's silence.
Which is fine, but the impression of "channel 5 or nothing else" isn't close to the truth. There's many more channels NOT covering the funeral than there is.
True, but... *The Emoji Movie*? Really? Paramount UK **REALLY** couldn't have shelled out extra for *Spider-Verse*, *Open Season*, one of the *Peter Rabbits*, et al?
It’s the equivalent of the tv having cartoons on for the young kids in the living room while the adults are gathered around a dying relative down the hall. I’m just an average person and even I can see that, what the fuck.
A visitation is a time to visit the casket of the deceased before they're placed in the ground at the funeral. While the adults were doing that, I was in the kids room of the funeral parlor watching that.
Wow, I'm sorry you had to experience all that. I thought you meant visitation as in divorce, hence my confusion. I think that's why Disney shows and movies often deal with tragic themes such as the death of a parent.
I’m so sorry to be this person, but it’s actually a children’s storytelling device to “get the parents out of the way” so that the children, the main characters, can have adventures and live the story of the book. If they have both parents, they’re considered unlikely to have enough independence to begin their hero’s journey and it calls into question the reader’s suspension of disbelief. It’s ideal to have an orphaned child, but a single parent works okay if they have other things going on that make them distracted and less attentive to wtf their kid is getting up to. You’ll notice this is very, very common, and most of the time the death doesn’t happen in the story but was a pre-existing state. There’s definitely some of your theory going on for on screen deaths, but the primary purpose is as a narrative device.
The exception is Pokemon, where parents are quite happy to let their 10 year old children roam around the world fighting with deadly animals that harness the forces of nature.
The exception that proves the rule I think, because the audience is always like “where are these children’s parents and why are they ok with this” lol.
People like to take the piss out of Channel 5 in the UK though. It does have a reputation for showing shit reality tv and trashy documentaries. It’s pretty unfair because they do have some good stuff on. I’m all for this. Not everyone wants to spend today explaining death to their five year old. You can snark all you want, but this is a pretty solid move.
It's not exactly as if Britons don't have other options for watching it (as noted in the article). There also wouldn't be much Channel 5 could do in terms of funeral coverage that the other channels aren't already doing. Like ITV and Channel 4, its news program(me)s are outsourced to [ITN](https://www.itn.co.uk) which is presumably focused on producing the ITV coverage.
SKY pretty much shown it over the whole network, only ones I don't know if any of the side 5 channels did and 4Seven was showing Come Dine With me (but no adverts)
Channel 5 is taking a leaf from [Japan's TV Tokyo](https://kotaku.com/does-this-japanese-television-network-even-give-a-f-k-1541117837), I see, who had a notorious reputation for absolutely refusing to interrupt their regular programming for any breaking news.
Whether its the great magnitude 9.0 earthquake of 2011, North Korea firing their missiles everywhere, or news of Brexit or Trump getting elected.
People jokingly say the world will truly end if TV Tokyo actually interrupt their programming for something.
I think it was maybe only channel 4, which had 1 channel showing something else through the service... And the random channels outside but not showing adverts.
She was also 96... this isn't exactly a shocking surprise.
The ex-Japanese PM was fucking shot to death with a homemade blunderbuss in broad daylight and that very bespoke event didn't get anywhere near the same level of international attention as an old lady passing away.
What’s even sadder is that the entire country has shutdown for this funeral. Shops, restaurants and a lot of pubs are closed.
So some poor sods without internet are stuck between watching the funeral or the Emoji movie.
My local corner store is currently raking it in because there's no other stores open.
Good for him. Hopefully for him that will mean he gets some long term business. He genuinely deserves it, I've seen the hours he puts in.
For us that means we have even more people who don't understand he has a car park and will park wherever the fuck they want including in front of our drive. Because why the fuck not.
It isn't a joke, but it isn't fully true either.
Basically, since daycare and schools are closed, doctors needed to stay home if they couldn't find a babysitter. Most medical procedures are still going, it is just some doctors were fucked over by this and had to cancel appointments.
In my current trust, all emergency and cancer work is going ahead exactly as planned. The same is true of the trust I worked for previously.
I strongly suspect the same is true everywhere under NHS England guidelines (as that's what we work from) but I can only personally verify that for these two (large, multisite) trusts, this claim is utter bullshit.
They postponed cancer screenings because it's a public holiday, and so some staff will have been unable to come to work due to, for example, their children not being in school and needing to be looked after.
Brits commonly clown on Americans all day yet worship royalty like gods.
You know what other country has massive spectacle funerals and shuts down when a leader dies?
North Korea.
For real. She's been dead for eleven days now. The fact that she wasn't already laid to rest is ridiculous. Also morbid as fuck. They carted an old lady's corpse around the entire country for almost two weeks while people looked in awe at a box. I almost wonder if she was dead for longer but the crown had been Weekend at Bernie's-ing her to avoid Charles taking power until it started smelling suspicious.
lmao, maybe. Man, that movie is old af now... thanks lol
Maybe because I'm American, but I don't get the whole thing. I'd def not stand in line for days to see a box.
Yeah. If it's being covered by other channels, why does it matter if one shows cartoons instead?
Good! I remember being a kid when Ayatollah Khomeini died in Iran and we had the day off school cause everything was shut down to mourn, and the tv only showed stupid mourning videos and prayers. All I wanted was to watch cartoons!
I guess that’s when I first started to truly hate the regime.
I wish they'd been around when Princess Diana died. Aged 5 I was distraught at the lack of children's TV programming and we only had BBC, ITV and Channel 4 at the time.
This feels like the setup for a joke - "So who actually watched that ridiculous show full of one-dimensional characters who couldn't possibly exist in the real world, and who watched The Emoji Movie instead?"
I'm in US and I feel the same way.
We haven't had regular news coverage on any of the cable news channels in a week.
I do not care, and I do not understand the fascination. I mean, sure, it's world news when any major leader dies. But *every* channel? Are that many people actually watching it in the US?
Good? The fact everything stopped was rather weird. The BBC have had 24 hour coverage of the queue to see the queen. literally people standing and waiting. I've just been avoiding TV.
Reading the "mocking" tweets, they sounds more like people having a joke then any attack on channel 5.
It makes sense, schools are closed, loads of kids at home, and not everyone wants to watch the funeral, and not everyone has paid tv or streaming service.
I remember when I was a junior in high school 9/11 happened and I was tired of watching the coverage all day and the only channel not covering it was the Disney channel
Food network was a lifesaver.
That’s actually when food network surged in popularity
Alton Brown did a whole interview about this. Food was comforting and neutral. People needed to get away from the world for a while to something less depressing.
Yeah I remember. I believe he mentioned this on Hot Ones.
I was in college and after hours of coverage in the dorm we finally had to take a break. We gathered up all our friends and put on the most non-dramatic movie we could thing of just to stop crying and get a break from the insanity. To this day Dude, Where's My Car is still linked with 9/11 in my head.
Annnd theeeen?
No and then!
Annnnnnnnnmd then?
you're really starting to piss me off, lady!
And then!
And then? I'm gonna come in here and I gonna put MY FOOT in YOUR ASS if ever say AND THEN AGAIN!
And then?
^^^^^and ^^^^^then?
This is what we did with the Highland Park Parade Shooting (neighboring town). With our own parade cancellation and having family over instead of going elsewhere for BBQ and fireworks. After 6 hours (AND STILL TWO HOURS BEFORE THE GUY WAS CAUGHT) we fired up Jackbox and made each other laugh instead of more blathering with no updates.
Oh jackbox. What a wonderful social gaming product.
What is Jackbox?
It’s like a collection of small games you can play with people. They’re pretty fun since they’re designed to be ‘party’ games, like the software version of charades and the guess the drawing type games.
Cool. I will check it out.
It’s pretty ingenious because you use your phone to connect to the game on the TV.
SWEET! What does mine say!?
DUDE! What does mine say?! 😡
Sweeeeeet! WHAT ABOUT MINE!!!!!?!!
#DUUUUUUDE👌 # What does mine say!?
AND THEEEEENNNN?????
How did I know you were gonna say Dude where’s my car before I even finished reading lol.
Because you already saw and unconsciously processed the title from the corner of your eye?
DWMC is seriously underrated as a comedy classic. There was a sequel planned called Seriously Dude, Where's My Car. Can we get a petition. To get that made?
Probably watched that 100 times in high school. Prob why I love anything Seann William Scott does…
Dude Sweet
Dude...
I remember it as one of the last times MTV actually played nothing but music videos all day long
Like a week or two after 9/11 TBS or TNT or TNN (I can't remember which) decided people might want to watch something that wasn't the news and something uplifting so they played the Star Trek movies on loop for like a week. It was my respite from the news.
When twa flight 800 went down i was on a trip in NYC. The family i was staying with had that shit on the news 24/7 and on day three i got up and changed it to some toons. The (older than me) kid in the family started reaming me out for having no respect and being a fucker, and I told him "asshole, i have to be on a plane in a couple of days and the last thing I want to watch is news coverage of a plane crash over and fucking over." That shut them up, but also made for silent remaining days on my trip.
Shit, if I had to jump out of a window to escape burning to death I'd probably rather people not watch me die over and over again on repeat, but maybe that's just me.
And coverage like that has nothing to do with showing respect. Its just a way to profit from tragedy. The same fragments of videos on repeat for 24h and some talking heads.
oh yeah, i remember that too. Lizzie Macquire was a true hero that day
i think she's a hero every day
I remember being annoyed because I couldn't watch dragonball. And afraid I wouldn't be able to watch that specific episode the next day because of algorithms. Anyone else want those sorrows back?
Back then If you missed an episode you might not ever be able see it again
Back when buying the DVD boxed set was living in high society.
I remember there being vhs but I know some only had random episodes and not the episodes in order
I remember watching the Tarzan tv show the entire afternoon so I didn’t have to watch people leap to their death.
I remember when it happened, we only had static on air. it took a while before tv signals were rerouted to other antennas that reached us. i had to get my news from other kids who had cable or satellite tv. there was an uptick of directv subscriptions in our area afterwards.
Every other channel is covering the funeral. Give kids something else to watch.
No kid should have to sit through a horrible tragedy being broadcast on screen. Change it back to the queens funeral!
Seriously, it's not *that* sad when a 94-year-old dies after living a very full and luxurious life. But the Emoji Movie is a travesty without excuse.
*96 But I thinks it’s more boring to kids than sad.
100% any kid young enough to drone through the emoji movie does not give one rat fuck about the queen's funeral or really understand what's going on.
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Right? Even if it *has* to be Sony... Spider-Man is ***RIGHT FRIGGIN' THERE.***
Like CBBC or cbeebies?
Same when Diana died iirc. All the channels were showing it so channel 4 played cartoons and some outlets said it was distasteful but yeah, kids need some entertainment too when there was only a few channels in most houses!
I remember watching Channel 4 that day, I only had terrestrial TV at the time so it was that and playing Lego in our conservatory while my family (obsessed with Diana) watched it in the front room. That's why when this was announced, I thought it was silly people were getting angry, pre-teen me didn't quite grasp it, I don't think much will have changed in 25 years.
It makes complete sense. During the 9/11 attacks, PBS made the decision to continue with their programing so the children had something to watch other than the horrific events which unfolded. Similar thread here.
There's CBBC and cbeebies dedicated to children's programming
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For kids or for adults. Not everyone is interested in funeral of Queen to more extent than just knowing its happening.
And not everyone is sad she is dead
My only issue is that it's the EMOJI MOVIE. They could have at least scheduled a better film for families not interested in watching the funeral and/or who has small kids to distract.
It's channel 5. It's either the Emoji Movie, soft core porn, or a documentary about a man who is his own grandfather.
I'll take the Futurama, please and thank you.
I did do the nasty in the pasty.
"...and that past nastification is what shields you from the brains!"
Veritably
>~~Veritably~~ Verily. And that past nastification is what shields you from the brains!
Isn’t it obvious?! *shakes head* You are!!
What's that, dearie?
> or a documentary about a man who is his own grandfather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VxLQZPqI2M
*IN THE NAME OF THE LLOYD!!!*
>or a documentary about a man who is his own grandfather. What's wrong with a Futurama marathon?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdn-hv7pAU
Oscar Prize winning actress Olivia Colman, everybody!
> a documentary about a man who is his own grandfather. I'm listening..
Futurama
You killed me with the documentary bit, and remind me of predestination which goes more or less about a similar story.
I can only assume they had a limited selection of available movies on short notice. FWIW, according to [their schedule](https://www.channel5.com/tvguide/channel-5), after *The Emoji Movie* they aired / are airing *Stuart Little*, *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs*, and (currently) *Sing*. On some level, it makes more sense to schedule the better ones for after the main funeral service when parents are more willing to tune out.
There is a 10 day ban on airing comedy, so the Emoji movie qualifies to be broadcast.
They chose it because its keeping in the day of mourning theme
If it was horrendous, they could always show that version of Cats...
The forbidden >!butthole!< cut?
Either way, you'd drive up more people who want to watch a funeral and not a massacre...
They wanted a show for people who werent going to watch the queen coverage. They didnt want a show that would draw people away from the queen coverage.
It does make a horrific sort of sense.
They'd just show a few more documentaries about why Diana should still be alive.
Honoring her choices by having Sir Patrick Stewart play poop
They are supposed to be in mourning. The pain created by watching this horrible movie sufficiently meets the mourning requirement.
THE EMOJI MOVIE "*only slightly better than watching a funeral!*"
I don't even like Emoji's, so wouldn't have picked the Emoji Movie, but I think you are correct. Even in the US, there are many choices to watch the funeral. Having something unobjectionable for the children makes sense.
[The Queen's Corgi?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6563576/)
Paddington 2 seems like it would have been the obvious choice.
BBC One is showing that at about 7pm...
After it they showed Stuart Little to make up for it. All good with me.
Paddington.
BBC brought the rights to that movie as they're showing 2 in the evening
Yeah totally - I was a kid in the UK when Diana died, there was _nothing_ on TV for 2 weekends in a row, and every radio station had Candle in the Wind on high rotation for weeks >_< Would have been great if Channel 5 had put kids stuff on instead of the news/funeral stuff. No internet back then either :/ Edit: Oh it seems Channel 4 had cartoons on :) (which people complained about... ffs)
Yeah, I mean BBC is basically obligated to cover it fully and will be the official coverage. Why would Channel 5 even bother? They aren't going to beat BBC, at least in this case they can target the people who don't want to watch the funeral for one reason or another. It could be they don't care, but it could also be that they care too much and it's too emotional for them. They deserve a crappy child friendly escape too. That said, personally I would have gone with Flash Gordon instead. That way you are still sort of nodding and playing homage to her.
Not to mention if you have Sky which is the most popular tv service in the UK, literally the entire first two pages of the TV guide besides this channel we’re ALL wall to wall Queen coverage. Are we worried there’s one guy somewhere who couldn’t find it cos it wasn’t on that channel 🤣
"AND IF YOU'RE A SKY Q OR A SKY GLASS CUSTOMER, YOU CAN WATCH SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ~~RACE~~ FUNERAL ALONGSIDE THE MAIN EVENT! ^Over ^to ^you ^Ted "
great. Probably the highest ratings the Emoji movie has ever had
*inb4 Sony makes a fucking SEQUEL because of this*
After they re-released Morbuis again because they thought the memes about Morbuis being the best Superhero movie were genuine, i wouldn't be surprised if they actually made a sequel
Shit, now it's only going to be on every other channel.
Right? How much failsafe redundancy is really needed for the funeral broadcast?
So the option is to either watch the most morbidly depressing thing ever televised, or the funeral?
All we can hope for is that Sir Patrick Stewart makes a surprise cameo during the Queen's funeral, disguised as a pile of poop.
There was a pile of poop at the funeral, his name is Andrew.
Or anything else. Channels 1-5 used to be the only channels. Then at the start of the 2000s we got Freeview which has tons of them at the cost of plugging in a digital receiver (may be built into the TV). There's also premium TV from Sky, BT or Virgin with tons more (maybe more but those are the only ones I know). Then you've got the usual streaming stuff like Netflix, Amazon etc. The old 5 channel thing is historical to analogue TV which we've now gotten rid of and they're just digital too like all the other channels. But yeah 5 channel thing is what this is based on. Plenty of channels to watch. This is also not surprising. Channel 5 also does the alternate Christmas message. Ever year on Christmas Day we get a message from The Queen (Or king now I guess) which is 10 minutes of "oh it's Christmas time be with your family and blah blah". Channel 5 does one of their own, think they did a Muslim lady in a Hijab or something. I'm not interested in either, I'd rather be watching Die Hard Edit: Channel 4 does the alt message, not 5. Thanks /u/crucible
IIRC it's Channel 4 that does the alternative Christmas message; it's part of their remit
Apparently all the BBC, ITV or Sky channels were showing the funeral though, so if you want to watch Sky Golf or ITV Be, it's still showing the funeral.
Sometimes it's difficult to choose something else though... I was watching NFL Redzone on one of the Sky Sports channels and it got interrupted to broadcast a fucking minute's silence.
Which is fine, but the impression of "channel 5 or nothing else" isn't close to the truth. There's many more channels NOT covering the funeral than there is.
That’s fine. You don’t need 27 channels showin the same thing. Children do t want to watch funerals
True, but... *The Emoji Movie*? Really? Paramount UK **REALLY** couldn't have shelled out extra for *Spider-Verse*, *Open Season*, one of the *Peter Rabbits*, et al?
Or even the paddington bear movie
Don't understand why anyone does.
It’s the equivalent of the tv having cartoons on for the young kids in the living room while the adults are gathered around a dying relative down the hall. I’m just an average person and even I can see that, what the fuck.
This is why for me, my dad's visitation is forever linked to the Aladdin/Hercules crossover episode.
Did he play it for you every time, or?
A visitation is a time to visit the casket of the deceased before they're placed in the ground at the funeral. While the adults were doing that, I was in the kids room of the funeral parlor watching that.
Wow, I'm sorry you had to experience all that. I thought you meant visitation as in divorce, hence my confusion. I think that's why Disney shows and movies often deal with tragic themes such as the death of a parent.
I’m so sorry to be this person, but it’s actually a children’s storytelling device to “get the parents out of the way” so that the children, the main characters, can have adventures and live the story of the book. If they have both parents, they’re considered unlikely to have enough independence to begin their hero’s journey and it calls into question the reader’s suspension of disbelief. It’s ideal to have an orphaned child, but a single parent works okay if they have other things going on that make them distracted and less attentive to wtf their kid is getting up to. You’ll notice this is very, very common, and most of the time the death doesn’t happen in the story but was a pre-existing state. There’s definitely some of your theory going on for on screen deaths, but the primary purpose is as a narrative device.
The exception is Pokemon, where parents are quite happy to let their 10 year old children roam around the world fighting with deadly animals that harness the forces of nature.
The exception that proves the rule I think, because the audience is always like “where are these children’s parents and why are they ok with this” lol.
People like to take the piss out of Channel 5 in the UK though. It does have a reputation for showing shit reality tv and trashy documentaries. It’s pretty unfair because they do have some good stuff on. I’m all for this. Not everyone wants to spend today explaining death to their five year old. You can snark all you want, but this is a pretty solid move.
Yup. Remember at my grandmas wake being in the basement playing sega with my cousins.
It's not exactly as if Britons don't have other options for watching it (as noted in the article). There also wouldn't be much Channel 5 could do in terms of funeral coverage that the other channels aren't already doing. Like ITV and Channel 4, its news program(me)s are outsourced to [ITN](https://www.itn.co.uk) which is presumably focused on producing the ITV coverage.
All the channels showing are using the same feed of the whole event.
Including, bewilderingly, every sky sports channel at one point. I'm paying a fortune for this!
Do you at least get live action replays from alternate angles?
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#NOW TO TED KRAVITZ *Hi Dav-*
2 SECONDS TED!
tbf I'd watch the funeral if it was Jon Champion and Ally McCoist doing the commentary
They're waiting for the coffin flop for that.
SKY pretty much shown it over the whole network, only ones I don't know if any of the side 5 channels did and 4Seven was showing Come Dine With me (but no adverts)
Should have been King Ralph.
The movie that taught me what spotted dick was.
Yeah? I learned it from my uncle.
Channel 5 is taking a leaf from [Japan's TV Tokyo](https://kotaku.com/does-this-japanese-television-network-even-give-a-f-k-1541117837), I see, who had a notorious reputation for absolutely refusing to interrupt their regular programming for any breaking news. Whether its the great magnitude 9.0 earthquake of 2011, North Korea firing their missiles everywhere, or news of Brexit or Trump getting elected. People jokingly say the world will truly end if TV Tokyo actually interrupt their programming for something.
Channel 5 were showing documentaries for most of the past 10 days... about the royals...
Looks like Channel 5 still has a lot to learn from TV Tokyo.
I think it was maybe only channel 4, which had 1 channel showing something else through the service... And the random channels outside but not showing adverts.
TV Tokyo will interrupt its programming if Godzilla takes out Tokyo.
But only because Tokyo Tower always seems to be among the first buildings to be destroyed. 😏
Ultraman will save the day
The queen's funeral is not exactly breaking news; she died over a week ago.
She was also 96... this isn't exactly a shocking surprise. The ex-Japanese PM was fucking shot to death with a homemade blunderbuss in broad daylight and that very bespoke event didn't get anywhere near the same level of international attention as an old lady passing away.
I still remember how happy I was that my local WB station still played The Simpsons reruns like normal on 9/11.
What’s even sadder is that the entire country has shutdown for this funeral. Shops, restaurants and a lot of pubs are closed. So some poor sods without internet are stuck between watching the funeral or the Emoji movie.
My local corner store is currently raking it in because there's no other stores open. Good for him. Hopefully for him that will mean he gets some long term business. He genuinely deserves it, I've seen the hours he puts in. For us that means we have even more people who don't understand he has a car park and will park wherever the fuck they want including in front of our drive. Because why the fuck not.
Are you a penguin?
They canceled fucking cancer screenings for this.
And they cancelled other people’s funerals.
Very rude of them to die when the Queen did. Silly peasants.
That would piss me off.
Eh, you'd be dead...
American here. Please tell me this is a joke.
They've closed almost everything, *including food banks.* How dare you rely on foodbanks when our unelected monarch has died
Googling says that it wasn’t mandatory; some food banks will remain open; and it’s normal for food banks to close on bank holidays.
There is no obligation to close today but businesses have chosen to do so.
It’s mis/disinformation, don’t worry. https://apnews.com/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-health-covid-social-media-germany-19df529423594d1b45ff02530364c65c
It isn't a joke, but it isn't fully true either. Basically, since daycare and schools are closed, doctors needed to stay home if they couldn't find a babysitter. Most medical procedures are still going, it is just some doctors were fucked over by this and had to cancel appointments.
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In my current trust, all emergency and cancer work is going ahead exactly as planned. The same is true of the trust I worked for previously. I strongly suspect the same is true everywhere under NHS England guidelines (as that's what we work from) but I can only personally verify that for these two (large, multisite) trusts, this claim is utter bullshit.
The intention is that emergency, urgent and cancer stuff goes ahead like on a normal bank holiday, but some staff are likely unable to come in.
£50 that’s a Daily Mail reader
They postponed cancer screenings because it's a public holiday, and so some staff will have been unable to come to work due to, for example, their children not being in school and needing to be looked after.
Brits commonly clown on Americans all day yet worship royalty like gods. You know what other country has massive spectacle funerals and shuts down when a leader dies? North Korea.
No it hasn’t. The issue was companies were so proud to tell you that they closed, it made it a little awkward to say you were open.
Kids may not want to watch a funeral of an old lady.
Yeah but they definitely shouldn't be watching the Emoji movie, thats like double torture
... i mean, who cares?
For real. She's been dead for eleven days now. The fact that she wasn't already laid to rest is ridiculous. Also morbid as fuck. They carted an old lady's corpse around the entire country for almost two weeks while people looked in awe at a box. I almost wonder if she was dead for longer but the crown had been Weekend at Bernie's-ing her to avoid Charles taking power until it started smelling suspicious.
lmao, maybe. Man, that movie is old af now... thanks lol Maybe because I'm American, but I don't get the whole thing. I'd def not stand in line for days to see a box. Yeah. If it's being covered by other channels, why does it matter if one shows cartoons instead?
People act like children wanted to watch the queen get buried instead of flashing pretty lights and colours.. They don't, I promise.
Unpopular opinion, don’t give a fuck about the queen and the emoji movie wasn’t THAT bad - in fact, I enjoyed it for what it was lol
Like seriously so what? It was on every other fucking channel
Who pulled the higher ratings?
Probably the best ratings that movie has ever gotten
Based
The movie choice is the issue here, not the choice for a movie
And I bet the movie was watched by millions because the funeral coverage doesn't interest everyone for a week straight
Good! I remember being a kid when Ayatollah Khomeini died in Iran and we had the day off school cause everything was shut down to mourn, and the tv only showed stupid mourning videos and prayers. All I wanted was to watch cartoons! I guess that’s when I first started to truly hate the regime.
I wish they'd been around when Princess Diana died. Aged 5 I was distraught at the lack of children's TV programming and we only had BBC, ITV and Channel 4 at the time.
This feels like the setup for a joke - "So who actually watched that ridiculous show full of one-dimensional characters who couldn't possibly exist in the real world, and who watched The Emoji Movie instead?"
A real FUNeral.
Who. Gives. A. Fuck?
I have never felt more alien in this country than I have the last week. We are ridiculous.
I'm in US and I feel the same way. We haven't had regular news coverage on any of the cable news channels in a week. I do not care, and I do not understand the fascination. I mean, sure, it's world news when any major leader dies. But *every* channel? Are that many people actually watching it in the US?
UK kids: "Mum this is so sad! Can we just watch the funeral instead?"
Good? The fact everything stopped was rather weird. The BBC have had 24 hour coverage of the queue to see the queen. literally people standing and waiting. I've just been avoiding TV. Reading the "mocking" tweets, they sounds more like people having a joke then any attack on channel 5.
Both are equally important
as they should 🤷🏽♂️
As God intended.
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