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Di another day

Friday, August 17, 2007 by · Comments Off 

Hah! On Saturday 1 September, BBC Parliament are going to be rescreening – in full – the Beeb’s live coverage of Diana’s funeral. The channel’s best-ever ratings in the offing?

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Election ’92

Monday, April 9, 2007 by · Comments Off 

Fame may deal an inconsistently fleeting hand to practitioners of TV and politics, but when both worlds collide you see stardom at its most ephemeral. Read more

Election ’83

Friday, October 6, 2006 by · Comments Off 

At least they got the exit poll right. At the start of the coverage, David Dimbleby announced that the Conservatives were going to win the General Election with a majority of 146. At the end of the coverage, David Dimbleby announced that the Conservatives had won the General Election with a majority of 144. Read more

Election ’87

Monday, September 5, 2005 by · Comments Off 

The BBC’s exit poll from the 1992 General Election always gets slammed as the most inaccurate political prediction TV has ever made. Read more

Election ’74

Sunday, October 10, 2004 by · Comments Off 

The last time we looked in on Alastair, David, Bob and Robin the country had only two weeks of coal left and was “right on the edge of a ghastly disaster.” Read more

Election ’74

Friday, October 3, 2003 by · Comments Off 

More repeats on digital TV, then. But BBC Parliament’s real-time replays of General Election results coverage have been absolutely inspired programming. Read more

Election ’70

Friday, September 26, 2003 by · Comments Off 

One of the absolute TV highlights of last year was BBC Parliament’s screening of the BBC 1979 General Election results coverage. With the minimum of publicity and in a resolutely low-key fashion, the entire service was repeated minute by minute in real time. Read more

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