3) Not sure - there was a late film interrupted with news of the crash, but the actual announcement of her death came during BBC1's simulcast of BBC World News.
I bow to the Hughes on this, though I do remember the overnight news service being interrupted/taken mainstream because of the crash. Confirmation of her death wasn't until 5am though.
I might be mistaken but I remember BBC One announcing the Pope's death after Doctor Who (as had coincidentally been the case a week earlier with James Callaghan), which would have been earlier than Casualty. Not sure about other channels -BBC Two would probably have had something like Porridge on at that time.
Oh, and getting back to Diana, I believe the film was Borsalino starring Alain Delon. Don't ask me how I remember that, I wasn't watching it or owt.
I was enjoying an episode of Steptoe and Son, which I hadn't seen before, on BBC2 when it was curtailed by the announcement of the Queen Mother's death - I still haven't seen the end of that particular episode... :(
Course, a few weeks before the Queen Mum, we had Princess Margaret, which happened at 8.30 on a Saturday morning, when News 24 was on BBC2 anyway, but BBC1 interrupted a cartoon to join in, but it was in the middle of its obit, so they had to play the balloons for about two minutes.
And GMTV did nothing, because nobody's there on a Saturday morning.
The announcement of the outbreak of hostilities in the first Gulf War broke into ITV's late night Premiership highlights programme - Aston Villa vs Leeds United, to be precise.
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1) Auntie's Bloomers
2) Casualty
3) Not sure - there was a late film interrupted with news of the crash, but the actual announcement of her death came during BBC1's simulcast of BBC World News.
I bow to the Hughes on this, though I do remember the overnight news service being interrupted/taken mainstream because of the crash. Confirmation of her death wasn't until 5am though.
I'm also angling for a bonus point for knowing that the birth of Prince Harry was announced on a caption during The Tripods.
Another bonus point if anyone knows what happened on other BBC TV channels when news broke that the Pope died.
They cut to a clearly unprepared Peter Sissons stumbling through the announcement?
I might be mistaken but I remember BBC One announcing the Pope's death after Doctor Who (as had coincidentally been the case a week earlier with James Callaghan), which would have been earlier than Casualty. Not sure about other channels -BBC Two would probably have had something like Porridge on at that time.
Oh, and getting back to Diana, I believe the film was Borsalino starring Alain Delon. Don't ask me how I remember that, I wasn't watching it or owt.
Ah, I remember now - it was a caption, slung up over The Quatermass Experiment on BBC4.
There's some useful information here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/memoryshare/oxford/A30221029
I was enjoying an episode of Steptoe and Son, which I hadn't seen before, on BBC2 when it was curtailed by the announcement of the Queen Mother's death - I still haven't seen the end of that particular episode... :(
Course, a few weeks before the Queen Mum, we had Princess Margaret, which happened at 8.30 on a Saturday morning, when News 24 was on BBC2 anyway, but BBC1 interrupted a cartoon to join in, but it was in the middle of its obit, so they had to play the balloons for about two minutes.
And GMTV did nothing, because nobody's there on a Saturday morning.
The announcement of the outbreak of hostilities in the first Gulf War broke into ITV's late night Premiership highlights programme - Aston Villa vs Leeds United, to be precise.
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