EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: BBC, ITV and Sky could call Palace’s bluff over coronation copyright

The BBC and rival broadcasters have apparently complied with Buckingham Palace’s demand that they restrict themselves to an hour’s compilation of the Queen’s funeral footage. 

However, with filming of subsequent yr’s Coronation on the starting stage, the BBC might be a part of forces with ITV and Sky and name the Palace’s bluff – refusing to cowl the occasion until the royal copyright is rescinded. 

Because the Palace can hardly afford to rent an impartial operation to broadcast the occasion, it could most probably drop the copyright demand. Courtiers are all too conscious that being seen, because the late Queen noticed, is important.

In 2018 Prince Andrew cajoled broadcasters to cowl daughter Eugenie’s Windsor wedding ceremony to Jack Brooksbank. Coming simply 5 months after the marriage of Harry and Meghan, there was little enthusiasm, with ITV’s This Morning lastly overlaying it whereas BBC1 confirmed Properties Underneath The Hammer. 

Copyright remained with the Palace. Throughout negotiations over Andrew’s Newsnight look his group toyed with the thought of retaining copyright on that too – one thing the BBC wouldn’t have agreed to. Andrew, as he informed everybody, was media-savvy and thought it pointless. What might probably go incorrect?

Citing Carrie Fisher’s interment in an enormous Prozac tablet container, Anneka Rice, pictured, desires to be buried in a coffin-shaped Problem Anneka truck from her BBC present. 

‘My children should create the truck and place my physique in it,’ she says. 

Somebody whisper in Anneka’s shell-like that Carrie’s stays couldn’t slot in her favorite Prozac tablet field. It was used as an urn for her ashes.

Follically-challenged King-in-Ready Prince William has been dethroned because the world’s sexiest bald man with Vin Diesel changing him within the high spot in search engine optimisation company Reboot’s survey. 

Fellow actors Stanley Tucci and Shemar Moore are runners-up together with rapper Pitbull. William is fifth with a rib-tickling cranial shine issue of 60 per cent.

Leaping to the defence of Radio 4 At the moment presenter Justin Webb in his rebuttal of colleague Amol Rajan’s declare that the BBC has too many posh accents, Charles Moore accuses Rajan of being the voice of the brand new ruling class. ‘He isn’t very understandable,’ wails Lord Moore. 

‘His accent swallows its phrases and thinks it uncool to enunciate consonants. I perceive each phrase uttered by Webb or his co-presenter Mishal Husain: I miss about one in 5 of Rajan’s. That’s not good broadcasting.’ Cambridge-educated Rajan is posher than he admits, claims Moore, including: ‘He chooses to sound as if he’s attempting to promote you issues off a barrow.’

Standing Quo’s Francis Rossi, requested if he was jealous of Elton, Rod and Mick’s knighthoods, tells Traditional Rock journal that simply earlier than he and bandmate Rick Parfitt received OBEs in 2010, he was informed they had been in line for increased gongs. ‘Rick was a naughty boy, as standard,’ recollects Francis. ‘I can’t inform you what he did but it surely wasn’t notably good. So it was a case of “You’ll be able to’t have that one, however you possibly can have this one as an alternative.”’