Question Time is temporarily ditching the audience – 7 biting responses
With the experts now advising people to avoid all non-essential contact with others, the BBC’s political panel show, Question Time, decided it couldn’t risk the health of its audience – presumably because half of them have important EDL marches coming up.
Here’s how they made the announcement.
Question Time will continue without studio audience during coronavirus outbreakhttps://t.co/QlU3eX7fiR
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 17, 2020
Having been receiving increasing criticism, recently, for the partisan nature of the audience, it wasn’t exactly devastating to the public.
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Not a great sign when a pandemic actually improves your show pic.twitter.com/U06kCclaqg
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) March 17, 2020
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The word ‘lose’ is doing a fucking huge amount of heavy lifting here. pic.twitter.com/q3r2dsArwL
— 🏳️🌈 Max 🏳️🌈 (@SpillerOfTea) March 17, 2020
3.
Next week: No panel
The week after: A dishevelled Fiona Bruce, in her darkened home, wordlessly cleaning her fingernails with a kitchen knife. https://t.co/KjTiUczxm0— Andrew R (@ExcelPope) March 17, 2020
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Even far right gatherings are being shut down https://t.co/57hOfoMxKQ
— Ed Poole (@edwardpoole1975) March 17, 2020
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All we need to do now is get rid of the panellists and the host and we've cracked it. https://t.co/jYLNb92SBK
— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) March 17, 2020
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"Okay, our first question on the telephone, we have Tommy R from Luton, Tommy, what's your question?"
"Hi Fiona, I was just wanted to ask the panel if we should bring in the army to shoot foreigners and communists?" https://t.co/H9hLBXFr1l
— Jack Saundrs ❤🖤 (@jack_saundrs) March 17, 2020
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The only genuine coronavirus upside I can think of is that by as early as next week, BBC Question Time could be audience free.
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) March 16, 2020
Of course, the usually mobile programme will broadcast from one location, now that it has no need to host an audience.
Apparently #bbcquestiontime is looking for a permanent home during the crisis. Obviously it should be broadcast from #cchq you know, cut out the interfering plebs who obfuscate the message.
— Dean Williamson (@ButchTwizzles) March 17, 2020
Empire editor, Chris Hewitt pointed out why the lack of fresh audience members probably won’t matter.
I would have assumed they'd stockpiled enough gammon to last the next few months. https://t.co/Ni6kwDXS94
— Chris Hewitt (@ChrisHewitt) March 17, 2020
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The look on the guy’s face next to the ranting Question Time woman was just perfect
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