Roger Moore Dead

[zebo]

BBC have interrunpted Manchester coverage to announce the death of Roger Moore. Appropriate?

[Lie-in King]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40018422

The world turns, other things happen, of course it's ok to announce it, it's a news programme & the Manchester coverage will continue.

RIP Sir Roger.

[Lynn_M]

Yes. Tragic though though the murders by Muslim terrorists may be, the world doesn't stop revolving. There is other news out there and they shouldn't keep it from us

[naomi24]

Ahhhh. I quite liked him. Quite a character in his old age.

[Mamyalynne]

I can't see it as inappropriate - events continue to happen each and every day.

RIP Roger.

[naomi24]

Of course it's appropriate. We can't stop reporting news just because something else has happened.

[Togo]

Proper Gent. Self deprecating and humorous to boot. RiP Roger Moore.

[douglas9401]

Of course it's appropriate, provided he has actually died.

[Islay]

Yes appropriate and sad

[-SharonA-]

Loved him as the Saint, but hated him as Bond. RIP.

[ladybirder]

If this was my thread you'd get BA for your 14.34 comment Douglas.

[hereIam]

You think he hasn't died ??

[naomi24]

Douglas always makes me laugh. :o)

[Arksided]

Another one taken by cancer, 89 was a good innings though.
RIP Roger Moore.

[mazie]

I loved him in Ivanhoe when I was a kid

RIP Roger

[New Judge]

Of course it’s appropriate.

The Manchester business is tragic. But the BBC goes completely over the top when outrages such as this occur. BBC news usually is not news at all but a series of government press releases, opposition press releases (at times of elections) and magazine type articles. It could be composed almost at any time. Rarely do you hear “this happened today” or that happened today”. When tragedies such as the Manchester incident occur they go into ridiculous overdrive. The actual news of the tragedy is a virtual one-liner: “xx people were killed today when a religious lunatic detonated a bomb at a pop concert”. The only “developments” would be the number dead and whether any arrests were made. The BBC goes a little further. We will see interviews with the second cousin to a bloke who lived round the corner from one of the victim’s mum. And so it goes on. Of course other news should be reported. But it rarely is (not on the BBC, anyway).

RIP Roger. He gave me a lot of laughs and was a great actor who was not at all up himself as so many Thespians are today.

[Togo]

Douglas, the thing is Roger Moore himself would laugh at your skit.

[woofgang]

He was “my" Bond, not forgetting The Saint and The Persuaders as well as Beau Maverick.

[sandyRoe]

He had a self depreciating sense of humour. But even so, I think he might raise an eyebrow at the suggestion his passing wasn't worth a mention because of other news items.

[zebo]

OK, I obviously have less regard for celebrity, I wouldn't have expected any programme to be interrupted for his death. I am old enough to remember him as Ivanhoe though and loved the Saint, he is top of my list as the worst Bond though.