Even in these mind-numbingly boring times, if I was reduced to watching a five minute ceremony, spread over about three hours, I think I'd go down to the gun room and take the easy way out.
The BBC begins its "build up" at 3:30pm. Coverage goes on until 6pm (with no doubt all the usual post-match analysis that can accompany reports of a man reading a 70 word prepared statement). What's on at 6pm? The news. What will the news consist of? Well there's the dilemma. Do they continue with their post-match analysis of the new President's swearing in ceremony? Or do they cut to the usual footage of people laying in whatever intensive care unit the film crew has settled on today, interspersed with a few shots in the morgue? What a decision to have to make. I imagine there will be quite a few people flooded out or with their roofs blown off courtesy of storm Christoph. But I doubt they will get a look-in.