We may all still be in the dark about who has won the election, but there's one important question we can try to answer this morning: who provided the best television coverage?
Sky, ITV and the BBC all gave us their best stab at analysis, with varying degrees of success while Channel 4 gave us "alternative" coverage, presumably on the assumption that nothing much ever happens until 1am – although the protesting disenfranchised in fact provided plenty of pre-results interest.
Whose coverage had the most to recommend it? The BBC with its huge number of gimmicks – the massive studio, the giant iPad, animated dominoes and paving stones, Andrew Neil's Love Boat bobbing on the Thames – had Dimbleby and Paxman in its favour.
ITV appeared to have recycled a local news set, with about 1% of the BBC's coloured-light allocation, and featured mainly grey men in grey suits on a grey background, but did a decent job of explaining what was going on. Sky sent its big guns out with the leaders, leaving Adam Boulton to anchor at HQ. Channel 4, for all it had a touch of the CD:UKs about it, at least delivered some decent gags.
So which channel did you watch most of? Who surprised and impressed you? And which bits of the coverage irritated you? Let us know who won the TV election battle.
