What is it with this royal wedding nonsense?

[Larry Sochrin]

When I tuned in at about 7:30 this morning, they were hyping the fact  
that Kate and William would be kissing on the balcony  when they got  
back to the Palace after the wedding.  Commentators pointed out that  
they had practiced this many times, specifically to get the camera  
angles right.  One network even ran a countdown clock to the kiss in  
the corner of the screen.  The clock disappeared 5 minutes before it  
hit zero for good reason, since the kiss actually happened  
significantly later.  I don't see how they could have rehearsed this,  
since the kiss was a quick, insignificant peck.  But my guess is that  
the countdown and the delay were all ways to just keep people tuned  
in.  Nonsense is right, but that countdown clock worked, since it  
even got me to stick with it, although I could care less.