The BBC tend to be up the Pope's arse at the best of times. ITV not so much, maybe because they don't depend on license money for their existence, so they can afford to be a little less crawly. Of course, the same can be said about the media's love affair with royalty and other assorted celebrity parasites du jour.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'