Tumble Tower

Last week's Grand Final
As you may rember, the final two couples were Tom & Camilla and Rachel & Vincent. They made it to the final two rounds: the group dance (Viennese Waltz) and the show dance (aka freestyle).

I'm so glad Tom & Camilla won. That's the couple I most wanted to win. Are you lot just as glad? Did any other TV Forumers want Rachel & Vincent to win instead?

Xmas Special
Who saw the Xmas Special on Xmas Day? I missed it at the time, but videoed it and saw it yesterday afternoon. Champions Tom & Camilla were the first couple to be announced as "definite losers" in the Xmas Special. Jill & Darren won the Xmas special. Wouldn't it have been lovely for Tom & Camilla to have won the 2008 series and 2008 Xmas special, but sadly that wasn't to be.

Next Year's Contenders
So who do you want to see next year? Here's my list. If you remember, this is the list I posted here last year as ones I wanted to see in the 2008 series. Since none of them appeared, here they are again. Hopefully I'll be second time lucky in seeing some of these in the 2009 series. We shall have too wait till September / October 2009 to see.

Jon Bentley , Jason Bradbury , Suzi Perry and/or Dallas Campbell from Five's The Gadget Show .
Pete Hillier from Boogie Beebies (if he can be instructor for a pre-schoolers' dance show, he's definitely got the talent to dance)
Chris Jarvis
Terry Wogan
Fearne Cotton
Huw Edwards (BBC newsreader)
Jessica Garlick (she sang for UK in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest, the UK's last entry to finish in the top five)
Chris Tarrant from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
Cliff Richard
Vernon Kay
Gary Wilmot (that's one I didn't have on my list last year, but he should be a good contender too).

For heaven's sake, no more GMTV celebrities please. After Kate Garraway was eliminated week 7 last year (2007) and Andrew Castle was eliminated week 7 this year (2008), it seems GMTV celbs can, at best, make it as far as week 7, and have no hope of reaching the quarter or semi-finals, let alone win.

Eurovision 2021 - Netherlands - NPO/AVROTROS/NOS

Here is my latest Eurovision video. This one contains my views on the song representing the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021: James Newman - "Embers".
Nemesis Nick Talks Eurovision: United Kingdom 2021

Comic Relief 2021

Today is Friday 19 March 2021 - Red Nose Day 2021. Yes everyone, another odd-numbered year means that two-yearly fundraising extravaganza for Comic Relief has come around again. Quite frankly though, as far as I'm concerned, today looks set to be just another plain, ordinary Friday. For starters, I'm not going to do anything silly with my hair or face, which is what people have been encouraged to do on Red Nose Day in past years. I've bought myself two Red Nose Day 2021 T-shirts from TK Maxx website (one grey Buzz T-shirt and one white Jessie T-shirt). I'm wearing my white Jessie T-shirt with pride today.

The Red Nose Day TV coverage looks a bit different this year to previous years. The main show will be on BBC One this evening from 19:00 to 22:00. After the news, The Great Comic Relief Prizeathon is on BBC One from 22:45 to 23:45. It's unclear whether that's a continuation of the main show, or a standalone show connected with Comic Relief 2021. After that, BBC One will be showing Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance at 23:45, followed by Billy Monger's Big Red Nose Day Challenge from 00:30 to 01:30. In addition, BBC Two is showing Later - with Jools Holland for Comic Relief from 22:00 to 22:45, presumably intended as a filler against the news. All in all, an interesting looking line-up this evening. However this has left me wondering if the "proper" Red Nose Day show, with general entertainment, appeal films, money raised by Sainsbury's, TK Maxx, etc, running totals and so on is just from 19:00 to 22:00. For some mysterious reason, the three separate shows from 22:45 onwards (the last two of which I've noticed are marked as repeats in the TV listing I've seen) look like a replacement for having a continuous live "part two" show from 22:45 to well after midnight.

The question is, will any of tonight's line-up be worth watching? Each odd-numbered year from 2003 to 2015 I watched it off-air until late (usually midnight) and the rest on video next day. Looking back, I don't know how I tolerated sitting through them, because each time I thought the shows were predominantly a load of utter stupidity and tommyrot. Many of the sketches over the years have been terrible (e.g. Simon Cowell's wedding in 2013, Mr. Bean at the funeral in 2015). Unlike Children in Need TV shows in November, the Red Nose Day TV shows over the years featured very few pop songs (however in 2009 there was a Top of the Pops Red Nose Day special on BBC Two whilst the 10 o'clock News was on BBC One). I didn't bother watching any part of the Red Nose Day TV Shows in 2017 and 2019 as I thought the entertainment would be just as bad, if not worse.

For those of you who are fundraising for Red Nose Day 2021 today (within current lockdown rules / guidelines), happy fundraising.