BBC Lottery Draw studio invaded by Fathers4Justice

Can someone explain in words of less than 'OMG', what exactly happened?

The thread title says BBC1 was taken off air, yet then you refer to Alan Deadicoat continuing to talk throughout the incident?

They were just about do the draw, when LOTS of shouting occured in the background, and sarah cawood stepped out of shot and the cameras went wild and then focused tightly on the lotto machine before cutting to the still of the Jet set logo, and then they cut the audio from the studio, leaving alan ad-libbing brilliantly for around 90 secs with the echo of his voice.

there were at least 2 protesters, one was a woman holding up a banner and shouting. Then crew members with headphones rush the set and the sounds of scuffles are heard while the cameras go wild.

That was brilliant TV.

I noticed one of the girls had an upside down lottery logo on her t-shirt.

Alan is a true professional

you never know guys maybe that strange paul who keeps popping up here was involved

maybe he wants to host the lottery with a blue peter puppet whilst matt baker hosts parkinsonD

Alan Dedicoat is a true legend, and is worth every single penny of our licence fee. Unlike Moyles or Kaplinsky...

They were just about to do the draw when there was shouting off camera. a man holding up some sort of banner and wearing a t-shirt with 'National Lottery' style (red and blue) writing on it was standing in the middle of the stage shouting.

They cut back to Eamon and the woman presenter with stagehands running past, then the floor manager stood in the middle of the stage and shouted some instructions (the mics had been cut by this point), Eamon and the other presenter walked around the back of the machine to get off the set and they cut away to a slide with Alan Dedicoat filling for a couple of minutes




The thread title is misleading. The programme was interrupted but the channel and the studio for that matter stayed on air

I would be grateful if there are any captures as I totally missed it.
Thank you.

It's running on the news channels sporadically at the moment.

I bet the BBC will be glad when this week is over, they keep making their own news! First there was the wrong guest on News 24, now protesters on the Lottery, and both being at the same time as having no entertainment licence, what will happen next!

notice the BBC website isn't reporting it (YET)

ITV are: http://www.itv.com/news/britain_788487.html and apparently Talksport are talking about the protest too

Full credit to Eamonn Holmes and Sarah Cawood and especially to Alan Dedicoat - true pro's in the heat of the moment - Can't help wondering where the studio security was and how the heck do these people manage to get thru.?