CHILDREN IN NEED - 2012

You tend to find that most acts/performances/guests on CiN are there at least in part to plug something. That will be why the Avenue Q cast weren't on.

Obviously... AvenueQ was an example... I noticed he turned up in that slot instead.

That and the fact that there is no 'Avenue Q cast'!

Although it does seem a shame that the post-theatre slot doesn't exist these days, it does seem beneficial all round - the shows get to plug themselves, CIN gets to fill time with somethign entertaining and presumably they arrive with collections from the theatre too

There seems to be a general scaling back of the "live" element of the show this year. Only a handful of musical acts (no bad thing really, at one point it was about all there was) and loads and loads of pre-records. Even the Moyles thing was on tape as he was doing his tour on Friday night. Comic Relief did something similar last time around too - for that it made sense as they could immediately flog the pre-recorded sketches on iTunes to raise cash, but there was nothing similar for CiN. Is the amount of budget the Beeb "gifts" the live show reducing somewhat so they don't, for example, have the resources to do all the theatre slots post-midnight anymore? Pure speculation on my part but it does make you wonder.

Silly question regarding the Chris Moyles skit. I knew that he was on tour and performing that night, but as shown it looked like it was performed before a studio audience on the same set as the rest of the show was broadcast from.
Question is, was he green screened in or did the Beeb film this and the interview in front of a different recording?

BBC Audiences were looking for an audience earlier in the week for Chris's segment at TVC.

I'm guessing the Moyles thing would need some post-production to add Morecambe and Wise, so it would have to be a pre-rec.

Are you saying that the live audience saw nothing but Chris Moyles dancing and talking to himself? I find that very unlikely.

There may have been some screens out of shot showing M&W, but I very much suspect it was composited in post.

I was in the audience for the Moyles pre-rec on Thursday and there certainly wasn't anything done to it in the edit, that was very much how it looked on-stage, in fact it looked more impressive in the audience than it did on TV. It was pretty surreal when he first walked behind the screen before the holograms came on, it almost looked like he was being projected onto it.

Just seen the Behind the Scenes video http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0119h1j and it's a lot more impressive than I thought technically!