children in need

Did they do a regional link up for the song the one year, or am I confusing it with something else?

Yep the idea is not to miss any of the big acts. Any that are, e.g. the Emmerdale sketch, will be replayed during a later opt.

Not sure what that thing at 2am on the BBC website is though - no one's told me about it!

Notice Pudsey on the TVF homepage.

So the BBC newsreaders are doing a peformance of Bohemian Rhapsody. Are they running out of ideas? They did this before, about 10 years ago.

Jill Dando actually sang the line "put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he's dead" (I know that sounds like a sick joke but it's absolutely true). In fact there were theories that Barry George killed Dando because he thought she'd ridiculed his idol Freddie Mercury in the performance she gave.

EDIT: Sorry, it was actually done in 1993 for Comic Relief, not CiN. More info here

Knowing the usual level of cynicism on this forum, I'm surprised so many here appear to love Children In Need so much.

For me it has to be the most nauseating evening of television of the year. Aside from the irritation of so-called celebrities 'giving up their time' to massage their own egos and further their careers, it's just an evening of plain terrible television.

Looking at the CIN website, 'treats' tonight include, Status Quo at RAF Brize Norton (an Alan Partridge idea if I ever heard one), The Casualty Cast doing some kind of song/dance routine (again); Sam Mitchell from EastEnders sings a song (riveting); the cast of The Archers perform a mini-episode live in the studio (forget Live 8, this *is* the event of the year); Emmerdale favourite Amy Nuttall performs music from My Fair Lady (anything good on Create & Craft TV?), oh, and of course there's the bum-winkingly embarrassing singing newsreaders.

I've nothing against raising money for charity (although I suspect other equally deserving charities lose out because they don't have their own night of prime-time television), but why does the BBC have to lower its standards to such an extent for it? Why not raise money by making *good* television?

I know some people on this forum might be getting moist at the thought of an extra regional opt and a chance to see Peter Levy pretending to enjoy sitting in a bath of baked beans (or something equally wacky and original), but let's not pretend that this is a wonderful night of entertainment. It's just awful.

Does anyone know what time the proformace will be on at tonight on BBC London?

Just after 11pm.

I agree with all of this. I don't doubt it raises a lot of money, but for me, charitable giving is a personal thing. I don't need a 7 hour television marathon funded by me and every other licence fee payer to encourage me to part with my hard earned cash. No singing or dancing newsreader will enthuse me to do that.

The One to avoid for me tonight.

Summing it all up really is the radio advert for CiN they've been playing on Radio 1.

It says how you will see the stars of EastEnders as you've never seen before, well never since last CiN I suppose!

Cut in are Jon Culshaw doing impressions of Blair and Bush. Like we've never heard those impressions before!

Talking about the regional opts, are they very short again this year?
At one time they were quite lengthy (Peter Levy hosting Bears in your eyes live from the West Yorkshire Playhouse), other years very short (Just Tom Ingall with a recorded package of fundraising highlights that we'd already seen on Look North)

Scotland can never time the opts properly. Half the performances are cut off.

Have you not read a sing post in this tread? Everyone says it's awful TV

Scotlands opts are shockingly bad and they wreck the flow of the entire night. Jackie maybe be fab but the scotland content makes Look North's old stuff from 94 look quality.