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Children in Need 2007

November 16th 2007 (September 2007)

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Tumble Tower
BillyH posted:
I've hardly seen any of it these last few years, save for the Doctor Who specials, but it sounds so dire this year. What happened to the days when it wasn't just musical act/musical act/musical act? You had all the gimmicks in the mid 90s like 3D and 'Smellovision' which actually encouraged people to watch. Now it's a bit like a dinosaur, and one of the few amusing moments this decade was Tim Vine getting cut off after making jokes about hijacked planes in 2001 (two months after 9/11) in front of a stunned Gaby Roslin.

I suppose they can't complain as it's still getting money and it's still increasing every yeah, but...I dunno, maybe it's that I'm getting older, but it doesn't seem as fun and exciting anymore. We've gone from a special edition of Noel's House Party to a bunch of bored radio DJs 'playing' Never Mind the Buzzcocks to a dead audience with a sarcastic Chris Moyles.

Why are you complaining about the dominance of musical acts in Children In Need? I like them. What would YOU prefer to fill seven hours?

In past years they've had special editions of Antiques Roadshow, Butterflies and Changing Rooms. Not particularly my cup of tea.

If you had been in charge of planning this year's Children In Need appeal show, what would you have filled it with?

For your information, I watched it from 7pm until the end of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, approximately 10 past midnight. I watched the rest on video yesterday mid to late morning.
JO
Joe
Tumble Tower posted:
What would YOU prefer to fill seven hours?


Specials. If I wanted chart crap I would go onto YouTube and select a video, or if I was really stupid, go into a shop and pay for it.

CIN is 'special', and therefore should show something - special.

And I ask you - did you see any Changing Rooms the other night, or in the past few years?
SP
spud_nic
Looking on the backstage photos at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/onthenight/photos.shtml?page=3
It shows "Studio 6" - was TC6 used for Children in Need night? If so, what was it used for?

The main show was over in TC1, but I didn't realise TC6 was used as well?
MI
m_in_m
Was studio 6 possibly used for rehearsals or warm up for some of the acts? Where did London do their Children in Need from?
AG
AxG
m_in_m posted:
Was studio 6 possibly used for rehearsals or warm up for some of the acts? Where did London do their Children in Need from?

The London Transport Museum. (Thank god I had BBC One in Spain to watch)
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Tumble Tower posted:
BillyH posted:
I've hardly seen any of it these last few years, save for the Doctor Who specials, but it sounds so dire this year. What happened to the days when it wasn't just musical act/musical act/musical act? You had all the gimmicks in the mid 90s like 3D and 'Smellovision' which actually encouraged people to watch. Now it's a bit like a dinosaur, and one of the few amusing moments this decade was Tim Vine getting cut off after making jokes about hijacked planes in 2001 (two months after 9/11) in front of a stunned Gaby Roslin.

Why are you complaining about the dominance of musical acts in Children In Need? I like them. What would YOU prefer to fill seven hours?


I think the point Billy is trying to make is that wheeling on musical performer after musical performer and making it the focal point of the evening turns the entire production into an extended episode of Top Of The Pops.

This year for example, was very much back to back music especially in the first three hours. If you didn't have a performer singing something "live" (such as Wendi Peters) then you had the cast of EastEnders singing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band instead in a pre-recorded item.

In years gone by, there was more variety in the performances on offer - its only recently that programmes like these have become free promotional vehicles for the music industry, now that Top Of The Pops has finished.

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In past years they've had special editions of Antiques Roadshow, Butterflies and Changing Rooms. Not particularly my cup of tea.


And this, my friend, is what makes the world go round. You like the current musical performance trend and that's absolutely fine. Others like the more variety approach tried over the years, and that's fine too. If we all liked the same thing we wouldn't be debating it now.

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For your information, I watched it from 7pm until the end of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, approximately 10 past midnight. I watched the rest on video yesterday mid to late morning.


How interesting.

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