HC
T'was always thus though. It's the fatal flaw with these 'money can't buy/once in a lifetime' prize packages.
Even when Sir Terry was doing the auction, no way could 99.99% of the listenership join in, as it was always the same 'well off home counties set' that would start off the bidding with a price that most would bulk at.
It's the radio equivalent of walking around the really expensive departments at Harrods. You are allowed in - but within a few minutes, you don't really belong there.
Worse, the production team probably know who will be on the phone bidding tens of thousands to win that particular lot. Why not just organise a lunch in London somewhere, and all the usual bidding suspects turn up and have the auction amongst themselves afterwards.
Then use the air time saved by auctioning far lower value prizes (value between £100-300) which most listeners can probably afford, rather than ones which are totally unaffordable.
Even when Sir Terry was doing the auction, no way could 99.99% of the listenership join in, as it was always the same 'well off home counties set' that would start off the bidding with a price that most would bulk at.
It's the radio equivalent of walking around the really expensive departments at Harrods. You are allowed in - but within a few minutes, you don't really belong there.
Worse, the production team probably know who will be on the phone bidding tens of thousands to win that particular lot. Why not just organise a lunch in London somewhere, and all the usual bidding suspects turn up and have the auction amongst themselves afterwards.
Then use the air time saved by auctioning far lower value prizes (value between £100-300) which most listeners can probably afford, rather than ones which are totally unaffordable.
SW
The ratings for all programmes have gone down, because fewer people are watching terrestrial television, so that's hardly any kind of indication of general dissatisfaction with the show itself. If anything it's suggesting that the audience is more engaged with it because they're donating more.
I don't agree with this, to be honest. In the nineties Wogan said in his autobiography that he felt the big bosses at the Beeb weren't very enthusiastic about Children In Need and they always asked them if they could make it more like Comic Relief because that was more exciting. Certainly in the mid-nineties it wasn't much of a draw, it was always thrashed in the ratings and got very little coverage outside the night itself - it wouldn't even get a Radio Times article some years. I used to read more about it in Fast Forward than the Radio Times, and nobody fashionable would go on it. In 1992 the actual amount raised went down five million pounds year on year and people were wondering if it was worth carrying on. Saying it was any better, or more relevant, in the past is looking at it with rose-tinted glasses. In the nineties it was a right contractual obligation.
And for all those saying the Rickshaw Challenge is "boring", what do you replace it with? The main aims of the thing are, first by several million miles to raise money for the charity, then to illustrate where the money goes, cover the whole country and fill up a week of build-up. What else do people suggest they can do which ticks all those boxes? The fact they're on a rickshaw is neither here nor there, the point is to raise money and awareness. My mum is watching it this year as she knows one of the participants, and those and the locations change every year.
I find it amazing people are saying it's "tired" and "the same every year" when the person who dominated the whole thing from beginning to end died last year.
That isn't what you said earlier. If people aren't understanding the points you want to make, you need to make them more clearly.
The fact the ratings go down every year but the money raised goes up suggests to me that the actual telethon is becoming less and less relevant.
The ratings for all programmes have gone down, because fewer people are watching terrestrial television, so that's hardly any kind of indication of general dissatisfaction with the show itself. If anything it's suggesting that the audience is more engaged with it because they're donating more.
Children in Need used to be much better in the late 80s into the late 90s. The whole night now seems to be dwarfed each year by either Comic Relief on the odd years and Sport Relief on the even years.
I don't agree with this, to be honest. In the nineties Wogan said in his autobiography that he felt the big bosses at the Beeb weren't very enthusiastic about Children In Need and they always asked them if they could make it more like Comic Relief because that was more exciting. Certainly in the mid-nineties it wasn't much of a draw, it was always thrashed in the ratings and got very little coverage outside the night itself - it wouldn't even get a Radio Times article some years. I used to read more about it in Fast Forward than the Radio Times, and nobody fashionable would go on it. In 1992 the actual amount raised went down five million pounds year on year and people were wondering if it was worth carrying on. Saying it was any better, or more relevant, in the past is looking at it with rose-tinted glasses. In the nineties it was a right contractual obligation.
And for all those saying the Rickshaw Challenge is "boring", what do you replace it with? The main aims of the thing are, first by several million miles to raise money for the charity, then to illustrate where the money goes, cover the whole country and fill up a week of build-up. What else do people suggest they can do which ticks all those boxes? The fact they're on a rickshaw is neither here nor there, the point is to raise money and awareness. My mum is watching it this year as she knows one of the participants, and those and the locations change every year.
I find it amazing people are saying it's "tired" and "the same every year" when the person who dominated the whole thing from beginning to end died last year.
I do hope people haven't misunderstood. I have no gripes with Fundraiser/people who raise the money/people who give money (who all do wonderful jobs), but with the current formulaic way the actual content is pushed out.
That isn't what you said earlier. If people aren't understanding the points you want to make, you need to make them more clearly.
:-(
A former member
Someone pointed Thats out to me, although there were able to fully understand what I was trying to get across while also understanding why some people might have been confused.
BA
The lowest winning bid for the Rick Astley tickets was around £700 for a pair. Not exactly insane money.
HC
Low value stuff like signed scripts from Casualty or Eastenders, be in the audience for The One Show and meet the star guest for warm wine and nibbles afterwards, VIP tickets to a gig, I don't have a problem with, as whilst 'expensive' it's in the ball park of put in a bid and pay for it.
It's the 'chauffeur driven car from home to Heathrow, first class return flights to Los Angeles and transfers to a five star hotel, playing beach Volleyball with the cast of Homeland, a background extra apperance in an upcoming episode, and a meal in a restaurant cooked by Rick Stein on a barbecue overlooking Venice Beach at sunset, followed by a trip to NASA mission control in Heuston on to read out the football scores to the astronounts on the International Space Station, etc etc' that I have a problem with.
It's the 'chauffeur driven car from home to Heathrow, first class return flights to Los Angeles and transfers to a five star hotel, playing beach Volleyball with the cast of Homeland, a background extra apperance in an upcoming episode, and a meal in a restaurant cooked by Rick Stein on a barbecue overlooking Venice Beach at sunset, followed by a trip to NASA mission control in Heuston on to read out the football scores to the astronounts on the International Space Station, etc etc' that I have a problem with.
RD
Some of the performances on Friday are going to be pre-recorded on Wednesday. This included the musical performance from Annie, a performance by Rita Ora and a musical performance by The Leading Ladies.
This is as per the BBC Shows website who advertised for tickets here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/children_in_need_insert_2017
Therefore this together with many of the advertised pre-records like Strictly and The Weakest Link will be making up the bulk of the show. There doesn't look like there will be too much that will actually be live on the night.
This is as per the BBC Shows website who advertised for tickets here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/children_in_need_insert_2017
Therefore this together with many of the advertised pre-records like Strictly and The Weakest Link will be making up the bulk of the show. There doesn't look like there will be too much that will actually be live on the night.
GO
There are pre-recorded studio performances pretty much every year.
Some of the performances on Friday are going to be pre-recorded on Wednesday. This included the musical performance from Annie, a performance by Rita Ora and a musical performance by The Leading Ladies.
This is as per the BBC Shows website who advertised for tickets here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/children_in_need_insert_2017
Therefore this together with many of the advertised pre-records like Strictly and The Weakest Link will be making up the bulk of the show. There doesn't look like there will be too much that will actually be live on the night.
This is as per the BBC Shows website who advertised for tickets here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/children_in_need_insert_2017
Therefore this together with many of the advertised pre-records like Strictly and The Weakest Link will be making up the bulk of the show. There doesn't look like there will be too much that will actually be live on the night.
There are pre-recorded studio performances pretty much every year.
BR
It is for Rick Astley tickets.
The lowest winning bid for the Rick Astley tickets was around £700 for a pair. Not exactly insane money.
It is for Rick Astley tickets.
BA
It is for Rick Astley tickets.
It depends how far away you want to see him, I suppose.
The lowest winning bid for the Rick Astley tickets was around £700 for a pair. Not exactly insane money.
It is for Rick Astley tickets.
It depends how far away you want to see him, I suppose.
DV
This year will be telling, last year many tuned in, in loyalty to Sir Terry, and the inevitable tributes and references throughout. Twelve months on, I suspect many of those will move on and the audience will drop accordingly.
As for comparisons with the 'reliefs', it must be remembered that they attract major commercial sponsorship directly, CiN does too but very much on the matched funding basis with employees and as a result this aspect is much less effective.
We'll see on Saturday the outcome, in terms of monies raised and also audience reach.
As for comparisons with the 'reliefs', it must be remembered that they attract major commercial sponsorship directly, CiN does too but very much on the matched funding basis with employees and as a result this aspect is much less effective.
We'll see on Saturday the outcome, in terms of monies raised and also audience reach.