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A Night of fundraising again. (November 2018)

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AN
Andrew Founding member
Brekkie posted:
It is of no advantage to Children in Need to move to the West End. The set isn't the issue - it's the content and the hosts.

In replacing the irreplaceable Wogan with around 7 people a year there isn't the connection there needs to be between the hosts and the event. Focusing on fewer hosts would just make it a bit more streamlined and as others have said the choice is fairly obvious from their line up of the last couple of years. Ship Tess off to Blackpool early and have her involvement be the CiN special, but from Blackpool instead. Indeed they could make the Strictly Blackpool show a non-elimination week and have the show come under the CiN umbrella on the Saturday with the acts dancing to raise cash rather than for votes.


You have to wonder why they have different hosts throughout the evening, why can't they have one set all night, or at least one set before the news and one after.

Many presenters host long shows, so they should be perfectly capable of hosting a 3 hour show, especially with all the VT inserts.
MR
mr_vivian
I think they really needed to have a proper replacement for Terry - perhaps Graham Norton maybe.

But as I say you couldn't replace Terry - Terry cared about the charity so much more than anyone else - he went above and beyond for it - these presenters just pop up for an hour or two and that's their good deed done for the year.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Andrew posted:
You have to wonder why they have different hosts throughout the evening, why can't they have one set all night, or at least one set before the news and one after.


Presumably to continue the narrative that Sir Terry was irreplaceable, and because it would need to be somebody else who fits into that national treasure category and who is universally tolerated by the public. Having a mixture means that somebody who doesn't like Graham Norton (for example) isn't turned off for the whole evening.
MR
mr_vivian
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Andrew posted:
You have to wonder why they have different hosts throughout the evening, why can't they have one set all night, or at least one set before the news and one after.


Presumably to continue the narrative that Sir Terry was irreplaceable, and because it would need to be somebody else who fits into that national treasure category and who is universally tolerated by the public. Having a mixture means that somebody who doesn't like Graham Norton (for example) isn't turned off for the whole evening.


It's probably for the best they do it this way. I can't tolerate most of them for more than an hour.
LS
Lou Scannon
The Tezzas and Brucies of this world have gradually died out (literally).

Perhaps nobody who has come to prominence within the past X years/decades has the whole "universally tolerated" thing, and nor will there ever be such a person again?

In which case it'll never again be "safe" to let just one particular current presenter/entertainer front a whole marathon show, as there's nobody who wouldn't be at least slightly "divisive" a choice from the potential audience's perspective.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
I think there are a few, but they tend to have golden handcuffs deals at ITV. I don't think Phillip Schofield or Ant and Dec (well, perhaps Dec now) are particularly divisive.

Dermot O'Leary perhaps?
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
Bradley Walsh could probably carry this entire show.
BR
Brekkie
Association with the charity is important so it has to be Pudsey.
VM
VMPhil
Nobody mentioned Greg Scott yet?
JA
james-2001
At least Tumble Tower hasn't appeared to reccomend Jimmy Cricket or Little and Large.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Brekkie posted:
Association with the charity is important so it has to be Pudsey.


I think Peter Levy used to live in my home town (after which the bear was named) at one stage?
JM
JamesM0984
Dermot O' Leary would be my choice - definitely not divisive and probably the most professional and capable live television presenter we have to offer in the UK.

Which is precisely why X Factor rehired him pretty quickly after Flack and Murs who were like today's answer to the 1989 Brits.

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