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The eye of the Pudsey (November 2019)

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scottishtv Founding member
nigel posted:
Is this coming tonight from BBC Elstree Studio D again?

Yes.


Last edited by scottishtv on 15 November 2019 5:36pm
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radiolistener
It's a really dreadful evening. Always has been, always will be.

Tonnes of free advertising for major corporations and the main stars getting a good pay packet for their trouble.
BK
bkman1990
Amol Rajan is there as presenter on The One Show talking to the cast of Frozen 2 during it's CIN special episode.
CY
cylon6
radiolistener posted:
It's a really dreadful evening. Always has been, always will be.

Tonnes of free advertising for major corporations and the main stars getting a good pay packet for their trouble.

As a show it is worse and I have a theory why.

A lack of light entertainment and mainstream sitcom hits on BBC1 really is a problem. There's little for Children In Need to use on the night. So they have The Hit List and Crackerjack. Lord!
TI
TIGHazard
cylon6 posted:
radiolistener posted:
It's a really dreadful evening. Always has been, always will be.

Tonnes of free advertising for major corporations and the main stars getting a good pay packet for their trouble.

As a show it is worse and I have a theory why.

A lack of light entertainment and mainstream sitcom hits on BBC1 really is a problem. There's little for Children In Need to use on the night. So they have The Hit List and Crackerjack. Lord!


Have they ever done anything with Still Open All Hours?
JC
JCB
radiolistener posted:
It's a really dreadful evening. Always has been, always will be.

Tonnes of free advertising for major corporations and the main stars getting a good pay packet for their trouble.


Ok boomer
JK
JKDerry
TIGHazard posted:
cylon6 posted:
radiolistener posted:
It's a really dreadful evening. Always has been, always will be.

Tonnes of free advertising for major corporations and the main stars getting a good pay packet for their trouble.

As a show it is worse and I have a theory why.

A lack of light entertainment and mainstream sitcom hits on BBC1 really is a problem. There's little for Children In Need to use on the night. So they have The Hit List and Crackerjack. Lord!


Have they ever done anything with Still Open All Hours?

No, they have never done one
JK
JKDerry
Comic Relief tends to be that little bit better, as they attract more comedians and comedy shows for their night (no surprise as the title is Comic Relief) - Children in Need have really lost ground in recent years with content.
:-(
A former member
We do this every single year, Im on the side CIN is meh now. But it brings in more money than ever before so why would BBC change the format even if it's dire.. it get alot more money for very little effort.
CY
cylon6
JKDerry posted:
Comic Relief tends to be that little bit better, as they attract more comedians and comedy shows for their night (no surprise as the title is Comic Relief) - Children in Need have really lost ground in recent years with content.

Even Comic Relief is suffering from the lack of popular comedies to use.
AN
Andrew Founding member
JKDerry posted:
toby lerone 2016 posted:
PFMC84 posted:
I'm in a new flat with no satellite access so this year I won't have any way of not watching the NI version of BBC ONE. Can you simply change your region on iPlayer and live stream a different BBC ONE that way? If so, I might do that instead as the localised programmes mean you don't see the everything that network does and the local stuff is just not as interesting to me to watch.


But they don't have an NI opt out anymore, they come back to Northern Ireland the same time that the rest of the UK go to their regions. Thankfully they don't have a night with Hugo Duncan & Jackie Fullerton murdering songs and Stephen Nolan or Eamonn Holmes roaring rubbish down the camera.

2010 was the year it all changed for Northern Ireland's opt outs of the night, it all vanished from the start of the new decade.

I do remember those horrible years where Northern Ireland would have the first ten minutes from London at 7pm, and then from 7.10 until 1.00am it was controlled from Studio A at BBC Blackstaff House, and on many years the Northern Irish viewers would miss a lot of the networked sketches and routines.


Ironically, it’d be very easy for nations to do their own versions as very little takes place live in the studio these days, it’s just the presenters linking into appeal films and pre recorded clips, so they could do this themselves and not miss anything.
JK
JKDerry
Let us rewind back to 2009, ten years a go and look at what Children in Need offered for their telethon night then.

Friday 20th November 2019 on BBC One:

Sir Terry Wogan, Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon hosted for the night - with the stars of Strictly opening the show.

A special edition of the magical series Merlin
A special edition of Casualty
The launch of the official Children in Need single by Peter Kay and "a host of famous faces"
The cast of Hollyoaks rock TV Centre with their tribute to Queen
A peek at the 2009 Dr Who Christmas Special, the final one for David Tennant
The One Show team perform the street dance from Fame
A special edition of Dragons Den
Westlife perform live in the studio
A special edition of Lark Rise to Candleford with Terry Wogan in it
The cast of The Bill perform a rat pack classic
Eastenders cast celebrate the Magic of Motown
BBC Newsreaders perform their special dance and music routine

All that was on before the BBC News at Ten

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