Children in Need

Is that Dougie Vipond on drums? If it is, for the love of God keep him and never let him do sports reporting for BBC Scotland again. Please?

By the way, I have to say the regional opt-outs are a terrible idea. People in Scotland aren't that parochial, we want to see what passes for quality entertainment down south rather than some complete River City actors and complete nobodies (the difference being?). God knows we're struggling enough on this show on the network version - we don't need a microcosm version which is even worse.

I was in the audience in Blackstaff in Belfast for the 7 to 9 slot. There's a rather funny shot of my friends and I looking distinctly unimpressed at the end of the Westlife performance, amid hordes of screaming girls. Its easy to be cynical, but all in all I have to say we had a very enjoyable evening.. I never thought I'd find myself cheering at such non entities as Sonia and Spyro, but thats the power of the clap-a-long for you.

So final total of the evening raises roughly:

£18m

Not bad and obviously the Beeb ends with that old favourite song, Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros.

Please no Kerplunk and Fearne next year.

Interesting that they do a total raised so far count ten minutes before the programme is due to end and it appears the total is down from last year so what happens, the show gets extended twenty minutes until 2:!5 and if by magic, they beat last years total.

SKY EPG's at the 1:55 Weatherview showing up until they went into News 24 at about 2:20.

and I thought I was the only person who still kept it. Actually I still got two pairs of those 3D-glasses they did the previous year.

Did anyone else see South Today's OB at 18:30 to 18:55 from Portsmouth ?
It was a superb piece of 'car crash' TV, almost on a par with the Look East disaster a couple of years back.

for the benefit of the rest of the country what happened?

bearing in mind we can't get south today or look east in Cumbria.

18 million is pretty good but didn't they get 21 million 1 year. I remember it being an event when they got 1 million.

I seem to remember those high numbers in the early 90s. Then I think in 1994, it crashed right down. Terry blamed the recession, times getting tight. It also happened to be the first week of the National Lottery which probably didn't help.

Bring Gabby back! lol I don't think it is as good as it was a few years back where you had loads of regional out puts etc, at least we got to see the guys on the Mersey.

It's not appeared on watch again for some reason - don't suppose you've captured it?

James

Sadly not. It was full of talkback failures, mic failures, talkback audible in audio, cameras that didn't realise they were on air, no camera racking, and non genlocked sources. All stirred in with torrential rain. Best unintentional entertainment of the evening.