Children in Need

No. It actually used to be quite watchable when it was Terry Wogan and Sue Cook and there was a bit more variety in the evening. More recently though it's turned into a songfest which I can't stand. It doesn't help that the presenters have all of the personality of a wall!

This is where Comic Rlief wins out because it has a variety of things during the evening and isn't mostly music.

I must say that I like the set but the problem with TC1 is if you have a big set you can't have a big audience, and if you have a big audience you can't have a big set. You don't get the same crackle of excitement that you do from Studio 1 at The London Television Studios.

Fountain Studios where The X Factor comes from is the best large studio in the country. But things might have been so different. Read this on how BBC TV Centre's TC9 could have been the best studio ever and was ruined because the accountants at the BBC were in charge instead of the light entertainment supremos like th legendary Bill Cotton.

TC9 could have been the best studio ever in Great Britain!!

Although technically its two studios joined together?

(I always wondered why there was no provision made for doing that at TVC..)

Well technically yes, although Studio 1 is quite bigger than Studio 2.

I show a doc once about the FIRST CIN, with Ester woman (form that life)

she siad due to the poicy of the BBC at the time there had to shwo kids in ~Non distressed,

so there showed this film about a bunch of happy go lukcy kids,

it was the most anit video in the wolrd

Why has the Northern Irish Pudsey got no buttons??

Can't Fountain lower a wall that divides the studio or something? It's still one massive space though and Fiends managed to film their London episodes there too. Do the BBC still claim that their Studio 1 is the largest in Europe? Like the article says I bet they're envious of the Fountain Studio.

They don't have that problem now though do they? Do you know when that policy changed?

Some appalling miming going on tonight, from Mrs Andre in particular. Have you heard the actual live recording of their version of a whole new world? Nice to know we have CIN to thank for them being possible to make their album!!

Come back Gaby... The sycophancy of Natasha Kaplinsky is embarassing. I don't mind her as a newsreader but please don't let her loose with 'celebs'...

Oh yes!! It must be heard to be believed but I'm not sure it's genuine. Still funny though!

Just realised that because I have Sky that I can now watch the famed opt outs!! No wonder you lot get depressed. Why do they think people don't want to see the main show.

Watching on BBC Scotland and the Sugarbabes are singing live. Something that is still on Girls Aloud's to do list.

The studio reminds me a bit of the Swedish Melodifestivalen of 2004 (their 'Song for Europe')

http://www.malmomassan.se/public/bilder/melodifestivalen_stor.jpg

What do people think of the set this year? I really like it but the should have a sit down area. My favourite set was one where they hd to get into a boat and it took them from the CIN studio to another studio where celebs were taking calls.

liked the bit with Jordan shamelessly plugging the date of her album release just after reading out the donation number. Kinda sums up what this whole programme is about really.