Last Choir Standing

The Glasgow HD Studio isn't as big as I would have thought.....the audience area was tiny.

That's interesting as I thought it came from London.

Doesn't seem that studio 1 at TVC is used for much apart from Strictly Come Dancing, the musical singing shows, Comic Relief and Children In Need.

The Soap Awards are usually in TC1 as well.

I think that the Saturday night shows - Strictly, Maria, Joseph, Oliver etc. block out the studio from Thursday to Sunday at least, and I guess that most of the very big studio shows are live on Saturdays these days. Given that those shows are on for a large chunk of the year it is probably working quite a bit more than it did a few years ago.

All the studios at Glasgow are HD - even the news and sport one...

Studio A is the large one, Studio B the smaller one, Studio C the news/sport one.

AIUI A and B usually work to one gallery designed for general production, with C working to one designed for news and sport. However AIUI any studio floor can work to any gallery - or a scanner parked outside.

Odd that the news/sport studio works in HD (it isn't run in SD-mode) even though there is no imminent chance of BBC One Scotland broadcasting in HD.

Who Dares Wins actually aired last November/December.

It flopped so much, he was asked back to present a second run of 8, which was recorded over the late May Bank Holiday and will be aired in September.

I was at one taping, and he came across as a really nice down to earth bloke during the breaks of recording as he made time to come in to the seating area and almost double act with the warm-up man keep the crowd entertained.

This is total contrast to Jasper Carrott on Goldenballs who is sprinted away from the set as soon as there is a break in recording, and never seen again until the FM shouts 'quiet studio - going again in 3..2..and 1"

The end credits to LCS looked like they had been made in the 1980s ( if not before! ).

They looked like they belonged on a Two Ronnies special

I often think Tess is the new Gaby Roslin with Vernon trying to be the new Bob Monkhouse. Difference being of course, Vernon puts on a caricature rather than being able to spill out jokes from memory every nanosecond.

I don't know what to say really, I mean, ITV have Simon Cowell and in recent years it's as if the BBC have tried to turn Andrew Lloyd Webber into some television magnate. This of course has failed and the BBC are constantly struggling to think up ideas for Saturday night TV to rival Cowell. Basically the BBC need to bring back variety rather than sticking to these National Lottery formats and Maria, Joseph, etc etc all the time and relying on Graham Norton to "camp" things up. They already have the Doctor Who slot which is obviously brilliant but it's what follows that is currently rubbish.

As for Myleene Klass... why does she HAVE to be on EVERYTHING? Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily have a problem with her but crikey.

Though most FMs worth their salt would shot "Quiet please, standby, going again in 5,4...." and not say 3,2 or 1. (You never speak in the final 3 seconds of a count to ensure a clean "in")

I think the BBC's ability to come up with hit formats that the public love isn't very good. It took them about 6 years to come up with Strictly Come Dancing after Noel's House Party ended. During that time ITV had several hits such as Pop Idol, Popstars, I'm A Celebrity and the hits keep coming.

Apart from Strictly BBC1 has no other light entertainment format that gets huge ratings, they need to cutback on these singing shows.

Well done sir, you have spotted my deliberate mistake...

This show has gotten worse. The studio had no atmosphere and the hosts were the wrong choice for that type of show in my opinion. I won't be watching again.

Well the "Joseph" audition show beat the ITV equivalent for Grease something like 2.5 to 1! In It To Win It is also popular but I think that's because Dale Winton is a charismatic, likeable presenter. strictly Come Dancing often beats X-factor and vice versa. With regards to your comments on ITV shows, Pop Idol, Popstars and X-Factor are technically the same show. The hits ITV have are rehashed in the same way as BBC1's are. I would say that TV companies in general now find it difficult to make viewers "love" a show like they did in the 70's and 80's. ITV have hits like Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway which is Noels House party in disguise and the BBC rely more on drama and the lottery formatted shows. with regards to the lottery shows, some are dire! Some are good. All in all though, both the BBC and ITV are guilty of copycat programming.