So what ITV really need is a wealth of regional children's religious programming - and probably best if they're in documentary form too just to ensure as many boxes as possible are ticked at one time!
or not, it seems the Easter special was filmed on the same day as the Christmas edition in November in a cost cutting measure!
So funny - even Songs of Praise is "lying" now. The press are making a big deal out of it though - but filming the Easter special so early is ridiculous. A couple of weeks before is I'm sure what most people would expect.
Funny on News 24 too when just before 4pm they were interviewing someone about it and they compared it to discover "Father Christmas" is just your father dressed up in a Santa suit - with the presenters immediately apologising for those untrue remarks!
So funny - even Songs of Praise is "lying" now. The press are making a big deal out of it though - but filming the Easter special so early is ridiculous. A couple of weeks before is I'm sure what most people would expect.
Although not on the same par as Songs Of Praise, ITV's Christmas Eve Midnight Mass service last year was recorded about a month before it was aired.
I take it this is just standard practice for Songs Of Praise anyway.
But filming it in the same "block" as the Christmas programme? C'mon Gavin. It must have been difficult creating the right atmosphere for an Easter special when most people had just let off their fireworks and probably still thought it was too early to even think about Christmas.
The Christmas services were done live (even on ITV1) a few years ago, and I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation during the festive season (the crew were probably glad of their "divine rewards"!) Maybe not as important at Easter but surely the result would be better if filming was delayed until as near to the time as possible?
