I seem to remember a New Year's Eve with Jonathan Ross (BBC1) a few years back. Alan Titchmarsh was a guest I think.
I have vague memories of that too.
Of course back in the days when Angus Deaton hosted, it wasn't a spin off show, just a show to end the new year.
I'm surprised that they haven't extended Graham Norton's show, made it a bit more general but had the quiz as part of the programme, and do this live to take us into the new year.
Again though, I enjoyed Take That, more than that I'm glad that they actually put in the effort.
I think the Deayton and Ross shows were pre-recorded, as - almost certainly - would a studio based chat show with Graham almost certainly.
Getting high-end guests who are good talkers for a live New Year's Eve show would be pretty difficult - which is why the live shows are mainly performance based, without high-quality chat.
The audience figures for Scotland are in... and not quite as one-sided as we'd expect. Courtesy of the Scottish Daily (Hate) Mail.
BBC Scotland started with Only an Excuse, which picked up 923,000. 50 years of Scotsport, somewhat unsurprisingly, only picked up 300,000 on STV.
Still Game picked up 1.17 million viewers, more than one fifth of the audience. I don't have the STV equivalent for the programme about adverts (no doubt as it contained Scottish words like lavvie heid it didn't get by the Daily Mail spellcheckers), but it must have been low.
But then it gets interesting. Hogmanay Live on BBC1 picked up 868,000. A significant drop on Still Game. Whereas STV's Hogmanay offering picked up 570,000.
It's always assumed that people naturally turn to the BBC at this time of year because ... well that's what always happens. But a significant proportion of the audience must have switched after Still Game. The BBC can't see that as too much of a success. If STV had anything like the star-studded build-up, the result could have been different.
Is it game on again up here in the battle for Hogmanay?
I think the Deayton and Ross shows were pre-recorded, as - almost certainly - would a studio based chat show with Graham almost certainly.
Yep, I was in the audience of the 1996 one with Angus Deayton presenting. The filming for the show kept having to be stopped so that Julian Clary could apply his make up again. The Spice Girls were as was David Baddiel.
From what I remember it was filmed on Fri 20th Dec 96 at 7pm. We were gone by 10pm so not even close to a midnight celebration
When the part of midnight came, the floor manager told us to whoop with joy to bring in the New Year etc and even got a few people from the audience to be on the stage to have a few fake drinkies to make it look like one big celebration.
How bloody stupid are some of these serial complainers?
Strikes me that people are now beginning to jump on the 'all TV is a con' bandwagon.
What exactly would Jools have to do? "Happy new year everyone - of course we'd like to point out that it's actually December 3, 2007 right now for us as we're recorded. That's recorded." Might take some of the fun out of the occasion.
Surprise, surprise people are complaining. Why? What difference does it make if it was filmed live on New Year's Eve or recorded in December? I'm sure these people are just moaning for the sake of it (just as they do on Points of View and Newswatch).
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What exactly would Jools have to do? "Happy new year everyone - of course we'd like to point out that it's actually December 3, 2007 right now for us as we're recorded. That's recorded." Might take some of the fun out of the occasion.
Graham Norton did that for his Christmas Show making fun of the fact that they wouldn't be allowed to have Christmas decorations as people would complain they were being misled as the show was filmed in mid-December. Needless to say he spoke his mind and whipped out the Christmas decorations and asked questions about Christmas regardless.
The audience figures for Scotland are in... and not quite as one-sided as we'd expect. Courtesy of the Scottish Daily (Hate) Mail.
BBC Scotland started with Only an Excuse, which picked up 923,000. 50 years of Scotsport, somewhat unsurprisingly, only picked up 300,000 on STV.
Still Game picked up 1.17 million viewers, more than one fifth of the audience. I don't have the STV equivalent for the programme about adverts (no doubt as it contained Scottish words like lavvie heid it didn't get by the Daily Mail spellcheckers), but it must have been low.
But then it gets interesting. Hogmanay Live on BBC1 picked up 868,000. A significant drop on Still Game. Whereas STV's Hogmanay offering picked up 570,000.
It's always assumed that people naturally turn to the BBC at this time of year because ... well that's what always happens. But a significant proportion of the audience must have switched after Still Game. The BBC can't see that as too much of a success. If STV had anything like the star-studded build-up, the result could have been different.
Is it game on again up here in the battle for Hogmanay?
Can't say I'm surprised by that, for one reason. OK, BBC Sotland's line up may have been better, but many people I spoke to didn't realise BBC Scotland was covering Edinburgh's fireworks this year - they all thought, wrongly, it was going to be Glasgow at the bells because of where the programme was being broadcast from. I'm rather biased though, as I much MUCH prefer it when Hogmanay Live comes from Edinburgh Castle (like it has done for the last few years. Fair enough BBC Scotland wanted to show off their new HQ, but I'd rather next year went back to being an OB!
What exactly would Jools have to do? "Happy new year everyone - of course we'd like to point out that it's actually December 3, 2007 right now for us as we're recorded. That's recorded." Might take some of the fun out of the occasion.
Why mention the new year on a recorded programme at all? If someone happens to mention their new album that is out 'next year' then Jools Holland can either say 'which will be this year when this goes out' or even take the drastic step of assuming that viewers can work out that 2007+1 = 2008 on their own.
Even though this show has been on for a few years now, I'm glad its finally getting a bit of publicity for misleading people. At least it makes the BBC comment on it. Although they never answer the question 'why?'. Why try to mislead people when it is easier to tell the truth?
If they were honest about it being recorded, they could make a music show where the presenter and guests don't have to be careful about mentioning the year or the time and it could not only be shown on 31st December but could be repeated at other times during the year when it would probably get a bigger audience anyway.
I don't care if the show is recorded or not and maybe its the tvforumer in me wanting to know ever little detail about what is happening on TV, but I do wish the BBC would answer the 'Why?' questions whenever something like this comes up.
Why pretend a recorded show is live?
Why give the Blue Peter cat the wrong name?
Why fake competition winners?
If someone had made money out of any of the above I could understand it but as far as we know, no one benefits from any of it.
I seem to remember a New Year's Eve with Jonathan Ross (BBC1) a few years back. Alan Titchmarsh was a guest I think.
Yes, it was 2002 into 2003. They kept up a serious pretence that it was live (quite convincing too), and even showed footage of Big Ben at midnight on the big screen behind where the guests sit, passing it off as a live link when it was archive.
I don't think you'd get the likes of Ross pretending something was live nowadays - quite the opposite, in fact - he often makes jokes now on Friday Night about it not actually being Friday.
Alan Titchmarsh was a guest I think.
