NBC RED NOSE DAY 5.21.15
Quite good. Thankfully the original producers were used. Some of the hosts joked there were a lot of British people back stage. THey did a little montage of UK celebs doing backstage tasks. It was cute. So the show is well produced IMO (Odd choice having David Duchovny as one of the hosts). Walgreens (owner of Boots) did a great job shifting over 5 million red noses.
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I enjoyed it but wished there were more sketches. The piece with Gwyneth Paltrow hanging from the rafters was painful to watch.
David Duchovny was likely tapped to host because he has an upcoming show on NBC called Aquarius which is launching next Thursday at 9PM (the same time slot he hosted) . Likewise Jane Krakowski stars in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt which NBCU produces and was due to air this spring but the show was sold to Netflix.
In my opinion Seth Meyers should have hosted the whole show.
Interesting that they raised $10m with a population of over 320m people, yet the UK with over 63m people have raised on average over £50m ($78m) every time since the 00's. You would have expected the American figure to be much higher than $10m.
Couple of things.... Red Nose Day has been on for decades in the UK so you would expect the total and participation to be higher than the US because of simple brand awareness. Also the 10M was only the east coast total. They didnt do a big total at the end of the show as it hadnt fully aired on the west coast. I wouldnt expect a dramatic total to surpass the Red Nose UK though. If the show was a ratings success, in the next few years maybe that number will rise, but the US is a big country and only the SuperBowl is one of the big national viewing programmes. I say they did a good job highlighting awareness of the show. They were surprised the red noses sold at the rate they did. So I think the producers had a conservative expectation going in. Hopefully it will grow in the years to come.
Couple of things.... Red Nose Day has been on for decades in the UK so you would expect the total and participation to be higher than the US because of simple brand awareness. Also the 10M was only the east coast total. They didnt do a big total at the end of the show as it hadnt fully aired on the west coast. I wouldnt expect a dramatic total to surpass the Red Nose UK though. If the show was a ratings success, in the next few years maybe that number will rise, but the US is a big country and only the SuperBowl is one of the big national viewing programmes. I say they did a good job highlighting awareness of the show. They were surprised the red noses sold at the rate they did. So I think the producers had a conservative expectation going in. Hopefully it will grow in the years to come.
The first Red Nose Day show on the BBC in 1988 raised GBP £15m. In 1988 using historical currency conversions that would have been USD $26m at 1988 exchange rates, so around USD $5m more in direct numerical comparison.
However $26m was worth a lot more in 1988 than now (and people earned a lot less), so if you adjust for dollar inflation purchasing power that would be around USD $52m in today's money I believe.
So in real terms, the first US Red Nose Day raised less than half the amount the first UK Red Nose Day did.
So what is your point exactly? Or is this just obnoxious jingoistic sneering?
US & UK charity telethons are apples and oranges. For a start the US has loads of them, recurring and one offs, and they're not the kind of national events our RND and Children In Need are. The also don't have the luxery of the BBC behind them. TV fundraising is much more fragmented over there than here.
So what is your point exactly? Or is this just obnoxious jingoistic sneering?
US & UK charity telethons are apples and oranges. For a start the US has loads of them, recurring and one offs, and they're not the kind of national events our RND and Children In Need are. The also don't have the luxery of the BBC behind them. TV fundraising is much more fragmented over there than here.
I, and some other people, find these statistical comparisons interesting - Noggin left the post open for people to draw their own conclusions as to why there is a difference. I don't know how one could take offence from figures alone.
