Anyone see Sky One "Live" on the Oscar Red Carpet?

Caught a bit of the Sky One show "Live" from the Red Carpet, presented by Kate Thornton.

Didn't look like very much was live - lots of Kate's interviews were obviously pre-recorded as they ran from freezes, and her interview with the 13 year old actress from Atonement was cued on a false start, so you saw Kate ask her a question along the lines of "How does it feel to be at the Oscars aged 15?" at which point the actress replied "Actually I'm 13". Kate then stopped, looked hatchet faced, and started the entire interview again...

This did mean they could run the film clips and packages before interviews that reflected the next guest neatly (i.e. they knew they had an interview recorded with a star from Atonement, so ran in a package on that film?) but meant the show felt very disjointed - not a patch on E!'s coverage...

It did mean it felt far from Live though.

Sky Movies had Claudia Winkleman in an HD studio in London again this year. Felt like "Liquid Oscars" with Robin Ince on the sofa and Claudia presenting (it could have been Liquid News)...

I saw bits of the red carpet show and thougt that is was pre-rec as well.

The audio was all over the place as well, and the overdone voice overs into break/clips stop-started far to often.

The whole thing had the production values of 'babehouse'. Shocking

Would have been better to have a second anchor to make the narrative work better for viewers.

While E! was technically better - and had sense to show 16:9 in a 4:3 frame - Ryan Seacrest was just awful, celebs just looking at him with contempt when he asked dumb questions and gave phony mateyness.

Bring back Katy Griffen!

I just can't understand why the media over-hype this self-congratulatory "luvvie-fest". It's about as interesting as a list of parking tickets issued by my local council.

It was listed in the headlines on BBC Breakfast this morning and given undue prominence over real news. It's time broadcasters stopped forcing this meaningless drivel on the public every year.

I had hoped we would be spared the event because of the Writers' Strike this year.

Was the Vanity Fair party back on now the Writer's strike is over as that's usually where the post-Oscars interviews come from?

It was cancelled. Elton John hosted the big party AFAIK

Elton John always host's a party every year for invited guests, for everyone who isn't invited there is usally Vanity Fair but that didn't happen this year. The Oscars are definately way over hyped these days, i recorded it to watch but luckily on Sky+ you can fast forward very fast to watch the odd interesting bit. Don't think i could stomach watching it all, firstly it's way too long and secondly too much friend back patting goes on.

Are you trying to suggest the Oscars were ever more than self-congratulatory willy waving?

Well Hollywood didn't congratulate any of its actors or actresses. First time since 1964 that the winners have all been Europeans... Not a single American (or Canadian) among them.

Brit wins for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, with France getting Best Actress and Spain Best Supporting Actor.