Stand Up To Cancer 2012

How planned was the overrun then? I would guess 'very'.

I wonder what the deal was. If things were going badly, could Channel 4 and/or the production company decide to take the programme off air at 00:00 as advertised or was it always going to go on until whatever time it actually finished?

What is the thinking behind purposely publishing incorrect schedules? I can imagine some viewers would be prepared to stay up until midnight to see a programme finish but wouldn't choose to stay up until 2am, so they would start watching the programme and before they knew it, it was 2am before the programme finished.

This seems to be a tactic Channel 4 are employing lately. At least two times this series, The Million Pound Drop has overrun by 10 - 20 minutes. Once when the contestants were about to win a large amount of money and last week when it seems they were trying to get rid of the contestants so that there was a clean break between 2 Million Pound Drop last night and the two normal episodes either side. As it happened despite the two extra questions asked during the 'overrun', the contestants stayed in and Davina McCall asked the contestants to come back next Saturday (i.e. today) instead of Friday.

I understand this kind of scheduling is used in other European countries too. Is this something we are going to be seeing more of in the UK?

MPD has ran over by 30 - 40 mins before a few series ago. It will likely finish late tonight as well, they don't carry contestants over to the next series.

I trust the programme focused on both men and women with cancer. Most cancer related programmes seem to only focus on women. Some would think men don't even get it at times.

I trust you're being daft as per usual. If you'd watched the show you'd know it didn't focus on any particular group at all and the fact that the Race For Life gets a lot of publicity doesn't mean it's all about women either..

Thing is, when the microphone was faded up/Cheryl started singing (delete as appropriate) she actually carried it off fine. She can sing perfectly well live. It's not to the standard of the CD, but of course it won't be, she's trying to carry off a dance routine at the same time.

People really do fall back too much on miming.

I've long had a feeling that Cheryl has these "live" backing tracks, in other words tracks she can mime to but that are not as polished as the finished record. Before the vocals kicked in you could hear her grunting etc while dancing. It wasn't her mic level that was at fault.

Well baring in mind next year it will be open for suggests I'm not being daft at all.

I myself take part in the Man on the Run 5km.

Nothing unusual there. Comic Relief, Sport Relief and Children in Need all do the same thing on their telethons.

It's more to benefit people who missed it live earlier.

There tend to do this after 1am or even 2am.

It seems this come over from the usa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Up_to_Cancer
This would explain the simpons etc.....