Text Santa

That change of colour has taken 20 years of Phillip

How did they dye it so fast? Holly's has to be a wig surely?

You can easily dye hair, pretty fast, especial Phillips, as it short.

Paddy Mcguinness already winding me up within 3 seconds of appearing on screen.

Agree wholeheartedly with this:

Nice Coronation Street parody sketch on traditional Christmas soap storylines.

EDIT: Emmerdale, even. (Shows how much I watch soaps!)

This certainly does have a different feel to BBC Telethons. Rather than going for a quantity of features, they've gone for a small selection of more developed features.

This is the first year I have watched, and tonight's show has convinced me to watch again.

Also, it's shorter show, rather than dragging it out to the early hours, and all the better for it.

The Corrie Fairytale of New York was fantastic just now.

Final total for the end of the show is down by nearly Million from last year. Hopeful it will raise this lot over the coming week.

How much was it?

Its a shame they didn't raise as much as the previous year. I wonder why though?
I don't think the government match funded (or added to it) like they did the previous two years did they? So maybe that had a big impact.

I have watched Text Santa every time and have always enjoyed it more than CIN & Comic Relief. Like others have said on here, I think its down to the quality of the sketches and features, rather than the quantity, and the fact it is only 3 hours which is perfect, rather than going on all night.
I find with CIN I end up recording it from about 10 or 11pm and when I come back to watch it, I end up skipping a lot of it.

Its a shame TS isn't getting the viewers and donations that CIN gets as it deserves to. Loved the two Corrie bits and the Emmerdale bit, highlights for me.

£4.14...... Million

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