Found a rare video of the original run of The One Show recently uploaded. I'd forgotten that they returned to the regional news at the end of the programme for an update on the national and regional news, replacing the national update that had come at the end of the 6 (which may have been the time that the update was scrapped permanently, even when The One Show went off air?). Does anyone have any other videos of how the regions and nations treated this new opt? Was it pretty much the same as North West Tonight?
The whole look hasn't dated well compared to the current look that's lasted 13 years, which still looks really fresh.
Having that pilot series really helped in the long run.
It's also changed very little from its original premise. Of course it looks better, flows better and has more money thrown at it, but it's still the same show at its core.
I find it very curious that they chose Birmingham as the studio base. The Mailbox was probably the BBCs newest studio complex at the time but due to the limited space in there, they had to create a special temporary studio to accommodate them. A restaurant has since been built on the space they used so they couldn't go back if they wanted to.
I remember Midlands Today before the first edition went outside to catch a glimpse of the studio complex from the outside before they handed over to the show. Funnily enough I don't remember the elongated regional updates during the show.
As it was conceived as a sort of Nationwide style look around the regions and was integrated into their programmes I assume Birmingham was chosen purely because that's where the management for their Nations and Regions and English Regions was based.
Did Christine start with the show when it relocated to London. Wasn't Myleene Klass lined up as the main presenter at one point?
It was Adrian and Myleene from the start.
Myleene lasted a couple of weeks/months until she went on maternity leave. Christine was already the stand-in for Myleene and was made permanent when Myleene never came back.
Myleene lasted a couple of weeks/months until she went on maternity leave. Christine was already the stand-in for Myleene and was made permanent when Myleene never came back.
Initially it was supposed to be Adrian on his own when it started full time, and was billed as such in the Radio Times, but at the last minute they decided it would be a double header and Myleene moved up from reporter to presenter, but as mentioned she only did it for a few weeks as she was pregnant. Christine was a reporter from day one and came in to replace her.
Myleene lasted a couple of weeks/months until she went on maternity leave. Christine was already the stand-in for Myleene and was made permanent when Myleene never came back.
Initially it was supposed to be Adrian on his own when it started full time, and was billed as such in the Radio Times, but at the last minute they decided it would be a double header and Myleene moved up from reporter to presenter, but as mentioned she only did it for a few weeks as she was pregnant. Christine was a reporter from day one and came in to replace her.
I suppose with the permanent sofa guest format it now has that may have worked. I assume they moved to London to get the bigger names, ‘Richard and Judy‘-style?
Was surprised to read today how long it took for the show to actually start full time after the pilot run - pretty much did the pilot one summer but didn't launch till the next summer.
Also mentioned at the time was the suggestion that some strands would act as pilots for becoming fully fledged shows in their own right. Has this happened at all - nothing immediately comes to mind.