Times when one channel visits another channel

What examples of a channel visiting another channel or a programme visiting another programme can you think of?

I'm thinking about the times when channels have linked up, either by consent of both channels or when one channel has purposely or accidentally appeared on another channel.

I have vague memories of some people from Comic Relief which was live on BBC One going to Newsnight(?) which was live on BBC Two(?) at the time to collect money. I remember changing the channel and seeing the Comic Relief people appearing on the other channel.

Snatch It and Gems TV were two shopping channels owned by the same company and broadcasting live from studios next door to each other. Quite often, towards the end of the night when they had sold all their allocated items, one channel would visit the other and take a camera with them so the viewer could flick between the two channels and watch the presenters of the two channels chatting from two different angles.

When GMTV and The Big Breakfast were both in Cannes one morning, Richard Bacon arranged for a streaker to run behind the GMTV presenter while they were broadcasting live. The clip of GMTV was also shown by The Big Breakfast later that morning. The clip of the streaker is often shown on outtake programmes but they never show the set up. The Big Breakfast also visited the studios of GMTV and This Morning in the past, they didn't go in, they just broadcast from outside on both occasions. GMTV let Keith Chegwin stand in reception though. Here are the clips (in 7 parts)...1 2 3 4 5 6 7 although obviously this was not broadcast on GMTV itself.

Here is an example of ITV1 and ITV2 linking up in 2011 but both broadcasting slightly different things...
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Of course, we all remember the times when Nation 217's Flipside visited Avago which happened to be broadcast from the studio next door. Here are some pictures of Justin Lee Collins and Carolyn Ashton visiting Charlotte Gane and Caroline Artus who were presenting The Big Shuffle on Avago. This was obviously broadcast on both channels, although Flipside didn't take their own camera with them.


Sadly, I don't think any footage of this event exists.

Here is an example of Richard Bacon leaving Flipside to visit Avago for a bit.


Finally, Sky News' Joey Jones on BBC News to the confusion of Huw Edwards.

Don't suppose you have a video of Joey Jones on the BBC NC do you David?

This occurs on occasion whenever Sit-Up TV goes into "our phone lines are borked" mode, and tends to happen when they've run out of other ideas to fill air-time and can't/won't run whatever the overnight filler is these days.

Both BBC One and Channel 4 showed the first series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2001.

The final was shown live on BBC One. In the week leading up to the final Channel 4 had nightly highlights and BBC One had 10 minute updates.

It was all in aid of Comic Relief.

Seems odd now that Big Brother was shown on BBC One.

In 1996 Denis Potter's two final works Karaoke and Cold Lazarus were BBC/C4 co productions, and shown (and cross promoted) on both BBC 1 and C4.

Also in the 80s, the three acts of the opera Tosco were split between C4 and BBC 2

There was a thread on this very topic a few months ago wasn't there?

Anyway, this is a very famous example

Quite - who could forget...?



Ah yes, I remember those quite well.



Notably there is no longer the same degree of the more typical cross-promotion between the original commercial channels, as there once was - for example ITV showing a substantial promo for an entire night's Channel 4 programmes. But then as now, exactly the same version as would be broadcast on the other channel with nothing to distinguish between them.

Obviously David's memory isn't that good... as his screenshots show, it wasn't called Nation 217

That was in 1989, with Lenny Henry going to the studio of The Late Show, which at the time had a Friday edition presented by Clive James.

Everyone forgets this now but on the Spring Bank Holiday in 2000 the Beeb did Music Live for 24 hours between 10pm on Sunday and 10pm on Monday, It flitted between BBC1 and BBC2 throughout the event - it started on BBC1, moved to BBC2 after an hour or so, moved back to BBC1 in the morning, moved back to BBC2 so BBC1 could show 'stEnders and that - but for the last hour both BBC1 and BBC2 did programming and you could choose which one you watched, and at 9pm, the BBC1 presenter, I can't remember who that was, and the BBC2 presenter, who I remember was John Inverdale of all people, were in the same studio stood next to each other but were being filmed on different cameras and you could flick between them to see them from two different angles.

Not on me, no. Truth is, this happened for about a second or less so the video shows nothing that you don't see in the screen grabs.

Not my clip, but have Jeremy Thompson on BBC News anyway...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLQ3QByBzY&t=22s




Yes, it is turning out that way but when I started the thread, I was really looking for clips and memories of incidents involving two galleries rather then simulcasts of the programmes on two channels. Either way, there are a few new examples posted in this thread so it's all good.



This short video should explain everything...
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This was in 1992 actually, the big thing was that this was in real time in the venues and at the exact times of day that it was supposed to be set, so the first act was at 11am on a Saturday morning, the second at 9pmand the third at 6am the next morning. BBC2 showed them live - interrupting the Open University programmes for the first, and I seem to remember Placido Domingo, who was the star, falling over on stage at one point - and then C4 showed it all again in one go on Sunday night.

Didn't the main news crews join together to cover some major ongoing political story some time within the past 2 years?