US Telethon

BBC and ITV1 to broadcast US telethon live

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/showbiz/newsid_1555000/1555821.stm

Also MTV UK & Ireland, VH1 and Sky channel 770, all live at 2am Saturday morning.

Repeated MTV, VH1, 770 at 9pm Saturday.
Repeated BBC1 at 10.20pm Sunday.

It's gonna be good. My favourite film star, Jim Carrey's on it, so I'll be taping it as it's on in the middle of the night!

I'm really pleased that channels in the UK are getting behind this in such a big way. Hopefully there'll be a number for people to dial up from around the world to make pledges as well.

To be honest, I didn't really expect this - I thought that maybe I'd be able to catch it on Fox News, but I had no idea that so many channels over here would be showing it.

I think it's an excellent way to raise money for such a worthy cause. I was listening to an Atlanta radio station (Q100) online on Monday, and they raised more than $400,000 - they were only expecting about $100,000!

AND Mariah Carey's supposed to be performing too - I hope she does, as I'm a huge fan!

(Edited by mark at 6:56 pm on Sep. 21, 2001)

According to Sky News, Sky will be taking it on channel 770.

It's a great idea and nice to see all broadcasters getting behind it in such a big way.

Totally agree - great to see UK terrestrial broadcasters getting in on this. Has anyone's EPG updated yet? (And just as he says it - the EPG updates! BBC One has N24 1.10am - 2am and then the America tribute).

Anyone on for chat at 2am??!

Cheers, Asa

Can't make up my mind whether to watch it live or tape it...

You see, if I was at uni, I'd be out until 2am and then come back and watch the telethon but, as I'm stuck in deepest darkest Oxfordshire, I don't know if I can stay awake until 2! But if I stay up, I'll definitely drop into the chatroom.

After I watched it live (although I did dose od a couple of times) While I was flicking over I came arross the ITV2 close down menu I sware it sad that 'america: A tribute to the heroes is on tonight at 9 butI can't find anything else to agree with this. Anyone else heard about this aswell

sorry, seems that America: A Tribute to Heroes
is on ITV2 now
so itv2's line up looksl ike this:
18:00 CD UK
19:00 America: A Tribute to Heroes
21:00 Chart Choice
21:15 Inspector Morse

instead of the old listings which were
18:00 CD UK (Music)
19:00 Rich and Famous Uncut (Entertainment)
20:15 Giants (Nature)
20:45 Giants (Nature)
21:15 Inspector Morse (Drama)

One other thing to note at 01:15 The Late Show with David Letterman With Dan Rather and Regis Philbin show tuesday on ITV2 and moday in the states, the first one after the terror attacks in New York

Did anyone watch 'America: Tribute to Heroes' last night? I saw Mariah Carey perform - who else thought she looked ill; she couldn't hit the high notes either! I don't think she's out of the woods yet.......

The whole 2 hour show is being repeated on BBC One tomorrow from 10.20pm.

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