Xmas Presents

Sorry if a thread already exists, I couldn't spot one.
Just reading on BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6949881.stm
Noel's Christmas Presents is being re-made by Sky, another year and another 1990's TV re-make, last xmas it was Challenge Anneka by ITV and this year Noels Xmas Presents.
I was never a big fan of this show what about you guys? Will it work aswell in 2007?

Noel Idea

Don't see why it wouldn't. The format was used up until a couple of years ago on the BBC anyway, just without Noel - I think Rolf Harris did it and someone else (Dale Winton...?)

I always thought that the show was public service broadcasting from the BBC at it's best. Christmas day has never been the same without Noel.

Yup Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without 'Noel's Christmas Family Video Accidents'


It's a joke from Bottom

This is a lovely feel-good show that just worked beautifully on Christmas Day. The format isn't all that exciting as far as formats go, but according to Screen Online, it aired every Christmas Day 1989-1999 except 1992.

You could say it was based on 'Surprise Surprise', only with less-personal surprises.

I have never forgotten that 'Christmas Present' given sometime in the late 1990s to a man aged well over 90 being reunited with his younger brother who he hadn't seen for 87 years as they'd been torn apart by the war. This was one of the highlights of this programme for me.

"Nobody in this house watches the television 'til the Queen's Speech"
"But it Noel's Chrisrmas Family Video Accidents!"

I love that episode

It's something else that should be on BBC1, but the executives are too busy chasing the young adult demographic. You'd think they were trying to sell hair gel and lager.

Noel also had a live Christmas morning show for quite a few years before that - from memory Christmas presents was pre-recorded (at least in part). I certainly remember live link-ups with the Falkland Islands a year or two after the Falklands war, and a live link up with a Royal Navy ship taking part in the Armilla patrol during the Iran/Iraq conflict - both of which were pre-1989. ISTR it was often anchored from the BT tower - and also did live link-ups to hospitals and other places where people were still at work on Christmas day etc. (Didn't it have a live link to a Jumbo jet flying over the UK one year - with an infamous Fergal Sharkey performance?)

Wouldn't it be cheaper and more interesting for Sky (or the BBC themselves) to just broadcast old episodes instead of making more?

I'd never heard of this programme.

If it's like Surprise Surprise I don't want to either.

Still, at least Noel could never, ever be as annoying as that Black woman

RACIST!