[AndyB2008]

A suitable choice for the target audience.  By the way they air on Tuesday at 8pm, although with no BGT on Saturday they probably could have aired live as they had begun doing for a couple of years before covid.

It didn't air live in 2017 - it was going to, but then the Manchester Arena attack happened, which led to the organisation of the One Love concert 2 weeks later on 4th June.

BBC1 carried the concert for television.

The day of the One Love concert though coincided with the final of Britain's Got Talent. Simon Cowell, realising the attention was going to be on the concert and that BGT would play to a tiny audience, arranged to have the final moved to Saturday where the Soap Awards were due to air live. (ITV instead broadcast Helen Mirren film The Queen against the One Love concert).

The 2017 Soap Awards were pre-recorded as a result and went out one Tuesday night instead, replacing a Midsomer Murders repeat. (In Ireland, the 2017 Soap Awards replaced a screening of the Jet Li film War).