18-11-2023, 12:18 AM
(17-11-2023, 11:48 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: Does anyone have clips of the old Children in Need song "If You Want To Help"
There used to be one when David Essex sang it, and another from I think 1989 and 1996
I can't find any other ones, just the 1996 version here
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That's was such a great set. Shows don't get sets now - they just get screens.
The choir was always somewhat brilliant but somewhat kind of terrible too - that's why it worked. I think the telethons have lost their willingness to risk bits of it being terrible - it's always far more entertaining to be terrible live rather than pre-recorded or heavily scripted. I get why it might be easier to pre-record the choir bit nowadays, but I think now more than ever a telethon can stand out as being a night of live TV when there is so little live entertainment TV nowadays.
I still think it's criminal they don't go past 10pm - even if not with a live studio show they could do something after the news, even if it's just a couple of short studio updates (with no audience) before and after a "special" episode of Graham Norton to take it through to midnight. That would cost the BBC virtually nothing but could raise a couple of million more.