[madmusician]

Now, I haven’t watched either telethon for years, but did they not try a rather radical ‘revamp’ of Comic Relief roughly six years ago, when they had a ‘comedy club’ feel and did it live from the O2 and it all went really badly?! So it’s not as though they haven’t tried different formats over recent years.

It’s funny, I remember threads on TVF from as long ago as 16 years ago bemoaning that Comic Relief had lost its ‘edge’ and its ‘live appeal’, so this is not a new problem (although perhaps things are getting worse!)

I think there’s just an element of it being a bigger thing in the past, alongside the (very natural) rose-tinted spectacles. For me, the 2001-7 ones were the ones I really identify with as that was when I was aged between 9 and 15 and they felt really special.