JW
Alastair Stewart on Hogmanay duty as usual at ITN tonight. It’s become something of a year-end institution.
JL
I remember John Leslie hosting something when I was young, I think it was ITV but I was only 6 at the time so my memory might be a little hazy
BR
Yes, certainly one from Take That and I think the other might have been Elton John.
Didn’t ITV air the first couple of Live music gigs into the New Year that BBC One now air annually?
Yes, certainly one from Take That and I think the other might have been Elton John.
GM
Yes, certainly one from Take That and I think the other might have been Elton John.
Where they live though? Or pre recorded?
Didn’t ITV air the first couple of Live music gigs into the New Year that BBC One now air annually?
Yes, certainly one from Take That and I think the other might have been Elton John.
Where they live though? Or pre recorded?
SW
Well, they were certainly sold as being live. It's funny how they seemed to be just as big stars as on the Beeb now, but they did absolutely bugger all in the ratings. They weren't related to the current BBC1 concerts, they just happened to be a concert on New Year's Eve - in much the same way BBC2 used to do one in the eighties.
There was a live episode of Des O'Connor Tonight in 1987/88 with live links across the UK, that would presumably have been a suitable alternative to the Beeb showing 'stEnders up to midnight. After that it was a load of odds and sods before in 1991 we got what we had for most of the nineties and what we get now, just the news at midnight, sometimes in the middle of a film.
The John Leslie one mentioned up there was probably the one in 1997/98 when they were live at Edinburgh Hogmanany, but I think that was just the STV coverage networked (as was the case up until the mid-eighties) rather than anything special for the network as a whole.
Where they live though? Or pre recorded?
Well, they were certainly sold as being live. It's funny how they seemed to be just as big stars as on the Beeb now, but they did absolutely bugger all in the ratings. They weren't related to the current BBC1 concerts, they just happened to be a concert on New Year's Eve - in much the same way BBC2 used to do one in the eighties.
There was a live episode of Des O'Connor Tonight in 1987/88 with live links across the UK, that would presumably have been a suitable alternative to the Beeb showing 'stEnders up to midnight. After that it was a load of odds and sods before in 1991 we got what we had for most of the nineties and what we get now, just the news at midnight, sometimes in the middle of a film.
The John Leslie one mentioned up there was probably the one in 1997/98 when they were live at Edinburgh Hogmanany, but I think that was just the STV coverage networked (as was the case up until the mid-eighties) rather than anything special for the network as a whole.
AN
Andrew
Founding member
Yes I remember when ITV did Take That up to midnight, it was seen as the most effort they’d put in for years. I don’t know if they did something similar another year, but of course they rated no better than when they didn’t do any effort so they stopped doing it.
I don’t know what BBC One were showing up against but I’m guessing it was either a pre recorded Jonathan Ross style Show or the early days of New Year Live when it lasted much longer and was a load of nonsense with the likes of Natasha Kaplinsky hosting.
I don’t know what BBC One were showing up against but I’m guessing it was either a pre recorded Jonathan Ross style Show or the early days of New Year Live when it lasted much longer and was a load of nonsense with the likes of Natasha Kaplinsky hosting.
BR
Elton John was 2008/9, the year after Take That. BBC1 had a 90 minute New Years Eve party on HMS Belfast hosted by Nick Knowles and Kate Silverton and still won.
https://www.whizzkid.tv/eltons-new-years-eve-party-live-from-the-o2-arena/
https://www.whizzkid.tv/eltons-new-years-eve-party-live-from-the-o2-arena/
CA
Yes, certainly one from Take That and I think the other might have been Elton John.
Where they live though? Or pre recorded?
Pre recorded earlier in the night. They crucially also never showed the fireworks.
Didn’t ITV air the first couple of Live music gigs into the New Year that BBC One now air annually?
Yes, certainly one from Take That and I think the other might have been Elton John.
Where they live though? Or pre recorded?
Pre recorded earlier in the night. They crucially also never showed the fireworks.