The BRIT Awards 2016

BRITs tonight, pretty big night for the music industry and for ITV. I was particularly interested whether anyone has seen any pictures of the set in the O2 for tonight's show?
https://instagram.com/p/BCDBVy4AaCo/

I'm particularly looking forward to Adeles performance as well as the Weeknd

Also search function didn't show any threads of this nature so I'm assuming there isn't one already set up. Sorry if there is!

I'm looking foward to The Weeknd also.

Quick question, Has ITV always had the rights to the brit awards?

Since 1993 according to Wiki*. The BBC had them from 1985 to 1992, with only the inaugural 1977 awards before that broadcast on Thames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_Awards

*Usually Wikipedia disclaimers apply.

Not always.

Thames TV showed the first awards in 1977, then they returned to TV on the BBC between '85 and '92, including the infamous 1989 Sam Fox & Mick Fleetwood presentation. From '93 they have been on ITV.

Ant and Dec's jokes have been falling incredibly flat with that audience.

And well done to whoever's in charge of muting swears tonight. Managed to mute before and after the f word but not the word itself!

The hosts jokes fall pretty flat with the music suits every year.

Well the BBC definitely aired the infamous 1989 awards, as they were buried in the "vault" in Television Centre in the Auntie's Bloomers intro.

I don't understand where Wikipedia got 1985 from, or why it lists no broadcaster at all for the 1982-84 shows, but as Genome confirms, the awards aired annually on the BBC from 1979 under the title 'The British Rock and Pop Awards'. Until 1983 it aired as Nationwide specials.

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=%22the+british+rock+and+pop+awards%22&svc=9371541#search

They were different awards, however, organised not by the BPI but by the BBC and the Daily Mirror. The most obvious difference between this and the Brits is that the public voted for the Rock and Pop Awards, rather than the industry. Meanwhile the BPI Awards, as was, were not televised. Hence why in 1983 the BPI Award for Best Album went to Barbra Streisand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brit_Awards_ceremonies#1983 - whereas on the British Rock and Pop Awards...



...it was Duran Duran. And why that's clearly not Tim Rice.

Not sure why they needed to mute Mark Ronson there now it's passed 10PM, unless what he said was libellous.

You learn something new every day, I've spent over thirty years under the impression that the BPI Awards had simply been a continuation of the British Rock and Pop Awards.


Seems strange then that in both 1983 and 1984 the BBC's show took place on exactly the same day as the BPI Awards...