Red Nose Day Yesterday
Saturday, March 19th, 2011 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineFor the first time ever, I didn't watch any of the Red Nose Day TV show on my television. After last time, where I had to sit through several hours of people I had either never heard of or thought had been banished for mediocrity in order to see ten minutes of proper stuff, I decided I wasn't fussed about watching. I did buy the T-shirt, the nose, the pin badge, and the George Michael single (and a pack of Stephen Fry Up crisps which probably taste nicer if you are hungry).
I do, however, have some 24 Hour Panel People to sit down and watch - this is David Walliams taking part in TV panel shows past and present for 24 hours in a row, I have QI, Give Us A Clue, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Call My Bluff to watch. Also, there was the now-obligatory Doctor Who special short:
Part 1
Part 2
Also I heard John Prescott's reading of the Shipping Forecast which was so much yayness :D And apparently £74 million has been raised so far, which is super duper yayness. If anyone else knows of other Red Nose Day show YouTubery I should look out for, please let me know. I must admit to feeling so lame about not watching the show, like all those prissy schoolteachers who never watched and who thought Comic Relief Red Noses were so beneath them. I was hoping to be tuning in late on, ie after all danger of Davina MacCall had passed, I was going to watch 24 Hour Panel People highlights scheduled for midnight but someone tweeted to say there was an extended news bulletin so everything was being rearranged. Instead, I was listening to The Fry Chronicles, covering his university years, and all the now-world-famous actors he encountered, including a tall chap with blue eyes and blushing-red cheeks who said "Hullo", while tootling around Google Earth.
If you enjoyed the Doctor Who ep and want to see more of Matt Smith, you can see a whole lot more of him tonight at 9.30pm on BBC2 in a 90-minute TV film Christopher And His Kind, where he is "louche, saucy and naked" according to the Radio Times in the title role of Christopher Isherwood. Should be good. I was always sad I never got to see Alan Cumming's Cabaret, I feel like Isherwood is one of those writers I will be forever trying to catch up on.
I do, however, have some 24 Hour Panel People to sit down and watch - this is David Walliams taking part in TV panel shows past and present for 24 hours in a row, I have QI, Give Us A Clue, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Call My Bluff to watch. Also, there was the now-obligatory Doctor Who special short:
Part 1
Part 2
Also I heard John Prescott's reading of the Shipping Forecast which was so much yayness :D And apparently £74 million has been raised so far, which is super duper yayness. If anyone else knows of other Red Nose Day show YouTubery I should look out for, please let me know. I must admit to feeling so lame about not watching the show, like all those prissy schoolteachers who never watched and who thought Comic Relief Red Noses were so beneath them. I was hoping to be tuning in late on, ie after all danger of Davina MacCall had passed, I was going to watch 24 Hour Panel People highlights scheduled for midnight but someone tweeted to say there was an extended news bulletin so everything was being rearranged. Instead, I was listening to The Fry Chronicles, covering his university years, and all the now-world-famous actors he encountered, including a tall chap with blue eyes and blushing-red cheeks who said "Hullo", while tootling around Google Earth.
If you enjoyed the Doctor Who ep and want to see more of Matt Smith, you can see a whole lot more of him tonight at 9.30pm on BBC2 in a 90-minute TV film Christopher And His Kind, where he is "louche, saucy and naked" according to the Radio Times in the title role of Christopher Isherwood. Should be good. I was always sad I never got to see Alan Cumming's Cabaret, I feel like Isherwood is one of those writers I will be forever trying to catch up on.
