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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Terry Wogan announced that he will be taking a weekend show which will be in front of a live audience. I just wonder where the show will be in the weekend schedules?

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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Colby,

In his posting Mark is wondering, so he's inviting suggestions/guesses before the Press Office announces. It's like a game, a bit of fun, something completely absent from your postings!

John

Briant · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject:

I think Terry may replace Paul O'Grady in the weekend schedule.

'Just a hunch, Frank. Sometimes a hunch pays off, sometimes it doesn't.' Cool

SantaFefan · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject:

I hope he doesn't... I'm getting to like O'Grady now - and the music he plays. Sad

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Nickherts · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Hertfordshire

I was assuming he would be in his Christmas Day slot of 9.00 to 11.00 but the live audience angle suggests 11.00 to 1.00. I'd be surprised if its anything later as that would be out of peak time on a Sunday. Can't see this show being on a Saturday.

Fred · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject:

Without knowing the circumstances (ie contracts with other weekend presenters), its hard to know! I doubt it would be an overnight one Wink

so Richard Allinson is safe!

Obviously the specialist shows would remain - SOT60s, SOT70s, POTP etc. (hopefully this is obvious to the BBC Laughing

I wonder if a Wogan show would work Sunday 9-11? (In place of Sunday Love Songs); I'm not saying that because I want to start rumours - I'm saying it because it stands out to me as a programme which hasn't seen any major changes in years, and if it was to be replaced by Wogan, Steve still has his afternoon show.
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Live In front of an audience would indicate later in the day. I couldn't see Sunday Love Songs being ditched, nethier could I see Michael Ball being removed, although he's doing some long tours now. Maybe move Alan Titchmarsh show forward, or to a weekday evening slot?

Daz_M · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 40 Location: England

I can see it being a Sunday.

Michael Ball and Sounds of the 70's I really hope remain unaffected.

Sunday Love Songs I can’t see changing. I would guess Elaine Paige moved to a weekday evening shift and Wogan presenting the 1-3 shift.
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"And in the new year, I'll be starting a really exciting new show, live from the BBC Radio Studio at Broadcasting House in front of you, as my live audience, presenting the very pinnacle of live music, artists, guests, and of course, you, your mail, your warmth, your wit…

As I understood things, BH is all but closed on a Sunday, with nothing other than news/travel being broadcast live from there, so I still think Saturday is the more likely.
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I heard Wogan will start his new weekend live show in Feb 2010. Looks like that will be the best time too let Chris Evans settle into Breakfast. It would be slightly silly starting Wogans new show at the same week as Evans.

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"Chris Evans, on the other hand, can be expected to jump programmes a bit more quickly. After all he's not retiring".

OK I'll be the first to say it. What a pity. Unfortunately he isn't retiring in any possible way.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

The obvious place for Terry's new show would be 10 til 12 noon on Saturday - the old Saturday Club slot. The present incumbent is pre-recorded so he can be fitted in somewhere else - he's been on borrowed time since last October, anyway - when does his contract run out?
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I can't see Wossy giving up Radio 2 on a Saturday? Although I did read on Digital Spy a thread saying "who would replace Johnny Vaughan on the Capital Radio London breakfast if he left, someone replied Jonathan Ross. Laughing

Fred · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:19 am Post subject:

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

It is recorded on Thurday or Friday. Bob Shennan did say on Feedback that the show is recorded Live and not stop and started over and over again. The show isn't edited that much as well.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19380 Location: Cheshire

I wonder if Wogan will take Gambo's slot?

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Minx · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:37 am Post subject:

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Actually after I wrote I thought maybe they could put Gambo back to his earlier slot and put Wogan on after him?

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject:

I think Wogan will be Sunday afternoons, although I've got nothing to back this up.

I reckon Love Songs is being axed, with Ball and Paige moving down the schedule (possibly with Elaine going back to 90minutes), then Wogan comes on with his live show. A bit like the old Desmond Carrington show.

Like I say, I've got nothing to base this on apart from knowing Ball and Paige have April-to-April contracts and Steve Wright has been quite subdued this week, as if the wind has been taken out of his sails.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19380 Location: Cheshire

I've heard Wogan say his new show starts February a couple of times Ian. I wonder if Alan Titchmarsh is finishing? I hope not but I think he started in January so that would fit in timing wise.

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Sunday Love Songs isn't a show which is set out as a public purpose in the programme policy. I can't see the show been scrapped. If Wogan show was too be aired on a Sunday as a live show in front of an audience, it will be later in the day.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19380 Location: Cheshire

I don't think anyone is saying Wogan will get the Sunday Love Songs slot Mark, but others will move into it to make way for Wogan later in the day.

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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:32 am Post subject:

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My guess is, Wogan's weekend show will be on Saturday or maybe Sunday but for sure it will be one of those days. Either day it will be most welcome.

MadeinSurrey · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:28 am Post subject:

Not necessarily, your icon-ship! Some of us say the weekend starts 5pm Friday, so why not a "Start-the-weekend-with-Wogan" shpw?
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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:41 am Post subject:

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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

I think Wogan would fit neatly into the 6PM slot on Saturdays. He could happilly replace the squawking one with the odd voice currently making R2 unlistenable at that time.

NickSheffield · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 508

Just listened to this from Simon Mayo's show on the day of Terry's annoucement:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8242855.stm

Gillian Reynolds seems to take for granted that Terry's moving to Sunday afternoons.

Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

El Tel will definetly move to sometime on the Sunday schedules imho.

Hopefully any reshuffle will spell the end for the dire Steve Wright Sunday Love Songs Show.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19380 Location: Cheshire

Maybe it's not going to be a weekly show but a 'once in a while' one?

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