BBC
Children In Need 2003 - Press pack
Friday 21 November, BBC ONE
It's the time of year again when the nation goes fundraising crazy
all in the name of a cuddly yellow bear.
Pudsey's
fluffing up his fur to join Terry Wogan and Gaby
Roslin on Friday 21 November, when BBC ONE brings the 24th
televised BBC Children In Need Appeal to our screens.
In
a mammoth seven hours of entertainment, viewers will be treated
to:
Something
a little bit special . . .
•
Stars from EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Merseybeat come
together in Albert Square for a surreal remake of The Wizard Of
Oz.
There's
only one 'Dorothy' suitable for the starring role but who will be
the all-seeing great Wizard?
•
All for charity, stars from 'the other channels' have climbed through
their TV sets and onto BBC ONE.
Coronation
Street stars bring a glitzy song-and-dance spectacular, while Kim
and Aggie from How Clean Is Your House? perform a specially rewritten
version of Scandalous with the Mis-teeq girls providing the backing
vocals.
•
The BBC newsreading team just can't resist another chance to shed
their composed and respectable image! This year, they get down to
the Motown sound.
•
Morecambe & Wise's hilarious kitchen sketch is recreated by
celebrity chefs Ainsley Harriott and Antony Worrall Thompson.
•
Doctor Who, the Cybermen and the Daleks are brought back to life
by the Dead Ringers team, who find themselves on The Weakest Link
in the ultimate evil showdown.
•
BBC THREE's 3 Non-Blondes get up to more of their usual tricks.
•
And, for viewers who can't catch the whole night, the anarchic Reduced
Shakespeare Company boils the whole seven hours down into one three-minute
shebang after 1.00am on BBC TWO.
Musical
flavour in the form of:
•
Shane Richie, the nation's favourite TV barman, sings this year's
charity single – a cover of the Wham! classic I'm Your Man
(which goes on sale on Monday 24 November).
•
Superstar performances by Sting, Meatloaf, Phil Collins and Sir
Cliff Richard.
•
Sensational sets from Texas, Atomic Kitten and Kool and the Gang,
Rachel Stevens, Mis-teeq, Big Bruvaz, Will Young, Girls Aloud, Enrique,
and Donny Osmond and Michael Buble.
•
Pop faves Holly Valance, The Cheeky Girls, S Club 8, Blazin' Squad
and more perform at BBC Children In Need concerts in Maidstone,
Stoke and Weymouth.
•
Special outside broadcasts feature Westlife in Belfast, Gareth Gates
in Glasgow and world-renowned Welsh baritone, Bryn Terfel, in Cardiff.
•
West End glamour comes from the casts of Les Miserables, Tonight's
The Night: The Rod Stewart Musical and Anything Goes.
Celebrity
Dog School
Celebrity
Bargain Hunt
BBC
Radio 2
BBC
Nations and Regions pop concerts
BBC
Radio and TV in the Nations & Regions
The
charity
Case
studies
www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
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