Children in Need 2015

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Children in Need 2015
Genre Telethon
Presented by Dermot O'Leary
Tess Daly
Fearne Cotton
Shane Richie
Nick Grimshaw
Rochelle Humes
Narrated by Alan Dedicoat
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production location BBC Elstree Centre
Camera setupMultiple
Original release
Network
Release14 November 2015 (2015-11-14)
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Children in Need 2015 is a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for the charity Children in Need. 2015 marks the 30th birthday of the charity's mascot, Pudsey Bear, since 1985, and the 35th anniversary of the appeal which culminated in a live broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two on the evening of Friday 13 November until the early hours of Saturday 14 November. The broadcast was hosted by Dermot O'Leary, a last minute stand in for Sir Terry Wogan, with Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton, Rochelle Humes and Nick Grimshaw as co-hosts. Shane Richie hosted the period the show was broadcasting on BBC Two. [1]

Contents

The show was broadcast from the BBC in Elstree but also includes regular regional opt-outs. Wogan did, however, appear in a pre-filmed Sketch and provided a documentary voice over, but was unable to present the live section of the fundraiser due to ill health, which was to be for the first and only time since its launch in 1980. [2] Wogan died in January 2016, making Children in Need 2014 his last appearance as host.

Telethon

The culmination of Children in Need was the live telethon broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two on 13 November from the BBC Elstree Centre. [3]

Music

Sketches

Local Opt-outs

As well as the main telethon the BBC Regions hosted their own events and provided coverage of where the money goes in their region. They handed coverage over to these from the main telethon 3 times throughout the first part of the telethon stopping around 10pm. Some of these events provided a choir in the Children in Need Choir

The events were held at:

The Choirs in the Children in Need Choir were at the main telethon in Elstree and the events in Gloucester, Belfast, Keswick, Great Yarmouth, Llandudno, Jersey, Blackpool, Glasgow and Arundel

Totals

The following are totals with the times they were announced on the televised show.

DateTimeTotal
13 November 201521:05£15,171,304
13 November 201521:57£23,069,187
14 November 201502:00£37,100,687

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