And as such there are ITV’s biggest celebrities doing their bit in a Xmas knit all day in the hope you will donate for the cause. Of interest:
- Judge Rinder for Text Santa: Featuring the actual real Father Christmas. Let’s hope he’s not the defendant, eh? (2pm)
- 1000 Heartbeats for Text Santa: Keith Lemon and Tess Daly (point of note for our foreign chums, Tess hosts Strictly Come Dancing and is Vernon Kay’s wife) play for charity whilst the evil Paul Farrer and the Heartbeats Strings try to distract them. (3pm)
- Tipping Point for Text Santa: Featuring Mark Foster, Bobby George, Chris Kamara and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. Will their sporting prowess give them an advantage over the machine? It’s all about the timing! (4pm)
- The Chase For Text Santa: TV’s Robert Rinder, Andrea McClean, Brian McFadden, and Denise Robertson play for charity whilst the evil Chaser tries to deny them. (5pm)
- Text Santa Christmas Jumper Day: The main live telethon event. It’d be easy to dismiss this as a bit rubbish, what with Children in Need and Comic Relief being a bit rubbish to watch these days, but last year had some legitimately fun moments and sketches so you never know. (8-11ish)
You can text SANTA5 or SANTA10 to 70760 to donate £5 or £10 through your phone bill, or you can donate what you like online.
Ninja Warrior for Text Santa will be airing during the main Text Santa show, Kimberly Wyatt, Gemma Atkinson, Louise Hazel, Mark Wright, Torvill & Dean, Carl Froch, Marvin Humes, Ryan Thomas and Ugo Monye are taking on the course to help raise money.
I got off easy I just had to man the chocolate coin rolling game at the Christmas Fair for an hour.
http://www.itv.com/ninjawarrior
1000 Heartbeats was very good. I particularly enjoyed Paul Farrer cracking up while conducting.
Ratings of painless interest:
14:00 – Judge Rinder for Text Santa: 1.00m (14.8%)
15:00 – 1000 Heartbeats for Text Santa: 0.89m (11.2%)
16:00 – Tipping Point for Text Santa: 2.27m (21.1%)
17:00 – The Chase for Text Santa: 3.56m (24.2%)
20:00 – Text Santa: 3.88m (20.7%)
12:15 – Bargain Hunt: 1.80m (29.1%)
17:15 – Pointless: 3.25m (21.2%)
20:00 – Mastermind: 1.92m (9.5%)
*potential interest!
Yep, put the 1KHB one in that thread, if that’s the level (ie not inflated for Text Santa) it’s probably approaching a conversation about a recommission. Miles ahead of Pick Me at any rate.
I noticed the ITV costume department seemingly had a shortage of Xmas jumper designs based on the fact that one of the chasers was wearing the exact same Xmas jumper as Vernon Kay on 1KHB. Pretty sure one of the contestants was wearing the same jumper as Tess Daly too!