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BBC Scotland's Hogmanay

UK television program

BBC Scotland's Hogmanay is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast on Hogmanay, Scotland's New Year's Eve celebration. Regardless of location, the programme rings in the New Year with the firing of Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock Gun and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh.

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The programme in all its iterations feature a mixture of Scottish contemporary and folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh. Jackie Bird and Phil Cunningham often hosted together each year but from 2008 until 2019 she solely presented the programme. Cunningham does still appear on the programme, though not as a host.[1]

Carol Kirkwood reported on the 2016 edition of the show live from Edinburgh Castle. The show currently is hosted live from The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. Until 2013, Bird was live from Edinburgh Castle or Princes Street, but the show's producers decided that it should take place in Glasgow permanently.

In 2019, Hogmanay Live was rebranded to "Hogmanay" and since then, the programme has been pre-recorded. The current presenters are Edith Bowman and Amy Irons.

History

1991–2018: Hogmanay Live

Hogmanay Live 2006 titlecard

The programme has its roots in The White Heather Club which preceded it. Whilst Hogmanay Live is vastly different nowadays from the programme that came before it, The White Heather Club brought the Scottish tradition of Hogmanay to television for the first time.

Various incarnations and evolutions of the show have appeared over the years, such as The Hogmanay Show, which blend the old with the new and mark the beginning of a New Year from a distinctly Scottish perspective.

In 1998–99, the BBC broadcast the special nationally under the title New Year Live, which was presented by Fred MacAulay and Carol Smillie. The special was plagued by technical issues, with reviews criticizing MacAulay and Smillie's hosting (with MacAulay making several jokes relating to Smillie having been named "Rear of the Year"), its performances and comedy sketches, and critics considering the special to have presented a diluted, anglicised take on Hogmanay.[2]

2019–present: Hogmanay

In 2019, the format changed and Hogmanay Live was renamed to Hogmanay with the outgoing year added at the end, the first edition was presented by Calman, Clarke and Irons, and was not filmed live.[3]

The 2020 programme was again hosted by Calman and was pre-recorded without a studio audience. It was announced that Stirling Council would team up with BBC Scotland to organise a firework display over the Wallace Monument and Stirling Castle which would be broadcast on the programme from midnight.[4]

The 2021 programme saw Calman axed from the presenting line-up and replaced by Edith Bowman and Amy Irons. Again, the programme was pre-recorded but for the first time, saw the return of a studio audience.

Broadcasts

Leon Jackson performs on Hogmanay Live 2008

The programme is broadcast throughout the United Kingdom on BBC One Scotland. BBC One's London celebration, BBC New Year's Eve specials is also available in Scotland via digital television as well as BBC Two's Jools' Annual Hootenanny with Jools Holland.

Jackie Bird hosted the show every year from 1999 until 2018–19. Before then, it had various hosts.

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The show was regularly lampooned in BBC Scotland's 1979–92 Hogmanay comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry (which was screened immediately before in the schedule), which usually involved Rikki Fulton in a post-closing credits skit aimed directly at Hogmanay Live. Since 1993 Only an Excuse? has occupied the same schedule position and continued the parodies.[citation needed]

During Hogmanay Live 2001, one of presenter Jackie Bird's many costume changes included a small gold glittery top. Amid derision from the media,[5][6][7] the top became one of the infamous moments of that year's programme and was auctioned off for BBC Children in Need later in the year.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Archived copy". www.philcunningham.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. [2]
    Guide, British Comedy (31 December 2023). "Hogmanay Hell: The BBC's New Year Live 98 - Comedy Chronicles". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  3. [3]
    "BBC – Join Susan Calman, Des Clarke and Amy Irons for Hogmanay 2019 – Media Centre". BBC. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Stirling to first-foot the nation as BBC screens Hogmanay fireworks live". stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  5. [5]
    "Jackie Bird:I promise my Hogmanay dress won't be a fright night, son". Daily Record. London. 29 December 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  6. [6]
    "Should all those howlers be forgot". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  7. [7]
    "Who told Jackie Bird to take the plunge?". The Herald. Glasgow. 2 January 2001. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
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