Comic relief 2022

[Col87]

I think Sport Relief seemed to work as they had a bit of a point of difference. The content could focus on Sports vs the more generic stuff that Comic Relief seems to have moved towards (and like Children in Need does). But in recent years it all seems to have mashed together anyway, less focus on sports - didn't they ditch the Sport Relief Mile years ago now?

It would be interesting to know the internal decision behind this, as you can hardly say that the every other year thing has been a disaster for the brands involved.

exactly my point. While Sport Relief did have some stuff that was probably better for comic relief and some years it did not have as much sport content it’s always had some differences. The last two sport reliefs had the clash of the channel boat race and and the two before that had the clash of the titans with various sport stars celebrities doing various sports. 2018 was probably the best it had been in years with the boat race the return of the celebrity boxing the 24 hour 5 a side football and other stuff so unless some of the sport relief content like celebrity boxing and the clash of the channels boat race is going to become part of Comic relief Red Nose Day then that content will be lost which would be a shame. Compared to the last couple of red nose days all have been truly awful with no bits that really stand out at all. I know they can use the covid excuse for this year but they have no excuse for how bad 2017 and 2019 where. I just hope hope they keep the best of sport relief and go back to good years of comic relief when it was unscripted and anything could happen. If not perhaps Children in need could take over some of the better sport relief stuff and use it for their telethon. The problem why all three seem similar is probably to do by the fact all three made by the same production team at BBC Studios even some of the presenters have gone from one to the other hopefully if one good thing comes from this they will all have their own presenters sticking to just the one telethon.