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The Big Snog
''The Big Snog'' was a charity telethon raising money for The Hysteria Trust, which aired on Channel 4 on World AIDS Day in 1995. It was hosted by Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, Jenny Eclair, Dale Winton, and Lenny Henry. The full lineup also included Harry Enfield, Phil Kay, Jeremy Hardy, Rich Hall, Jimeoin, Lee Evans (comedian), Lee Evans, The Pretenders, Alan Davies, Charlie Higson, Paul Whitehouse, Julian Clary, Nick Hancock, Kate Robbins, Tony Hawks, Nicholas Parsons, Hugh Dennis, Ann Bryson, Annabel Giles, John Thomson (comedian), John Thomson, Eddie Izzard, and Hugh Laurie. ''The Big Snog'' was the second charity fundraiser to be produced by Pozzitive Television for World AIDS Day, with Filth! in 1994 and Stephen Fry's 'Live From The Lighthouse' in 1998. References Charity events {{UK-charity-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV (TV network), ITV. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
