Children in Need 2008

Television campaign

Artist performances

• The 2008 show opened with McFly performing "Stay With Me", one of the songs from this year's official Children in Need double A side single, before rushing off to Birmingham, to continue their tour
• Emma Barton from EastEnders performed "You to Me are Everything"
• Boyzone performed their latest single "Love You Anyway" live from the Belfast Children in Need event
• Duffy performed "Rain on Your Parade" from her album Rockferry
• Leon Jackson gave an exclusive first performance of "Creative" - the second single to be released from his album Right Now
• Girls Aloud performed their Number 1 hit "The Promise" from their album Out of Control
• Take That performed their new single "Greatest Day"
• Sugababes opened the second part of the show with "Girls"
• McFly appeared again to perform the other song from the double A side "Do Ya." This was pre-recorded due to the band leaving early
• Duffy made a second appearance to perform her song "Mercy"
• Alesha Dixon made a second appearance, this time singing "The Boy Does Nothing" from her album The Alesha Show
• One Night Only performed "Just for Tonight"
• Il Divo performed "The Power of Love " from their 2008 album The Promise
• Boyzone made a second appearance to perform "Love Me for a Reason", again live from Belfast
• Will Young performed his new single "Grace" from his album Let It Go
• Stereophonics performed "Have a Nice Day" from their 2001 album Just Enough Education to Perform from the Cardiff event
• John Barrowman performed "What About Us" from his second album Music Music Music
• Jason Donovan performed a cover version of "Be My Baby"
• James Morrison and Keisha Buchanan performed a duet of "Broken Strings", a song he originally recorded with Nelly Furtado
• Russell Watson performed a cover of "Me and Mrs. Jones"
• Sharleen Spiteri performed "All the Times I Cried" from her solo album Melody in Glasgow
• Enya performed "Trains and Winter Rains" from her 2008 album And Winter Came... from Belfast
• Katie Melua performed "The Closest Thing to Crazy" from her first album Call Off the Search
• Revelation, finalists in "Last Choir Standing" and Sharon D. Clarke, one of the judges from the show, performed a cover of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

  Cast performances

• The cast of The Bill put together a tribute to The Blues Brothers
• The cast from the 2009 revival of Oliver! performed a medley of songs from the show featuring the winners of I'd Do Anything
• The cast of EastEnders performed a tribute to West End Theatre featuring songs from Moulin Rouge!, My Fair Lady, Saturday Night Fever, Billy Elliot and Mary Poppins
• The BBC Newsreaders performed a tribute to ABBA as their 2008 contribution
• A group of BBC presenters lip synced to "Rockstar"
• The cast of the London production of Hairspray arrived straight from the night's production to perform "You Can't Stop the Beat"
• The crew from DIY SOS performed a cover of "Addicted to Love"

  Others

• Merlin in Need a special 2 minute sketch from Merlin.
• A special junior edition of MasterChef
• A special episode of Strictly Come Dancing with Terry Wogan and Flavia Cacace dancing against regular 'Strictly' presenter Tess Daly who was partnered with Anton Du Beke
• A preview clip from the 2008 Christmas Special of Doctor Who
• A special, How to Look Good Naked in Weatherfield, a combination of Coronation Street and How to Look Good Naked
• A sketch of The Royle Family sitting watching Children in Need
• Another combination, this time Richard Hammond from Top Gear appeared in a special one off mini episode of Ashes to Ashes
• A short sketch of Alex Salmond MSP, portraying Rikki Fulton's Rev I M Jolly. This was only shown in the Scottish region
• WWE wrestler Kofi Kingston and Hardeep Singh Kohli had a match on a WWE video game. This was only shown in the Scottish Region.

  ''QI''

''Celebrity Scissorhands''

Official single

Other activities

Totals