Hogmanay Live
Hogmanay Live 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.
| Hogmanay Live | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | New Year's television special |
| Created by | BBC Scotland |
| Presented by | See below |
| Country of origin | Scotland |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Production locations | The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow |
| Running time | 60 minutes (often with a preview programme earlier in the evening) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One Scotland (1991–present) BBC Two Scotland (1999) BBC Scotland (2019–present) BBC Red Button |
| Original release | 31 December 1991 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The White Heather Club |
| Related shows | BBC's New Year's Eve |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The programme features 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, Its current presenters are Susan Calman, Des Clarke and Amy Irons. 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 program, 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.
History
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. Hogmanay Live, briefly renamed New Year Live when it was networked in 1998, has continued this tradition, giving viewers a chance to both reflect on the year gone by and look forward to the year ahead in a uniquely Scottish fashion. Jackie Bird's parts in Glasgow are filmed in advance of Hogmany and are not live.
In 2019, Hogmanay Live was renamed to Hogmanay 2019, was presented by Calman, Clarke and Irons, and was not filmed live.[2]
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.[3]
Broadcasts
The programme is broadcast throughout the United Kingdom on BBC One Scotland. BBC One's London celebration, BBC's New Year's Eve 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.
| No. | Year | Presenter(s) | Guest(s) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1991–92 |
Various |
Unknown |
Various |
| 2 | 1992–93 | |||
| 3 | 1993–94 | |||
| 4 | 1994–95 | |||
| 5 | 1995–96 | |||
| 6 | 1996–97 | |||
| 7 | 1997–98 | |||
| 8 | 1998–99 | |||
| 9 | 1999–00 | |||
| 10 | 2000–01 | |||
| 11 | 2001–02 | |||
| 12 | 2002–03 | |||
| 13 | 2003–04 | |||
| 14 | 2004–05 | |||
| 15 | 2005–06 |
Princes Street, Edinburgh | ||
| 16 | 2006–07 |
Phil & Aly |
Great Hall, Edinburgh | |
| 17 | 2007–08 |
Jackie Bird |
Phil & Aly |
Pacific Quay, Glasgow |
| 18 | 2008–09 |
Jackie Bird |
Phil & Aly |
Princes Street, Edinburgh |
| 19 | 2009–10 |
Jackie Bird |
Pacific Quay, Glasgow | |
| 20 | 2010–11 |
Jackie Bird |
Phil & Aly | |
| 21 | 2011–12 |
Phil & Aly | ||
| 22 | 2012–13 |
Jackie Bird |
Princes Street, Edinburgh | |
| 23 | 2013–14 |
Jackie Bird |
Phil and Aly |
Princes Street, Edinburgh |
| 24 | 2014–15 |
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow | ||
| 25 | 2015–16 |
Phil & Aly | ||
| 26 | 2016–17 |
Jackie Bird |
Phil & Aly |
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow |
| 27 | 2017–18 |
Jackie Bird |
Phil & Aly |
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow |
| 28 | 2018–19 |
Jackie Bird |
Phil & Aly | |
| 29 | 2019–20 |
Susan Calman |
Travis | Pacific Quay, Glasgow |
| 30 | 2020–21 | Susan Calman | Amy Macdonald Deacon Blue Blazin' Fiddles |
In popular culture
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.
During Hogmanay Live 2001, one of presenter Jackie Bird's many costume changes included a small gold glittery top. Amid derision from the media,[4][5][6] 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
- "BBC – Join Susan Calman, Des Clarke and Amy Irons for Hogmanay 2019 – Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- "Stirling to first-foot the nation as BBC screens Hogmanay fireworks live". www.stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- Dailyrecord.co.uk (29 December 2010). "Jackie Bird:I promise my Hogmanay dress won't be a fright night, son". dailyrecord.co.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- "Should all those howlers be forgot". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- "Who told Jackie Bird to take the plunge?". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 20 July 2017.