Red Nose Day 2009

Red Nose Day 2009
Also known as	Red Nose Day 2009: Do Something Funny for Money
Genre	Telethon
Presented by	David Tennant Davina McCall Jonathan Ross Claudia Winkleman Fearne Cotton Reggie Yates Noel Fielding Fern Britton Alan Carr Graham Norton James Corden Mathew Horne
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Executive producer	Richard Curtis
Production location	BBC Television Centre
Camera setup	Multiple
Running time	8 hours 45 minutes (525 minutes)
Original release
Network	BBC One, BBC Two
Release	13 March (2009-03-13) – 14 March 2009 (2009-03-14)
Related
Red Nose Day 2007: The Big One Red Nose Day 2011 Let's Dance for Comic Relief Comic Relief Does The Apprentice

Red Nose Day 2009 was a fund-raising event organised by Comic Relief, broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Two from the evening of 13 March 2009 to early the following morning. It was part of the "Do Something Funny For Money" campaign. It was held on Friday 13 March till Saturday 14 March 2009 from 7:00 pm to 3:45 am on BBC One.

The Mount Kilimanjaro total was £3,500,000. The Wine Relief total was £750,000. A notable, single donation of £6,000,000 was donated by an anonymous donor. £501,863 was raised by Ryman. Foxybingo.com raised £150,000. Subway managed to raise £407,763.

BBC Two's special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops, drew an impressive 6.73m (31.6%) over 35 minutes.

Best bits from the series so far.

Pre-recorded final installment.

The BT Red Nose Climb saw nine celebrities successfully scale 19,330 feet (5,890 m) to reach the summit of Africa's highest mountain to raise money for Comic Relief. On 27 February 2009, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating, Chris Moyles, Ben Shephard, Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh, Denise Van Outen, Fearne Cotton, and Alesha Dixon set off to Tanzania to tackle Mount Kilimanjaro with project manager and guide Jeremy Gane of Charity Challenge. The Climb has already raised in excess of £3.5 million with over £1.8 million coming from the audience of BBC Radio 1 (a record for the station.) All nine celebrities reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro on Saturday, 7 March 2009.^[1] Cheryl Cole, Fearne Cotton, Denise Van Outen and Ben Shephard reached the summit first at sunrise. On Thursday 12 March 2009 BBC One's 'Kilimanjaro: The Big Red Nose Climb' was seen by 8.74m viewers (36.6% share). British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with the group upon their return to the United Kingdom and congratulated the "nine heroes" on their achievement, saying that they were "inspiring a generation of kids who would never have thought about these things".^[2]

• BBC Red Nose Day Page
• Red Nose Day Official Website
• Red Nose Day Schedule