Children in Need 2009 Children in Need 2009 Children in Need 2009 was a campaign held in the United Kingdom to raise money for Children in Need. It culminated in a live broadcast on BBC One which began on the evening of Friday 20 November and ran through to the morning of Saturday 21 November. The broadcast was hosted by Terry Wogan, Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon. Alan Dedicoat read out the running totals and Peter André reported from the BT Tower. The show was broadcast from BBC Television Centre in London. Dancing Pudseys were projected on to the building. The 2009 event raised
Doctor Who: Children in Need Need". The 2009 tie-in book "Doctor Who: Companions And Allies" attributes without source the title "Born Again". However, DWM's review of the book indicates this to have been an error and as of 2011 "Companions and Allies" remains the only officially licensed publication to use this title. Other specially made episodes of "Doctor Who" include "Dimensions in Time" (also for Children in Need) and "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death" (for Comic Relief), neither of which are usually considered canonical. The 20th-anniversary special, "The Five Doctors" (1983), was broadcast as part of that year's Children in Need night,