National Lottery (United Kingdom) the games. The majority of National Lottery draws take place on live television. The first National Lottery show (entitled "The National Lottery Live: The First Draw") was at 7 pm on Saturday 19 November 1994. Presented by Noel Edmonds, this was an hour long special, in which 49 contestants competed to become the first person to start the draw, the winner being 18-year-old Deborah Walsh. The first number to be drawn was 30. For its first few years, the TV show took the title "The National Lottery Live", and was presented mainly by Anthea Turner or Bob Monkhouse. Other notable
The Live Desk (UK TV programme) presented by Charlotte Hawkins, Monday-Thursday, with Gillian Joseph on Fridays. When individual programme titles (such as Afternoon Live and Sky News Today) were dropped by Sky News in 2011, The Live desk was replaced with a standard 60-minute news bulletin. When the regular presenters were unavailable the show was hosted by Samantha Simmonds, Sarah Hughes, Steve Dixon. The Live Desk (UK TV programme) The Live Desk is a news programme which broadcast on Sky News in the United Kingdom from 8 September 2008 to 2011. Originally, "The Live Desk" aired twice at 9am and 1pm but from 11 January 2011