I was just wondering (and apologies if it's been addressed hundreds of times) while I realise obviously that the Sunday show is recorded, why Tess/Claudia insist on saying "on Saturday night" and "on Sunday night" rather than "last night"/"tomorrow night"? It seems to draw more attention to it for me. If I'm meeting somebody tomorrow night, I call it tomorrow night, I don't say "I'll see you on Tuesday" or whatever. And you never get the hosts of The One Show signing off on a Monday night by saying "We'll see you on Tuesday", they say "tomorrow night".

I know it's picky but it baffles me! Is there some weird legal thing that they're not allowed to say "last night"/"tomorrow night" when one show is live and one's recorded? Or is it with a view to overseas sales maybe (although if that were the case they could just cut sentences out)?

By the way, I don't want a big debate on the whys and wherefores of why the results show is recorded to begin with, I realise that has been done many times!

The only thing i can think if is if something truly newsworthy happened during sunday and they had to re-scedule the results show to Monday.

But I see where youre coming from, it gives more of a sense that the dancing happend just recently by saying "lastnight"

That occurred to me too but surely to allow for that they'd remove even the mentions of "Sunday" from the Saturday show and just say "the results show"...

They don't want anybody to accuse them of lying is my guess. If they say dances were on Saturday night, it's correct. If they broadcast that dances were 'last night' somebody can nitpick and say it was recorded on Saturday and last night would be Friday. There are people who'd have a field day about it, I am sure.

They always used to refer to tomorrow during the live as broadcast show & yesterday/last night for the results show.
Probably changed because people were getting uppity about the fact the Sunday show is recorded live but not broadcast live. Some people still cannot get their heads round this & whinged about how they referred to the earlier/later shows as lying.

Seems daft. I'd much rather it at least sound logical even if they were "lying". Not that it matters to me that much in the scheme of things, but like I say I was curious.

It might have to do with the reference titles used for the whole production process.

If you zoom out from the thing we see on TV and think of it as a production there will be a whole project going on which starts weeks before the actual filming.

There will be scripts written, guests hired, sets built, crew scheduled, studios booked, camera positions planned, running orders prepared etc. There will be documentation and meetings and so forth for all of this stuff. All of these documents etc will have reference titles.

When it comes to the actual filming two projects come to fruition in one filming event. But in planning terms may well be classed as two projects. So all the meetings, documentation, discussions would be planned as two projects that will run simultaneously.

It maybe to make it clear which of the two events is under discussion and to avoid confusion they are in the habit of talking about them as the Saturday project/show and the Sunday project/show. (Plus a week number or date in each case)

If you encourage everyone involved to think and speak of it that way from the very earliest meetings and plans it helps keep the plans in their proper silos throughout the project. Everybody knows which bit of which show their task is for. It then makes sense to maintain that naming convention right up through the actual filming and into post production (for the Sunday show).

I don't know this by the way, I am just thinking about it from an operational point of view and wondering how I would approach such a project if I were the project director. Thinking about it from that point of view has made me realise that its quite operationally challenging to produce a live event with a delayed event embedded within it.

An interesting theory and I see where you're coming from, but surely it would be no great shakes to then just indulge the viewer and tweak the autocue script so it sounded a bit more natural. Couple of hits of CTRL-H would do it.

I'm inclined to think it's probably the "lie avoidance" reasoning suggested above by IvanIV.

I'd suggest it's because a lot of people are likely to watch on catch-up and it might be a tad confusing to hear them say "last night" if you're watching on a Thursday. But your guess is as good as mine.

I have no idea why the results show is recorded, it makes no sense to me at all.