Anyone who watched the babeshows during the late 2000s will tell you the same thing – you never quite knew what you were going to see. Those were the peak years of the Freeview babeshow boom, when late-night channels were competing fiercely for viewers and producers were constantly experimenting with new ideas. Sometimes that meant unusual sets. Sometimes it meant strange technical experiments. And sometimes it simply meant something completely unexpected happening live on air.
Looking back through archived babeshow blogs from that era, it’s amazing how many strange and memorable moments there were. Some were deliberate ideas from producers trying something different. Others were simply the result of late-night television being a little bit chaotic. Either way, they’ve become part of babeshow folklore.
When Party Girls Invaded the Daytime Studio
One of the most unusual broadcasts involved Mistress Yvette, who appeared on a domination-themed segment of Party Girls that was filmed on the set normally used by the daytime programme The Chat.
Both shows were produced in the same studio complex, but their sets were normally kept completely separate. On this particular night, however, the familiar black Party Girls backdrop was replaced with the distinctive white set used by the daytime show. For viewers who recognised the set straight away, it was a strange moment – a late-night babeshow suddenly appearing in what was clearly a daytime studio environment.
Crossovers like that were extremely rare.
Reede Fox and the Legendary Sexstation Lift
Some locations from the old studios became famous among long-time babeshow viewers. One of the strangest was the ancient lift at the old Sexstation studios, which occasionally appeared in promotional photo shoots for Partyland. But for a long time it never actually appeared during a live Freeview broadcast.
Eventually that changed during a Partyland show in June 2009. Reede Fox remembers that lift very clearly.
“I remember that manky old lift very well. It looked ancient even back then. When they suggested filming a segment in there I thought it felt more like the setting for a horror film than a babeshow.”
The sequence created a surprisingly dramatic atmosphere, with dark lighting and a slightly gothic feel that was completely different from the usual studio sets. As far as anyone knows, it was the only time the lift was ever used for a live Freeview babeshow segment.
The Strange Early Days of BS Xtra
Another curious chapter in babeshow history came with the early experiments surrounding BS Xtra. When the show first appeared in 2009 it went through several different formats in a very short period of time. At one stage the programme experimented with a text-only format, encouraging viewers to message the show rather than call in. For a brief period the graphics even removed the telephone number entirely and replaced it with the instruction:
“TEXT THE SHOW!”
For a format built around premium-rate calls, it was a very unusual experiment. The show eventually evolved into a more familiar phone-in format, but those early broadcasts remain one of the strangest technical experiments of the Freeview babeshow era.
The Kind of Moments You Only Saw on Babeshows
Part of the charm of the old Freeview era was its unpredictability.
Because the shows ran live for hours each night, producers were constantly trying new ideas – unusual camera angles, strange locations, experimental formats and anything else that might keep viewers watching.
Some ideas worked. Some clearly didn’t.
But together they created a late-night television environment that felt spontaneous and occasionally chaotic – which is exactly why so many long-time fans still remember it so fondly.
A Snapshot of a Different Era
Looking back today, these strange little moments capture the spirit of the babeshows during their most experimental years. The channels were competing fiercely, producers were pushing the limits of what they could do on television, and viewers were discovering new surprises almost every night.
Many of those ideas only happened once and were never repeated. But thanks to archived babeshow blogs and recordings preserved online, these rare glimpses into the weird and wonderful world of Freeview babeshows are still remembered by fans who watched it all unfold live.
Source note
This article references archived babeshow blogs from the early 2010s, preserved through the Internet Archive, which documented broadcasts from the Freeview babeshow era.
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