As the name implies, the series was broadcast live (so causing its own problems such as the infamous incident of the hacked email account).

The scope of the programme was much wider than the preceding computer series and had a less formal feel due to its live nature.

It regularly included stories from the United States and recorded various small but significant milestones, such as the first on-air transatlantic mobile phone call, made from Lesley Judd sitting in a Sinclair C5 outside Television Centre to Freff on the top of a New York skyscraper in a snowstorm.

Ian McNaught-Davis was once again the anchorman and he was joined over the course of the series by regulars Lesley Judd, Fred Harris and Connor Freff Cochran, an American journalist who did live broadcast and filmed reports from the USA.

Shortly before air, the floor manager had informed Ian McNaught-Davis the password for the account, unfortunately while his microphone was live.