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It looks like Lauren Layfield has left CBBC HQ, she’s been removed from their website. I noticed she hasn’t been doing the continuity from home, only Rhys and Joe have been doing that.

If this is permanent, then that must be Lauren completely off CBBC, apart from The Playlist which she occasionally hosts. This is a shame as I think she’s a great host, I hope she makes it big.

It's not a surprise if she has, she presents early breakfast on Capital as well as covering for breakfast when Roman isn't in.


She would be always travelling between London and Manchester to do both, and her focus seems to be increasingly on her radio work, so it makes sense she would focus on London and put Capital first.

Besides, she already hosts The Playlist and The Dog Ate My Homework so it's not like she's entirely leaving the channel like Katie Thistleton.

Did Karim leave the HQ? If he did then I am really late to this information!

Not as of yet.

Saturday Mash Up: House Party, has been extended by three weeks, meaning there will now be nine episodes in total. This takes Saturday Mash Up to the end of series 3, unless they plan on extending it. It's obviously not the series they planned for, but they have worked well under the circumstances.

Hearing from social media that Colonel Tom Moore has been awarded a Gold Blue Peter Badge. Well deserved.

Here's a clip of the moment when Captain Tom was given the gold badge:

Exciting news! #BluePeter sent @Linds_bluepeter to meet @captaintommoore and award him a Gold Blue Peter badge for his incredible fundraising achievement and inspiring the nation during these difficult times. 💙

Watch the full clip 👉https://t.co/Im0Yf9nXeG pic.twitter.com/eK0ErRFdy3

— CBBC (@cbbc) May 5, 2020

Yet another unnecessary visitor in his garden then.

The new Blue Peter presenter won’t be revealed on the website in advance, it’ll be on the show next week. They haven’t explicitly mentioned the fact yet, but if you’ve seen the schedule then you would know. Something tells me, that due to the small amount of fanfare around it, it will be Naomi joining permanently or something.

Does anyone know the reason the See-Saw strand permanently moved to BBC Two in June 1987? I'm unsure if it was because BBC One's new daytime schedule was becoming cluttered with children's programmes, with the Children's BBC birthday morning and afternoon slots, or because See-Saw had been moved to Two on several occasions.

The closest Two had to regular children's programming after losing Play School and Play Away was You and Me, which was technically a school's programme that moved from BBC One as part of the Daytime on Two strand: I remember the IBA doing something similar with ITV Schools programming that same year, when it was moved to Channel 4 from September 14th, so the ITV franchises could fully branch out their daytime schedules.

Well, the former was highly likely to be the case, as daytime became more competitive there was seemingly less interest in stopping for a pre-school programme.

In the first year of a fully-fledged daytime schedule, See Saw was at 1.50 after Neighbours, although I've got a Radio Times somewhere when someone writes in and says that although it was billed at the time, it always came on a few minutes late and their kid had to sit through several minutes of the unsuitable Neighbours, so it was probably for everyone's benefit it moved. It certainly meant it didn't have to be booted around the schedule for sport and other events either.

It was the same reason why Playdays moved to BBC2 in 1994, it was seemingly getting Anne and Nick off to a weak start coming off the back of Playdays, as opposed to being part of a seamless schedule, and allowed them to get one jump on ITV. Not that it helped much.