BR
Suspect the target audience were their parents.
There was a Zig & Zag cartoon on the CBBC channel a few years back, which always struck me as odd, seeing as the target audience wouldn't have even been born when they were popular.
Suspect the target audience were their parents.
IS
Why should that matter? If they're good characters and the programme's produced well and to modern expectations then their history doesn't matter.
My kids quite like watching Noddy, but not even I was born when that was first popular
There was a Zig & Zag cartoon on the CBBC channel a few years back, which always struck me as odd, seeing as the target audience wouldn't have even been born when they were popular.
Why should that matter? If they're good characters and the programme's produced well and to modern expectations then their history doesn't matter.
My kids quite like watching Noddy, but not even I was born when that was first popular
NJ
Why should that matter? If they're good characters and the programme's produced well and to modern expectations then their history doesn't matter.
My kids quite like watching Noddy, but not even I was born when that was first popular
Indeed, by the same logic the likes of Sooty should have vanished years ago.
But of course its a modern trend to reinvent/relaunch the classic characters for modern audiences, something which Sooty was relatively easy to do in his traditional form of a yellow bear with black ears because that's all he is. Something more detailed like Noddy (ie a hand drawn character) tends to suffer from artistic liberty on every relaunch as they tend to get further away from the original intentions.
Zig & Zag probably won't have the issue of needing "updating", considering their backstory and the fact that's probably how they all look on their home planet
Neil Jones
Founding member
There was a Zig & Zag cartoon on the CBBC channel a few years back, which always struck me as odd, seeing as the target audience wouldn't have even been born when they were popular.
Why should that matter? If they're good characters and the programme's produced well and to modern expectations then their history doesn't matter.
My kids quite like watching Noddy, but not even I was born when that was first popular
Indeed, by the same logic the likes of Sooty should have vanished years ago.
But of course its a modern trend to reinvent/relaunch the classic characters for modern audiences, something which Sooty was relatively easy to do in his traditional form of a yellow bear with black ears because that's all he is. Something more detailed like Noddy (ie a hand drawn character) tends to suffer from artistic liberty on every relaunch as they tend to get further away from the original intentions.
Zig & Zag probably won't have the issue of needing "updating", considering their backstory and the fact that's probably how they all look on their home planet
JA
Wasn't that at Bradford's National Museum of Film, Photography and Television?
Wasn't the final TV-am set on display there at one point?
NW
If you have a bit of time on your hands, the excellent TV Schools channel on YouTube has uploaded a whole morning’s worth of Schools junctions on S4C from 5 May 1995. Whilst it doesn’t happen in the first clip posted here, (subsequent junctions are on the channel) whoever was in transmission was having a bit of a nightmare that morning as there were several late opt outs from the Channel 4 feed.
JA
I knew what that promo was just by reading the post without having to click on the video, I remember it well. At the time it seemed like there was going to be a whole campaign based on the "because life's like that" slogan, but I don't think they ever made any more.
IT
I thought it was too - imagine my disappointment when I went last year to find almost all of the Film and Television galleries removed! Now theres the remnants of an old phootgprahy exhibition, a bit on kids TV and animation and a smidgen of TV including the old 2 logo. Everythings gone!
Wasn't that at Bradford's National Museum of Film, Photography and Television?
I thought it was too - imagine my disappointment when I went last year to find almost all of the Film and Television galleries removed! Now theres the remnants of an old phootgprahy exhibition, a bit on kids TV and animation and a smidgen of TV including the old 2 logo. Everythings gone!
JA
It's the "science and media museum" now, vastly inferior to what it was when I went in the early 00s.
NW
I thought it was too - imagine my disappointment when I went last year to find almost all of the Film and Television galleries removed! Now theres the remnants of an old phootgprahy exhibition, a bit on kids TV and animation and a smidgen of TV including the old 2 logo. Everythings gone!
What a shame, I went in 2009 and there were so many exhibits, I appreciate it is quite a niche but it was great to see it nevertheless. It was great to see a whole exhibit of TV studio cameras. Shame it’s all but gone now.
Wasn't that at Bradford's National Museum of Film, Photography and Television?
I thought it was too - imagine my disappointment when I went last year to find almost all of the Film and Television galleries removed! Now theres the remnants of an old phootgprahy exhibition, a bit on kids TV and animation and a smidgen of TV including the old 2 logo. Everythings gone!
What a shame, I went in 2009 and there were so many exhibits, I appreciate it is quite a niche but it was great to see it nevertheless. It was great to see a whole exhibit of TV studio cameras. Shame it’s all but gone now.