CBBC revive Saturday morning magazine show format

Yes I understand that those in charge fully appreciate the heritage of what they are doing and the heritage of it

This has given me a bit more faith, there know what a good and what's not, especially those runners on Da Bungalow ( which is far higher class of sat morning show compared to what it replaced)

To be fair, why dont there just look back at the archive of saturday morning telly? SMTV nicked alot of ideas from Fully booked ( s1 -s3) and Gimme 5. Its been 10 years something like this appeared there go looking at MOM, or Dick n dom, or Live and kicking.





I think I remember watching that, Im sure all the kids got a prizes.

Yeah Hacker is the best thing about it! I have the puppet!
I would love the gunge section to be more of a quiz with gunge tanks and more structure and not just throwing buckets over the guest.

They used gunge as a selling point as a staple of Saturday morning TV but it didn't really play a huge part in Going Live, L&K and SM:tv IMO.

On Live & Kicking I only remember it as part of Run the Risk and then in the 2000/01 series. As for SM:TV Live, Ant & Dec said no gunge on the first episode, I'm not sure if it featured when Stephen & Des were hosting when Stephen did magic bits.

Tiswas never used gunge either it was buckets of water.

Well I think that’s a bit padantic, if you asked most people they’d probably make the link. And you could say in a broad sense custud pies and throwing water fit into the broad category of gunging.

Live & Kicking had gunge in the Katy Hill, Otis Delay etc area but not in the golden age of the show. Well apart from Peter Simon’s Run the Risk of course. It also featured on the second version of The Saturday Show and I’m sure there was plently of that kind of thing on Dick & Dom. There has certainly been gunge on some of the summer filler shows and maybe on the Disney output on GMTV to.

So I wouldn’t say it’s a staple of Saturday morning TV but more a recurring theme of it.

Not sure I'd agree with that.



Pies/flans were also heavily used, of course.

Was just looking through one of the old CITV threads on here, and Ministry Of Mayhem was a lot better than I remember it, that Christmas special with Ricky Gervais was rather good. Ray, the German doctor and Mr Lee were okay characters although that ringtone game they had does seem horribly dated now.

The hyenas, Scratch and Sniff, were pretty good though, in no due part to them being done by Don Austen and John Eccleston who of course have done a lot of other work in puppeteering including the leprechauns (Sage and Onion or similar) on Live And Kicking. Fairly certain they did some work for CITV too.

IMO Mash-up is just about on par with MoM's best shows right now which is pretty good for it's first episode. Hopefully by the end of this year it will have hit it's stride and get good enough ratings to warrant another series.

To be fair Name that tone was of it time, and were moved on. The characters actually got of lot of mail and it's how Ram ray come back pretty quick, The Doc also ended up coming back for an Episodes but what do you do with Mr lee? Personnel i think there know the writing was on the wall. Don Austen and John Eccleston also did the two wolves on What's up doc/ Wolf it.

Mash-up is no where near MoM/saturday showdown best shows, but its got plenty of room to expanded. But I more concerned if it does work when the second series will happen, i dont think waiting till next September will help.



Not sure that is really gunge, more water and water related stuff

According to Broadcast via Digital Spy, the rating for BBC Two only was 124,000 with a 2% share of all available viewers. The CBBC Channel figure isn't known.

Its going to take a while for kids to understand this concept.