Children's TV on Trial

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Nick Harvey Founding member 26 May 2007 11:08pm

Have just watched the Verdict programme when I got home. Excellent stuff.

Will watch the Time Shift one tomorrow night, recording the 00:30 repeat.

It DOES look like a damn fine week of material on BBC Four.

NE

Netizen 27 May 2007 12:35am

I was surprised by how much the kids enjoyed the 50's programming. You would expect some of the 70/80's stuff to be ropey but some of that seemed to go down well too, quite often with remarks on how it's not so different to current shows. Nice to see all thumbs up for Chucklevision though!

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Put The Telly On 27 May 2007 12:58am

Loving the classic clips and these children watching them seem very well educated.

Interesting how Chucklevision started out as an educational style "to-camera" programme.

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tvmercia Founding member 27 May 2007 1:19am

russnet posted:

Two very good programmes on tonight which are being repeated later on BBC Four.

Children's TV on Trial: The Kids Verdict featured 4 kids watching tv programmes over the decades but going for the Stars In Their Eyes treatment by giving them a full make over in clothing and they designed living rooms to match the era. They also showed BBC1 globes from said eras too.

highly irritating, gobby, pushy children. awful. luckily i could fast forward through the dross to get to the clips and the adults.

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Put The Telly On 27 May 2007 2:30am

Interesting timeshift documentary about the changing shape of Children's TV. Personally I agree that Children's TV is disappearing from mainstream TV and its a big shame but times move on. The future of Blue Peter does look bleak.

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tvmercia Founding member 27 May 2007 2:33am

i see they've still got that awful announcer on bbc 4.

:-(

A former member 27 May 2007 2:54am

nok32uk posted:

Interesting timeshift documentary about the changing shape of Children's TV. Personally I agree that Children's TV is disappearing from mainstream TV and its a big shame but times move on. The future of Blue Peter does look bleak.

Well it's just one more area of public service broadcasting that's slowly being flushed down the toilet.

The "times move on" argument is responsible for where we are now. When we're all paying �400 per year for 3 dozen BBC channels, all showing utter crap, in 10 years' time that will also be "progress" I guess.

You're right in the sense that it's all inevitable though -- TV will eventually dissolve into IPTV on demand, and all quality broadcasting will cease entirely at that point.

JV

James Vertigan Founding member 27 May 2007 10:49am

tvmercia posted:

i see they've still got that awful announcer on bbc 4.

Neil Nunes - has done continuity on Radio 4 in the past and also stuff for BBC World Service.

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stevek 27 May 2007 11:24am

any ideas when this is on BBC1 or 2?

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Steve in Pudsey 27 May 2007 11:39am

Nice to see behind the scenes in NC2 with Phillip Schofield as part of that, and plenty of globes etc.

It might have been interesting to have shown the kids the BBC News of the 70's, as something to compare the Newsround of the day to.

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Asa Admin 27 May 2007 11:55am

tvmercia posted:

highly irritating, gobby, pushy children. awful

I thought that Jonti was clearly very TV savvy in his confidence and general manner!

Good show - I'm looking forward to the series.

And nice effort for the season's ident too (who needs BBC Two?!)

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Westy2 27 May 2007 6:55pm

While it's nice to see the docs get repeated the same evening, why can't BBC4 get the rights for more than one showing the same night of the archive programmes?

I end up missing some stuff as it clashes & it's not convient to set the video.

(May 2007)