CITV 30th Anniversary

Sorry you are wrong, it did pop up during the week in 1985. IN 1984 it went out on Saturday afternoons, around 5.05
Formost Fraggle rock hunter for the tapes has the broadcast dates for mid week in 1985: http://www.nightshade.org.uk/fraggleuk.html

to help prove it here is some clips from 6 march 1985:





By late 1987 it had moved to Sunday mornings.

Hey, did you pull those listings off a website 623058 or do you keep old copies of listings magazines?

Indeed, it was criminal to dedicate so much time to the dire rip off that was Ministry of Mayhem.

There should have talked about Whats up Doc, the first ITV sat show to beat the BBC! since Tiswas.

Let's hope some ITV exec got as nostalgic as we all did about it and puts some money CITV's way to allow them to produce more than just new pre-school type programmes. I suspect if they started producing a few shows for older children they'd soon find themselves able to recoup the costs through international sales.

Didn't realise either that How 2 started life as How - always assumed it was "How 2" as in "How to".

Aye, I remember the original How (made by Southern TV) and Fred Deinage was the only presenter to be in both versions.


Re: Fraggle Rock, thanks for posting that schedule - to be fair possibly due to nostalgia tinted spectacles I still cannot remember Fragggle Rock being on during the week and I was more of a Children's ITV watcher than Children's BBC. Only things I used to watch on BBC were Grange Hill and the other drama's. I also cannot remember Children's BBC being on until 6pm (as seen in the schedule)!!!

Thanks!

Indeed, the original How ended when Southern TV did in 1981, it was rebooted in 1990 by TVS, and then by Scottish TV (Enterprises), I used to love How 2, by coincidence this was uploaded to YouTube last night, with clips from this episode being shown on the documentary....



I remember in the late 1990s when they posted their whole website and pages on the end credits, so if you didn't have Internet access you could get your video on record and pause your way through.... how times change.

Several programmes did that in the 90's, they were usually called Databursts. In fact I think there was a comedy show that used them too, Fist of Fun maybe?

Ah yes - I thought that was a great idea!

Reason why it was not picked up by TVS as there did not want to take on anything from Southern,

I do believe ALL of how 2 belong to STV, from the 3rd series where it become part of STV, along with many of kids programmes, just like Rupert ( 1st series was also TVS, but now in the hands of STV.



The deal never did included Art attack I believe


I take it the copyright holders were Neil before he sold it off? Im lead to believe Disney does not control the original series, SO WHO DOES? Disney does hold the format rights.

wee gem from Series 1 of HOW

That was when the lady who used to run Nickelodeon at the time, Janie Grace, took over the helm and bought the idea direct from the Nickelodeon schedules. The only problem was it worked fine on Nickelodeon as the schedule was built around mostly imports and the back catalog of its American cousin, with series lengths that went on practically forever and were suited to high rotation (most old-school Nicktoons have a run of at least 50 episodes). Most of not all CITV series were 13 episodes in length and a show only lasted two and a half weeks.

The policy lasted 18 months according to The Guardian: