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Steve Williams posted:
623058 posted:
I have asked in the other thread and "Steve Williams" was able to shine a bit of light

No, it is my real name.
One of the reasons I never liked CITV as much as CBBC was that they kept chopping and changing, given between 1987 and 1991 they had four different presenters and four different sets, as opposed to the consistency of the Broom Cupboard and the small CBBC family of presenters. The Granger set in 1988 is clearly an attempt to ape the Broom Cupboard. I do remember watching quite a bit of CITV when Granger was in charge, though, having been seduced by Look-In's new season preview.
Anyway, of course Tom Darvill, the CITV presenter from 2000, is dead famous now, though using a different first name.


Oh hes that Tom Darvill,?? I never notice that before Confused You learn something every day.

CITV had issues when Stonewall took over, There had 17 idents in 2 years in use, 89 - 91. with Clive Warren, Jerry Foulkes, Jeanne Downs , Jerry Foulkes and the dog all in use other that periods aswell. of course there had no fixed studio.

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Neil Jones posted:
David posted:
This episode of Rainbow contains some footage of early CITV.


That episode dates from transmission in July 1988.
I notice they then went and revamped the entire Children's ITV service two months later, when Mark Granger took over, making the references dated.

IMDB lists this particular series (Series 17) as having 51 episodes, and it apparently aired near enough every Tuesday. How accurate is that?


Going a little off topic, was Geoffrey chryogenically frozen in 1973 as his fashions and hairstyle never seemed to change from when the show started and Jane from Rod, Jane and Freddie had an early seventies centre parted hairstyle that never changed?
However, Rainbow was part of the very successful 12.00-12.30 children's thread on ITV.

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A good amount of 1988 clips

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A little off-topic but a few days ago I seen Leah Charles on GEMS TV it was nearing the end of the 'auction but it may seem she is returning to british tv?

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