Well we had it coming, Kids tv was better 5 years ago when it was Childrens BBC and the like. Since then CITV got patheticaly pants apart from some good programmes like art attack. CBBC is okay but it's gone on the cheap with the Blue screen studio
I can see it in a few years time, no more Schools Programming and no More Kids tv - or their few and far between in the schedule
I always find the "it doesn't make much money" line a tired excuse. There has been kids TV for years, and now suddenly it's no longer needed???
The rate ITV 1 is going in axing different genres (kids. religious & regional - near enough) I kind of don't get the point of ITV at all, it used to be a channel with a mixture of programmes.
What do they plan to replace these programmes with everytime hmm? Cheap sh*te that's what. Why isn't OFCOM doing it's f***ing job properly
I don't know about the channels, but quite a few people have made quite alot of money out of kids TV production by selling the formats right around the world.
No surprise really - Art Attack, Jungle Run and Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids all axed from CITV...
I'm sure Jungle Run was unofficially dropped ages ago. Its certainly been out of production since before CITV on ITV1 was dropped.
Art Attack did well to last eighteen years but again I'm sure it's been out of production for a while anyway and very old episodes (early 1990s) prop up (or used to prop up) parts of Disney Channel's schedule.
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And also the hours cut at the weekend to allow ITV4 to show live sport in the afternoons (because it has to be on ITV4, can't use ITV2/3 now can they!), meaning CITV ends around 12.30pm.
CITV Channel now only acquires a 0.4% share of viewership, even CBBC Channel gets more (0.5%) as does Disney Channel (0.8% including a 0.3% from the timeshift servuce). CITV still beats Nickelodeon though which looks like its going to buy the entire MPAA back catalogue to prop up its schedule.
So CITV Channel might only run until 12:30pm weekends. How long before it disappears together bearing in mind there's now no original programming and its turning more and more into Jetix every day with increasing reliance on cartoons and dropping pre-school programming into the schedule seemingly randomly?
Where British Childrens programming tended to focus on the more cerebral, educating youngsters as well as entertaining them, Yank Kids' shows are mostly just cheaply-made crappy adverts for equally cheaply-made crappy toys.
Sadly, children won't watch something educational if there is an alternative, and hence British children's programmes have gone down the plughole.
It all started in the 80s with He-Man/Transformers etc etc, and has been downhill ever since.
its all very sad an depressing quite frankly, to think there is no CITV, the last generation grew up with some fantastic programmes, but its all gone now.
Quite sad but all of this is old news. I has been known about for months. I will be glad to see the back of CITV, it has spoiled loads of mornings for me as thee is nothing on.
Saying that, what ever happened to the show they comissioned (sometime ago) with Rod Hull's Son and Emu?
Yes, that's the only recent commission I can think of, Emu was announced in 2006, and is supposed to be 26 episodes for the CITV channel to air in 2007. It's an Initial / Endemol production.
Don't know whether it got pulled or not, but is the last commission I can think of. Not aware there is anything else in the pipeline.
They seem to be meeting their quota with weekend mornings and family films. I take it cooking will be back in the autumn.
Jamie Oliver is to an extent to blame for the state of children's TV. In his good cause of healthy eating for kids he got the ban on junk food during kids programmes. The ban affected the revenue channels could make from children's programming, thus less keen to produce new programmes as they're making less money. The end result can be seen in CiTV, where it's gone from its traditional weekday slot on ITV1 and is now being cut back at the weekends on its own channel.
It wouldn't surprise me if the junk food ban sees the nail on the coffin for a couple of children's channels.
Where British Childrens programming tended to focus on the more cerebral, educating youngsters as well as entertaining them, Yank Kids' shows are mostly just cheaply-made crappy adverts for equally cheaply-made crappy toys.
Sadly, children won't watch something educational if there is an alternative, and hence British children's programmes have gone down the plughole.
It all started in the 80s with He-Man/Transformers etc etc, and has been downhill ever since.
Transformers is good.
I think they should have made their own british adaptation of power rangers because power rangers is an adaptation of super sentai.
