I remember Andrea, wasn't she scottish? I thought she was allright - not that special, but ok.
Ministry of Mayhem just bores me now, I haven't really been watching it. I think All Grown Up! is a turn off for me. Everytime I switch on Nickelodeon, there it is!
fanoftv - sorry to hear that. My life seems like such a soap in the past few years. When something bad happens, we get over it and then its ok for awhile, but bang comes another problem.
Fans of CiTV presentation will be interested to know that I have found a whole load of of archive CiTV presentation on one of my tapes It's all watchable but not very good quality, think my aerial was crap at the time
Who remembers Andrea? She left CiTV in mid 2000 and features on some of the footage I found which shows how old it is. Most of it seems to be the CiTV presentation wrapping around the first series of My Parents Are Aliens - back in the days when 4:3 programmes actually went out as 4:3, as was S1 of MPAA. Also found a copy of one of the episodes of the final series of Children's Ward too
I might dig it out and do some screengrabs for the thread
I remember when CITV (or Childrens ITV) first started in 1983. I believe it was networked to all regions from Central in Birmingham. In the early days they left the ITV station frontcaps on the shows, but this was dropped long before ITV dumped then, as it evidently looked too messy.
They had a different presenter each calendar month in those days, although all links appeared to have been pre-recorded. The first ever being Matthew Kelly in January 1983. Other early prsenters included Derek Griffiths (March 1983), Charlotte Coleman as Marmalade Atkins (April 1983), David 'Shades' Rappaport, Carole Lee Scott as Grotbags, and many more who I can't rememeber just now. Can anyone help in identifying other early presenters?
Going back even further, ITV used to call their afternoon children's hour "Watch It!' - and a ident would normally play at the opening and closing of the hour - depending on the ITV region. All presentation was regionally based though.
Andrea was English, and presented from Boxing Day 1999 (first day after being revealed along with Tom as a Christmas present on Christmas Eve), until start of 2001.
New presenters Leah, David & Leigh came along in September 2001, Tom and Dannielle had gone by December 2001 (though no official announcement was ever made), Stephen left March 2002, Leigh & David left Christmas 2002, Tim came in January 2003, left June 2003, Michael & Leah left in December 2003, Andy joined in Janaury 2004, with Laura joining in March. And that's every one since Stephen & Dannielle started in May 1998.
Yeah James, I remember reading an article about Michael being on the streets and going to film premieres, etc. It could be so much better if in a way they didn't put the effort in. If they didn't put so much effort into writing full parts of the script, just created an running order and put effort into writing sketches. I'm sure that the presenters can easily come up with a sentance to introduce all grown up.
Or create funy songs and sketches so that the show can be written. At the moment, I think the only bits that aren't written are when doing cakey sk8 (during the main section), and in the post room.
This Saturday come in' up is going to be a big tester for MOM yet will they get people or willl everyone go to the unlive show on BBC one?
I hope MOM gets all the viewers!
I'd say its the following week that matters more, people will always tune into a new show for the first week, the question is will they switch back to MOM?
I say they would like live more but CBBC1 viewers love seeing two people shouting bogies out loud so I say they might move over. I love in' the MOM adverts.
I saw a very good one after the ITV Evening News, featuring Michael, Holly and Stephen being in places of history holding up slides that have 'MOM' on them, ie there was one where they were on the moon in 1969, can't remember the other bits, other than:
MoM was much better than BBc1's offerings by far. I'm not sure at all what that mysti show was about- terrible (first thing they need to do with that- get rid of the fimic effect!).
For a moment I thought we was going to see the return of the full titles this morning on MoM but they've cut them down even more. It started from the lines they cut out recently, then it jumped to the main opening theme but they cut the line "Non-stop, punk rock Hurricane AM".
As I said in the Saturday Show thread, I don't think the Saturday Show was that bad, the mysti show was god damm awful for a Saturday Morning, perhaps on a Saturday afternoon on the CBBC channel, but on a saturday morning? I can't see the logic in it myself.
As for MoM, I'm sure I noted about the new trailer on the last page or the one before.
It features them Spreading the word;
on the moon,
on one of the bugs on Jordon's face on IACGMOOH,
on the royal balconey of Buckingham Palace with the Royal Family overlooking the crowds (I think from the queens golden jubilee)
and in the crowd at the Rugby World Cup Final after Johnny Wilkinson's kick (that supposed to hit Michael in the face).
It's quite clever as they're spreading the word, that MoM's the word.
As for this mornings show. The same as always really. But it was better than TSS, if only they updated the show a bit, and changed a few ideas.
Did I miss it, or did the Spellminator not actually appear?
Maybe someone's reading this, hopefully!
The Doctor was as funny as ever today, and I liked the saxaphone made out of wood in the post room, if only they could do it on the big sofa in the main studio though, it seems a little enclosed.
They could do with a new game, or a couple, if not a really big gameshow type game, and a main sketch to end the show, well before the song anyway.
They also had another new version of the titles today, it had half of the verse and half of the chorus. It went:
'Woke up, Same clothes, from last night or the night before.
Smashed up my alarm clock, but it's still ringing on my bedroom floor.
Get Up, Join in, It's time to pump up the volume!
Wake Up It's The ministry of mayhem (ministry of mayhem)
Dogs are Barking, Neighbours Howling "We can't hear a thing!"
Wake Up it's the Ministry of Mayhem, ahey, ahey a here we go a
NA NA NA, NA NA NA OOOH, NA NA NA, NA NA NA, OOOH (here's whats on the ministry this morning).'
But, as I watched it back, one thing I have noticed is that for the first time, everyone is doing the same dance all together, it looks so good (audience and all!), it must be the dream of the choreographer who created it, or the producer, whoever did!
The Ray thing was good too. If only they could drop either all grown up or spongebob, they could do with the extra time!
It was an odd mix, I thing they should stick to the first mix (with the added plane noise so that it disguises the join).
As I said in the Saturday Show thread, I don't think the Saturday Show was that bad, the mysti show was god damm awful for a Saturday Morning, perhaps on a Saturday afternoon on the CBBC channel, but on a saturday morning? I can't see the logic in it myself.
As for MoM, I'm sure I noted about the new trailer on the last page or the one before.
It features them Spreading the word;
on the moon,
on one of the bugs on Jordon's face on IACGMOOH,
on the royal balconey of Buckingham Palace with the Royal Family overlooking the crowds (I think from the queens golden jubilee)
and in the crowd at the Rugby World Cup Final after Johnny Wilkinson's kick (that supposed to hit Michael in the face).
It's quite clever as they're spreading the word, that MoM's the word.
As for this mornings show. The same as always really. But it was better than TSS, if only they updated the show a bit, and changed a few ideas.
Did I miss it, or did the Spellminator not actually appear?
Maybe someone's reading this, hopefully!
The Doctor was as funny as ever today, and I liked the saxaphone made out of wood in the post room, if only they could do it on the big sofa in the main studio though, it seems a little enclosed.
They could do with a new game, or a couple, if not a really big gameshow type game, and a main sketch to end the show, well before the song anyway.
They also had another new version of the titles today, it had half of the verse and half of the chorus. It went:
'Woke up, Same clothes, from last night or the night before.
Smashed up my alarm clock, but it's still ringing on my bedroom floor.
Get Up, Join in, It's time to pump up the volume!
Wake Up It's The ministry of mayhem (ministry of mayhem)
Dogs are Barking, Neighbours Howling "We can't hear a thing!"
Wake Up it's the Ministry of Mayhem, ahey, ahey a here we go a
NA NA NA, NA NA NA OOOH, NA NA NA, NA NA NA, OOOH (here's whats on the ministry this morning).'
But, as I watched it back, one thing I have noticed is that for the first time, everyone is doing the same dance all together, it looks so good (audience and all!), it must be the dream of the choreographer who created it, or the producer, whoever did!
The Ray thing was good too. If only they could drop either all grown up or spongebob, they could do with the extra time!
It was an odd mix, I thing they should stick to the first mix (with the added plane noise so that it disguises the join).
It's all watchable but not very good quality, think my aerial was crap at the time 
