Well yes as part of broadcasting rules ITV need to provide a set amount of certain types of programmes. They wouldn't get rid of it if they could though unlike what all the cynics think as kids advertising, particularly at this time of year probably provides a bit of money.
Notice how even though that CITV ends dead on 5pm, the 5.00-5.03pm adverts are all kids adverts
Well yes as part of broadcasting rules ITV need to provide a set amount of certain types of programmes. They wouldn't get rid of it if they could though unlike what all the cynics think as kids advertising, particularly at this time of year probably provides a bit of money.
Notice how even though that CITV ends dead on 5pm, the 5.00-5.03pm adverts are all kids adverts
It's probably the likely to be the main reason why over Christmas, CiTV is shunted to 9.25am and that it is not given its usual afternoon slot. But I do remember in 1998 when they showed about 90 mins of CiTV on a Christmas Eve afternoon, which is a first.
I was right, according to this page, ITV must "Schedule a minimum of 10 hours children's programming per week"
Yes, and even if they only produced 10 hours, they would attract a lot of criticism from the ITC and other corners.
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But I do remember in 1998 when they showed about 90 mins of CiTV on a Christmas Eve afternoon, which is a first.
For some reason that sticks out in my mind. I seem to remember there was a Cleopatra (remember them?) "Comin' Atcha" Christmas special.
Yeah they had two hours in the morning, ended the morning show, and started the afternoon show with a steel drum orchestra playing christmas songs and a regee rapper. It was to pretend that they had sung all the way from 11am to 2pm.
I was quite clever to put kids shows on, as parents could blonk their kids in front of the telly whilst they wrapped their presents, and finished doing last minute things.
I believe it was the pilot episode of 'comin 'atcha!'. That was a good comedy series, I wonder whatever happened to cleopatra. Unless they had a family feud.
I remember on a show looking behind the scenes of it, it could have been something on T4 like Planet Pop (as it would have been back then), adn they had them on set, and they told the cameras that because it was a kids show they had to have their breasts taped down to make them appear smaller.
Or it could have been a joke on stephen's part to how sm:tv has been moved. It was good today, and I actual enjoyed Jayne presenting. Though seeing Busted perform the same song twice in 90 minutes, it may be two different shows officially, but it was the same set.
It has a live feel, and I can't believe that I was laughing at the ant, dec & cat sketches, even though i've seen them many times before. The Dec's song within the postbag is an excellent piece of postbag history. It's ashame that they dropped the postbag from SM:tv Gold, and late in SM:tv live.
I'm getting a bit sick of eat my goal and wonkey donkey. Why not bring back games that were good, but weren't on for that long, like all hands on dec, though it would have to be all hands on des or something. Men in Splat? I could suggest Splatoon, but that would be wrong, as they could never re do what ant & dec did with that.
I'd like to see new sketches coming forward to, as we did towards the end of sm:tv Live.
What would make an ideal send off for the show would be now that we've seen all of the gold clips, to have as many past presenters doing their own elements of the show. Though it would mostly be Ant, Dec & Cat, as they had the best elements. What they could do is extend the last show to 3 hours, as the saturday after christmas is usually the cd:uk look back over the year, so it could easily be extended. Ant & Dec, would be inbetween jobs, as pop idol would have finshed, and takeaway isn't supposed to start until the new year, unless they have a christmas special!
Or it could have been a joke on stephen's part to how sm:tv has been moved. It was good today, and I actual enjoyed Jayne presenting. Though seeing Busted perform the same song twice in 90 minutes, it may be two different shows officially, but it was the same set.
It has a live feel, and I can't believe that I was laughing at the ant, dec & cat sketches, even though i've seen them many times before. The Dec's song within the postbag is an excellent piece of postbag history.
Indeed that's definally a classic, although it wasn't "Dec's Song" just a 'song in postbag'!
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I'm getting a bit sick of eat my goal and wonkey donkey.
I'm fed up of Eat My Goal and the way every edition is a 'grudgematch special'
A question, when did the SM:TV set change from the silver sofa nobody watched it era to the more famous coloured really popular sofa. I don't think I've ever seen the "Sabrina Poems" before as I didn't watch it in the early days
Yeah. SM:tv Live started as did cd:uk on august 29th 1998. September 4th was the day of changes, to the coloured set, which was modified the following week. The first week, they had a silver SM:tv Live logo behind the sofa, the sofa was on the cd:uk plinth bit, the backdrop to the structure was a big sheet of material that changed colour, as the start of the show was ant & dec on top of the structure, and it was used to create the sillouette. And the challenge ant area didn't have the boards with the circles in front of the silver things, but just the silver things, as the boards with the circle cut outs had the cd:uk logo, they then started to put the SM:tv boards on to cover up the cd:uk.
I wonder if they could change the set back. As I'm sure its the old structure with those shapes stuck on, and the extra tier to the audience.