Hey y'all, just thought i'd start a thread on CiTV presentation as the CBBC and Saturday Morning threads have been getting a bit of attention. Anyway, what's your favorite pres era? Mine's personally the 1989-1991 era when it had Jeanne, Scally, Jerry, Clive and Andy Crane on the odd day.
Watch It! -> 1980 (just) - 1983.
Children's ITV -> 1983 - 1998 (but began being referred to as CITV after 1993 but was still branded as "Children's ITV" until 1996)
CiTV - 1998 -> 2006.
CITV ->2006 - present.
Also breaks down as:
1983 & 1984 - spaceship/network centre era. Links pre-recorded.
1987 - Gary Terzza and Debbie Shore era - went fully live for the first time.
1988 - Mark Granger era
1989-1991 - Stonewall era - Scally the Dog et al.
1991 & 1992 - Tommy Boyd/Glenn Kinsey era.
1993 - 1998 - Out of vision era.
1998 - 2006 - Danielle Nicholls & Stephen Mulhern and others. In-vision links scrapped in 2004 and service runs as out-of-vision until 2006.
2006 to date - CITV channel launched in 2006 and service gets rebrand. Main afternoon CITV strand on ITV scrapped in 2007. Channel rebranded in 2009 and 2013. Children's programming on ITV effectively relegated to weekend mornings as a CITV Channel simulcast and very early mornings around Christmas time.
I've always considered this the golden era of CITV:
I think everything was just spot on, it didn't talk down to kids, the graphics were on point, and the programmes weren't too bad either (Bernard's Watch, Zzzap, Art Attack, Worst Witch, Hey Arnold..."
I notice on the video Elliott Henderson Boyle. He'd have been familiar to CITV viewers in 1998/1999 as he was on the Saturday morning show Scratchy & Co alongside Mark Speight, a show that in hindsight looked like a rebadged Max Headroom type production.
Aww loved that era growing up as a kid, brings back memories with the "It's A ---- Kind Of Thing". Got a bit daft when they had all the newbies come in, though the bigger studio was cool.
Be part of it! That's the slogan I remember from that era, which was superior to CBBC in pretty much every way.
Now CITV hardly even exists and CBBC is in a studio with barely enough room to move. How times change!
Nickelodeon also had Nick L8R and Thank Nick It's Friday, and Disney Channel had Studio Disney. CBBC are the only ones left with in vision continuity to their credit.
This was another broadcaster who did the CBeebies/CBBC style split, starting with just one presenter sat on a bean bag with a childish music bed, after two shows, the other presenter appeared and the main service began.
In the list above, you've missed off the very paired back Andy Jaye and Swag Bag era in the last year before IVC was dropped.
Oh and in that clip above, those HTV break bumpers look quite out of place, they should probably have not run ITV regional break bumpers during CITV. I can't remember if this applied in all regions,
Aww loved that era growing up as a kid, brings back memories with the "It's A ---- Kind Of Thing". Got a bit daft when they had all the newbies come in, though the bigger studio was cool.
Including the young male newbie who only lasted a couple of days. Mainly because on his first day Danielle asked him what his favourite CITV programme was and he nervously said 'Live & Kicking' then stunned silence. There was a video of this on Youtube I saw a few years ago but can't seem to find it now.
CBBC are the only ones left with in vision continuity to their credit.
A bit disapointing really, when you think going back to around 2000, everyone except Cartoon Network had IVC (I think even Fox Kids did at one time), and I think Disney still had some live out-of-vision continuity for a while even after dropping IVC. I think Nickelodeon were the ones to keep it on last, I remember they took on Jamie & Anna for a while after they were dropped from Toonattik. I always preffered it myself, much better than just trailers and generic pre-recorded "up next, on later" etc. announcements, which is all the kids channels seem to have now.
