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GMTV axe kids wraparound weekend shows.

(October 2004)

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john04
Due to financial concerns and the need to streamline output, Diggin’ It and Up on the Roof will be dropped.
However, GMTV have renewed their output deal with Disney, and a raft of new shows will arrive in February 2005, as detailed here.
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tvguy
Shame.I like diggit out of all of them but diggin' it,like TSS,is great at sketches!
So will they just be OOV or have presenters then?It could be like studio disney or Nick L8R where it dosen't say in the TV books but there's a name for it on the TV.
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fanoftv
I doubt even GMTV have thought what they're going to do yet. But they will most probably just create their own morning show that may go back to a DiGGiT route of being interactive rather than having sketches.

Though who knows they may follow CiTV and go out of vision with Disney programmes coming in.

Or perhaps they can bring back Mr Motivator and kids@gmtv!
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sparks78
Looks like they have... Job advert from this week's Broadcast

Quote:
Position Producers & Co-ordinator
Category Producer/Director
Salary On Application
Location
Company Name GMTV
Contact
Reference
Address
Postcode
Telephone
Fax
Email kidsjobs@gm.tv
Website
Date Posted 13 Oct 2004
Deadline 22 Oct 2004
Job Summary Producers & Co-ordinator GMTV Kids

Are you fluent in Toon-ish? Maybe speak "Sponge"? An anime fan, but partial to gunge?

GMTV seeks THREE experienced Producers with a fascination for animation to work in the children's department.
Description Two successful candidates will lead small teams producing dynamic on-air continuity between cartoons, with in-vision presenters and comedy interstitials. The third will specialise in promos and web-site content.

Ideal candidates should be bursting with creative ideas and enthusiasm to create unique, stimulating television for 0-12yr olds.

Previous experience writing witty links and/or promos is essential. You must also be able to direct psc shoots and edits. Bonus points if you can studio direct.

We also need an experienced Co-ordinator to oversee complex pre-record, editing and animation schedules as well as keeping a firm grip on costs.

For more detailed job descriptions, salaries and application details, please email kidsjobs@gm.tv

Closing date for CVs - Friday 22 October. Interviews - Wed 27th /Thurs 28th October. New posts to commence late November.

GMTV is committed to equal opportunities and positively welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
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dbl
All I can say is that since they rebranded DIGIT to diggin' it it went down hill. The original presenters Fearne and Des had the right fomula to DIGIT.
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gottago
It's quite a shame they're dropping it. I can just about remember the Disney Club which had loads of kids presenting. Then that changed into Diggit. Remember Jasper the dog? And I remember the adverts they used to have telling you that the prizes are real and you can win them! They had shots of kids playing round with the prizes they won. I remember one of them won a frog umbrella and they were so "happy" with it! And Diggit had those huuuuuge inflatable sofas. Yep, we all obsesed with inflatables! And remember the kids that wrote in saying "I want to be a phone operater! And then 3 of them would sit in this weird thing answering everyone's calls!

But now GMTV Kids is going to be just as dead as CITV.
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james2001 Founding member
gottago posted:
It's quite a shame they're dropping it. I can just about remember the Disney Club which had loads of kids presenting. Then that changed into Diggit.


No it didn't. Diggit was running before The Disney Club ended.
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nwtv2003
It was always more than Diggit, there was as you mentioned The Disney Club which was there before 1993 I believe, but when GMTV arrived it bigger, as it started from 8.30am and went on until 10.15am with the lovely Andrea Boardman and usually Richard Orford. But anyway it goes back donkeys years now as there was always seperate stuff at the weekends on GMTV, I seem to remember there was stuff like Disney Adventures and there was some other Saturday one in between, but after the Disney Club had ended it morphed into Roadhog which then changed into Diggit with Paul or "Des" as he was known and Fearne Cotton, which I believe came on air in 1998.

Though the only good thing at last is that they are finally putting all of the main GMTV Kids output into one brand, as it usually Disney this.....GMTV That......The Mighty Morphin Rangers Power Hour...Up on the Roof etc
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james2001 Founding member
nwtv2003 posted:
but after the Disney Club had ended it morphed into Roadhog which then changed into Diggit with Paul or "Des" as he was known and Fearne Cotton, which I believe came on air in 1998.


No! Both Roadhog & Disney Club were running at the same time as Diggit! Diggit started before the Disney Club finished.
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Marky
BRILLIANT - Time to bring back ' The Wide Awake Club & Wacaday '.
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Square Eyes Founding member
Marky posted:
BRILLIANT - Time to bring back ' The Wide Awake Club & Wacaday '.


I couldn't agree more with you, GMTV's kids programmes are a shambles, wall to wall braindead cartoons. Something like The Wide Awake Club would just be too much effort for GMTV.
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nwtv2003
james2001 posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
but after the Disney Club had ended it morphed into Roadhog which then changed into Diggit with Paul or "Des" as he was known and Fearne Cotton, which I believe came on air in 1998.


No! Both Roadhog & Disney Club were running at the same time as Diggit! Diggit started before the Disney Club finished.


Seriously?!? I remember that Roadhog was now that I come to think of it, but for Diggit I always assumed that replaced The Disney Club altogether, but by that time the GMTV Kids slot as I would put it was fully off air by 9.25am rather than 10.15am.

One question though, am I thinking this but wasn't The Disney Club made by Scottish Television?

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