Tom & Jerry repeats on the BBC ended in 2000. Around the time Boomerang UK launched and started showing Tom & Jerry, though that may just be coincidence.
Not really the same programme though is it? Tom & Jerry Kids was part of a wider trend at that time where producers though it would be cool to have kid versions of their hit characters. Muppet Babies was another example. I'm sure Looney Toons did something as well along the same principle.
Shoving on a cartoon feels like one of those things from ye olde times, along with "in the meantime here's some music". A mainstream audience watching BBC1 on a Sunday night probably isn't expecting to watch a random Tom & Jerry cartoon shoved on to fill some time, if anything it would be something like a Coast short these days.
In these more competitive times, showing an unscheduled cartoon is an antiquated idea. I’m the old days viewers would wait, these days they’d be off somewhere else. Every minute of the schedule will be planned these days to the finest detail.
No doubt it would be Coast but actually completely disagree with you about it being an antiquated idea - indeed I think it could very much be of their time in the era when programmers seem far more concerned about social media reaction than ratings. A random classic appearing in the schedules would likely set Twitter alight and people seem to appreciate the odd surprise gem amongst the schedules.
What kind of programmes did lnn made? Stv alway throw out passport clips..... Clips from Scottish passport.... Stv holiday programme...
There was a legendary night when they refused to show an FA Cup game in the midst of their dispute with ITV. Which then went into extra time. Then penalties. Leaving STV throwing on every standby programme they could find to furiously pad until News At Ten came on.
Tom & Jerry repeats on the BBC ended in 2000. Around the time Boomerang UK launched and started showing Tom & Jerry, though that may just be coincidence.
Not really the same programme though is it? Tom & Jerry Kids was part of a wider trend at that time where producers though it would be cool to have kid versions of their hit characters. Muppet Babies was another example. I'm sure Looney Toons did something as well along the same principle.
My point is that each episode was 3 seven minute shorts (and they must have had them individually too, as CBBC on One or Two occasionally used a single short as a filler). No reason BBC 1 couldn't have used them as well.
I believe Kenan & Kel or Chucklevision were the nominated standbys though.
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I miss the Cartoon Network of the mid to late 90s. Boomerang basically took away all classic cartoons when it launched. Both channels are a shell of what they used to be. Sorry to go off-topic a bit.
The only show I remember on The Saturday Show was The Cramp Twins cause they had promos for the show using Eminem music.
I'll post this request in the request forum as well later today but does anyone have clips (or full-ish recordings) of TSS they'd like to share? Although I watched it, I can't remember much about the show and everyone always talks about how it was awful. There's hardly anything on YouTube.