Presenters return for CBBC's 30th Anniversary

Phillip Schofield, Andi Peters, Zoe Ball, Gordon the Gopher and Ed the Duck are all returning for CBBC Continuity 30th anniversary celebrations on Wednesday September 9th.

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-08-07/phillip-schofield-and-gordon-the-gopher-reunited/

In more detail, a special hour long show called 'Hacker's Birthday Bash - 30 years of Children's BBC' will be broadcast live on CBBC and will have those names as mentioned above as well as Andy Crane, Simon Parkin, Toby Anstis, Kirsten O'Brien, Chris Jarvis, Simeon Courtie, Otis the Aardvark, Dick and Dom and other more recent personalities.

A brand new presenter will also be announced during the show as well as nostalgic clips. It will be coming from MediaCityUK from Salford however it's not known who will be appearing live or who will be appearing in recorded segments.

BBC Media Centre link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/childrens-30-years

I'm glad it looks as if CBBC are putting some sort of effort into their 30th anniversary

I wonder if there's a chance the CBBC channel will do an Old Skool weekend like CiTV did for their recent anniversary?

Well, maybe they'll show a few, but it might be a better fit for the target audience if they showed it on the red button or on BBC4.

Really looking forward to this, but yeah a series of unashamedly geeky and nostalgic programmes on BBC 3 or 4 with broom cupboard continuity, aimed at us rather than having to primarily cater for the kids of today would be great.

BBC3 would probably be the best place for it, though the axing of BBC3 is arguably the removal of the BBC catering for the generations that grew up with Children's BBC and CBBC on BBC1.

Possibly, although those of us who remember Phillip's early days are a little older than BBC3's official target audience.

The classic Blue Peter repeat from the 70s was on BBC Four.

Having just seen the short tease on YouTube which shows the 'classic' neon Children's logo (albeit slightly altered and modernised) does anyone think the anniversary might see the 90s logo reinstated? Personally I loved this logo and think it is timeless unlike the current logo which I feel (although I'm 33 so I'm definitely not the target audience) has rather gone past its use-by date. I would love to see the classic Children's logo reinstated, I remember as a child I loved its versatility in the many different idents and stings.

They might use it for the retro strand, but I think there is a feeling that children don't want to be called children.

The official target audience for CBBC is both older and younger than in our day though, I guess. In fact that's a point - will CBeebies be doing anything as it shares the CBBC heritage and history.

The success of this will be how well they run the gauntlet between appealing to current under 12s and adults in their 20s, 30s, 40s etc. Plus there are many distinct eras of the CBBC in the past.

When CITV did their birthday bash they CITV heyday was probably the era they were actually in at that time. All previous eras were as good or bad as each other.

I would say the CBBC heyday was the 1990s when the broom cupboard had come of age following the early experimental days, and they'd also got more money to do holiday mornings etc. The Andy Crane/Andi Peters era. What will help is that the production team on CBBC were probably kids in this era but the presenters are probably a bit too young, younger than CITV's were for their birthday bash and probably remember the Studio 9 Kirsten o'brien/Dick and Dom pre bungalow era better.

When they did that sketch with Andy Crane (he was/is working at Radio Manchester so was in Salford) I think it was commented on that Iain Stirling was too young to remember Andy's broomcupboard days.