Scrambled! CITV

And sounded like, and had the mannerisms of. I kept expecting him to do a joke about masturbating.

One of the music beds used is Blurred Lines, which is an odd choice for a children's programme. Talking of which, the programme is sponsored by Coco Monkey of Coco Pops fame, he has grown a neck since I last saw him. I thought there were Ofcom rules about promoting junk food on children's television. Do those rules not apply to sponsorship in the same way?

Laura Jackson and Sam Homewood (Iain Lee) seem to be the main presenters, which seems like a good idea as London Hughes is a little on the wacky side and far too shouty. Luke Franks has a jaunty haircut which I really don't think should be encouraged either. Although he did give some good banana storage tips on the episode shown this morning.

Strange to see a programme nowadays that has long opening titles and a sung theme tune. Strange nowadays to see the credits of the programmes within Scrambled! playing out in full without voice over or credit squeeze. I expect this is more a technical limitation than a editorial decision though, they don't seem to know which episode of each programme they are introducing and so make no reference to anything within the programmes.

Overall, I would rate this programme as not terrible. Although, I will probably never watch it again.

Was the sponsorship for the monkey itself as opposed to Coco Pops as a brand? I believe that's why Corrie's sponsored by Compare the Meercat Toys as opposed to the website itself so they can avoid including all the small print in the sponsor stings or something like that.

I thought it was a bit dry but then I am outside of its target age range. Some of it felt a bit forced, but hopefully the presenters will gel more as they get to know each other. It needs a bit of an energy boost I think, in regards to lighting and background music.

As always with this kind of show, I wanted to see more of the presenters having fun and less of the cartoons. I always felt that way with Live and Kicking and SMTV Live too.

Hmm, I saw the opening this morning, and assumed they are going for the younger end of the audience (10-11 and younger). The opening titles basically contain well-worn txt-speak clichés (OMG! gr8, amaze! etc). and the first link today was something like:

A: "Woo, whole day of the weekend left"
B: "Yeah, none of that rubbish Monday malarkey for us!"
A: "Hooray! Another full day of LOLs ahead!"
B: "Proper LOLs!!"

I can't imagine kids over 10 or so would be into this as the cringe factor is just a bit too high (unless the rest of the show is different). If that's the target, and based on it being mostly cartoons, then maybe it is - and that's fine.

The thing with Live & Kicking, SM:TV and their sketches (Trevor and Simon etc) is that they didn't go out of their way to talk down to kids as kids.

Nor did glen Michael from stv and tiswas
A lot of kids hate this type of format.why would anyone like it being talked down to?

The sponsorship was for Coco Pops Croc Prints which appears to be a cereal.

Is cereal "Junk Food", even Coco Pops?

Really? Your slating somebody on the basis of a haircut?

Surely that definition would be determined by the ingredients.

Cocoa is an ingredient, and that would count as junk food, surely? Coco Pops are chocolate Rice Krispies.

I heard this gained bad reviews. Not good for the return of Saturday morning breakfast shows!

If said reviews did not come from kids then said reviewers should shut their jobs