Swap Shop Returning?

I think the major issue would be giving kids names and addresses to total strangers who rang in. (If that is how it used to work - and I think it was)

In the last 15 years or so , even showing kids paintings on air requires you to remove or mask their names and addresses (hence the request to write it on the back not the front...)

Assuming the BBC own the rights to the format - then I suspect that most issues would be towards the BBC arbitrating contracts between two people. (What if the toys swapped don't have CE marks etc.), and privacy issues for kids.

The world has changed - in perception, if not reality - since the 70s.

If it is brought back - and is on Saturday mornings - it'll be interesting in the sense that until now it appeared that TMi is the only show they'd run on Saturday mornings, and only for about four months a year. It'd be nice to have something back for the rest of the time. (although no doubt it'd only be an hour long or something silly like that)

Well the privacy issue is fairly straightforward - instead just send the swap items to the Beeb and the middleman will send them back out to their respective parties.

Yeah, I was thinking along these lines. I'm not sure that I like the idea of Basil Brush presenting, it's a shame that Ed is doing CBBC Continuity as someone with his sort of personality would be great imo.

It is a shame for TMi, as they have had their run and time reduced since last year, more so its the fact that it seems that they are (if rumours are true) willing to put money into saturday morning, but they didn't seem to do it for TMi, it could have worked brilliantly on a bigger scale, though I suppose studio 9 could be to try and recreate the leicester sq idea from series 1.

What’s really great that it’s a return to a live children’s show set in a studio – which we haven’t had for a while.

Will it still be Multi-coloured?

From memory Swap Shop had two swapping methods.

1. There was a list of stuff people had rung in that they wanted to swap, and what they wanted to swap it for. Other people rang in offering to do this. I've always assumed they gave the two people each others phone numbers or addresses. However giving out kids addresses to strangers would not be acceptable in this day and age... E-mail or phone number may be OK.

2. Keith Chegwin used to present OBs from around the UK, where people would bring stuff they wanted to swap, and at the OB Keith would get people up on stage with what they wanted to swap, and match them with other people in the crowd who had stuff they wanted to swap.

The key thing about Swap Shop wasn't really the swapping, it was that kids could ring in, not just to swap stuff, but to ask questions of the guests in the studio, which was really quite radical for the BBC at that time (in fact for telly in general)

Well the privacy issue is fairly straightforward - instead just send the swap items to the Beeb and the middleman will send them back out to their respective parties.