I think Chris and London are the worst offenders really...Ed & Oucho's humour was often quite sophisticated, and Iain & Hacker have their moments. Those two really don't seem to have a lot going for them, I'm glad that kid pointed out the "silly sketches" as they're often the most cringey bit.
Its unfair to pin the blame on to any particular presenter because they're just doing their job and behaving how they producers want them to. It would be fairer to criticise them if they were allowed to present as themselves.
Its unfair to pin the blame on to any particular presenter because they're just doing their job and behaving how they producers want them to. It would be fairer to criticise them if they were allowed to present as themselves.
I agree, people say that Iain and London may not be "good presenters" but the producers see the 1000's of emails sent in by children everyday and if they weren't happy with them, they'd be gone.
It was great between 2002 and 2007, Ed was great but started the trend of the presenters becoming a bit more patronising and look what we've got now. What happened to the purpose built studio? It's now gone back to the broom cupboard, just a bit bigger!
I think the problem CBBC has is catering too much for the lower half of their age group. 8 year olds will happily watch programmes with 12 year olds in - it's aspirational to be a bit older and cool. 12 year olds however will not watch programmes with 8 year olds in.
By the same argument, 8 year olds will happily watch more 'serious', trendy presenters being 'cool' in a studio - but the older kids are less enthused by 'babyish' sketches in the CBBC office.
Things have changed since the CBBC channel first launched, and an enormous studio with 15 presenters on a rota just isn't viable anymore. We're lucky there's invision continuity at all, because if the BBC needed to shave a few million from the CBBC budget, it'd be the first thing to go.
I actually find some of the sketches hilarious. At times, it reminds me a lot of SMTV Live.
Hmmm. Well, I guess we're talking about the 15-months immediately before a rebrand.
Back then, CiTV was still a major player, with a studio and new programming, aswell as the ever-popular SMTV:Live. It just seemed that after the bugs arrived at CBBC they stopped wanting to compete, and at that point the writing was on the wall.
