The CBBC Thread

It is very true if you think of it like that. But it now feels like they are talking down to children, it's not the content that I have a problem with, but I'm sure that it was handled better back when i was a kid, but I agree, I'm not a kid anymore.

As for Ed & Oucho, they are indeed a fantastic pairing, I love their counting down to halloween. They're doing a fantastic job, especially if they don't have that much budget, love the chats between them, and I love the idea of shredding peoples artwork. Genius, maybe not for the crying children, though i suppose it's something to aim for as they can't get any prizes.

Competitions are supposed to be coming back in november aren't they? I wonder if TMi will go back to the old phone-in competitions when they're phased in?

Oooh, I would love to see a return of surely they can't make a game out of that and loot machine, the only problem is, who would rummage? Unless they keep the TMiers and use them and the guests, after all they need them for ' ' (how do you put the game where the name is a sound effect on here?), and call yourself a friend.

I actually don't think that the studio is as much of a problem as I thought it would be. They could just do with fusing this year and last year together when/if competitions return.
I'd also like to see the return of the post section, and if not the china town challenge, then surely they could have a forfeit for the person who gets the least amount of votes whilst the show is on the air?

And as I've said I would prefer it to be on air from 10am and run up to sportsround, and have it preceeded by Hider In The House at 9 (maybe even have them come up at 9 and introduce hider in the house), so then l'd have TMi run until 11.45, sportsround and then have that leading into an afternoon of switch rather than just a couple of hours as the other channels lead into prime time saturday night programming.

Where did you hear that competitions are coming back in november?

And for TMi, the loot machine game could come from somewhere in london (anywhere really) and an extra presenter like Ed off CBBC there. Or each week one of the TMi presenters could go around BBC tv centre looking for anyone to play loot machine and whilst there waiting Hedz or TWF could come on then by the end the presenter has found 3 people or they could just already have them ready.

How much I laughed when I saw that whilst flicking through!

They shouldn't cry anyway; they wouln't be sent back in the first place, and in any case, I think it was made clear that they would be shredded.

I'm sure there will be a few new features coming to CBBC its self soon.
So Chin Up.

Or rather because of the obesity crisis, we'll be shown 39 out of the 40 Come Outside episodes (crisps is never shown) and it cropped from 4:3 to either 14:9 or 16:9

Is that some sort of clue? Chin up?

As for TMi, I suppose that could be a way to do it by using TV Centre as they used to when doing the lead ups for the Blobby game on Live & Kicking. It would be good for them to use TVC more. Last series was just so creative, they're still good, but theres a lot less than the previous series, am I the only one who misses Ed & Helen too?

One of my favourite moments came a couple of weeks ago when (with a piano in the studio) Sam (and later joined by Mark) mimed along to the title tune of Cheers.

Mark said in a webchat a few weeks ago that Ed and Helen are still there.

I do miss crew interaction, now all you hear is them cheering behind the camera.

He just needed to say "dying from AIDS" that's all. I had heard of it when I was 11 and it was rather difficult not to.


Have you considered that it just happened to be a loose quote I picked up when changing channels, and that I may not have set out to watch BP? Otherwise yes you are having a go, and mind your own.

I'm sorry Simon just because you had heard of something when you were 11 doesn't mean that the children of today have. As you say it was difficult not to know of AIDS when you were younger, I'm not so sure that is the case now.

Anyway is it really worth arguing over a descriptive quote on a children's TV show?

All I'm saying is that "back then" programmes like Newsround and BP treated their audience with more intelligence than they did now. It is fair to say that at 10-11 I had a reasonable grasp of what was going on in the world but in the John Craven days Newsround didn't lamely wrap things up in cotton wool as its does now. If there was a story about AIDS it was assumed that the audience would have known what AIDS was. Foot-and-mouth is another example - Newsround again treated its viewers as if they had no idea what the virus was, referring to it as "a dangerous disease". After the events of 2001 it's difficult to imagine that anyone hasn't heard of foot-and-mouth.

In its heyday the only real difference between Newsround and the "adult" news was perhaps the material reported on. Oh, and that John didn't wear a jacket. Otherwise nothing was sugar-coated and it was very matter-of-fact (and I base that on the archive Newsround footage I have sifted through for the Ark).