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What everybody thinks about children’s tv shows/channels (February 2019)

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GE
thegeek Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
thegeek posted:
Alexander Armstrong and Lorraine Kelly both narrate cartoons too.
indeed - the aforementioned Hey Duggee and he's also the voice of Danger Mouse, where the narrator is (Come Dine With Me's) Dave Lamb. Lauren Laverne narrates Tee and Mo.

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Also the music in Catie's Amazing Machines sounds so much like it's in the style of The Darkness is because it *is* by The Darkness.

That's a odd programme....

It's basically Toddler Top Gear presented by a very over enthusiastic, young, female rally driver. The whole thing is just her showing us a vehicle, then driving the vehicle while going 'woooowwww this is amazing'
And then a bit of stock footage of another machine, and then she tries another. I'm not knocking it: my daughter loves it, and it's good having a female presenter to show that big machines aren't just for boys.
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We still watch linear kids tv. My eldest is 4 and tends to use a tablet to watch stuff, mainly YouTube Kids. Which isn't as bad as it sounds as he seems to watch lots of stuff about colours and letters and numbers, of his own accord. But we'll still have Cbeebies on for him and his younger sibling partially as a background but also it's just easier.

I'm a little nervous about what's on YouTube - even the YouTube Kids app - after reading about the weird stuff out there. Curated stuff is good.
IS
Inspector Sands
thegeek posted:
] indeed - the aforementioned Hey Duggee and he's also the voice of Danger Mouse, where the narrator is (Come Dine With Me's) Dave Lamb. Lauren Laverne narrates Tee and Mo.

Yes, in fact she sings some of the Tee and Mo songs.

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I'm a little nervous about what's on YouTube - even the YouTube Kids app - after reading about the weird stuff out there. Curated stuff is good.

Yes, it's very variable. Lots of odd long videos of things being made different colours ('green coloured car, red coloured car'.....) and home made Peppa Pig and Thomas the Tank videos. You have to keep your eye, or ear on what he's watching and so far it's been fine, the only thing we've really had to block are foreign language, mainly Russian versions of cartoons like Thomas, mainly because he's learning to talk and it will confuse him. What is interesting is how he finds videos without being able to search, just using the suggestions.

One thing that is quite good on YouTube Kids is Blippi, who is a bit like a more immature Timmy Mallet type character. Although: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/blippi-youtube-kids-star-harlem-shake-poop
RI
Riaz
623058 posted:
Tv companies give up on 11 -18 olds back in the 90s. Thus these people have been left behide and gone to other portals for there entertainment.

Why would these viewers come back to tv now? This is part of the reason tv is having problems now, and its thier own fault for not caterting for certain demographics and plugging the gap.


I believe it had something to do with the rise in popularity of game consoles along with an assumption by BBC and ITV companies that satellite and cable channels will better provide for this audience. This was before the internet became mainstream.

The younger generation now thinks of a TV as a machine connected to a game console or the internet. There have been cases of kids querying what that strange socket is for on the back of a TV where the aerial plugs into.
MA
Markymark
Riaz posted:


The younger generation now thinks of a TV as a machine connected to a game console or the internet. There have been cases of kids querying what that strange socket is for on the back of a TV where the aerial plugs into.


Take a new telly out of a box, and the first thing it often wants to see is a network and the internet, rather than a UHF aerial signal. Sign of the times I’m afraid
VM
VMPhil
Markymark posted:
Riaz posted:


The younger generation now thinks of a TV as a machine connected to a game console or the internet. There have been cases of kids querying what that strange socket is for on the back of a TV where the aerial plugs into.


Take a new telly out of a box, and the first thing it often wants to see is a network and the internet, rather than a UHF aerial signal. Sign of the times I’m afraid

That's mainly because the manufacturer wants to track as much information about what you watch as they possibly can
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Markymark
VMPhil posted:
Markymark posted:
Riaz posted:


The younger generation now thinks of a TV as a machine connected to a game console or the internet. There have been cases of kids querying what that strange socket is for on the back of a TV where the aerial plugs into.


Take a new telly out of a box, and the first thing it often wants to see is a network and the internet, rather than a UHF aerial signal. Sign of the times I’m afraid

That's mainly because the manufacturer wants to track as much information about what you watch as they possibly can



Goodness knows what anyone would make of my viewing habits !
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Markymark posted:
VMPhil posted:
Markymark posted:

Take a new telly out of a box, and the first thing it often wants to see is a network and the internet, rather than a UHF aerial signal. Sign of the times I’m afraid

That's mainly because the manufacturer wants to track as much information about what you watch as they possibly can



Goodness knows what anyone would make of my viewing habits !


If you want to watch "Giant Tits R Us" after midnight, that's up to you Wink
MA
Markymark
Neil Jones posted:
Markymark posted:
VMPhil posted:
That's mainly because the manufacturer wants to track as much information about what you watch as they possibly can



Goodness knows what anyone would make of my viewing habits !


If you want to watch "Giant Tits R Us" after midnight, that's up to you Wink


How did you manage to hack in ?
GE
thegeek Founding member
Neil Jones posted:
Markymark posted:
VMPhil posted:
That's mainly because the manufacturer wants to track as much information about what you watch as they possibly can



Goodness knows what anyone would make of my viewing habits !


If you want to watch "Giant Tits R Us" after midnight, that's up to you Wink

Who could have predicted what a success those late night ornithology channels would be.
JA
james-2001
To be fair, we haven't had anything plugged into the UHF socket on our TV in the living room for nearly 20 years either. Because it's all been done via a box plugged in through Scart or HDMI instead.
JA
james-2001
Neil Jones posted:
If you want to watch "Giant Tits R Us" after midnight, that's up to you Wink


Ahh, you're watching the news channels when they airing programmes about Brexit Wink
RI
Riaz
Neil Jones posted:
I do wonder how long it can be before CBBC drops in-vision continuity altogether - looking from a point of view of the rest of the market it could be seen as anachronistic - after all that form of presentation for children was all the rage in the 80s, 90s and to an extent in the 2000's before it suddenly died off on CITV when they moved to Manchester from Birmingham.


There is truth to what you say. Continuity worked well when there were children's programme blocks in the afternoon and Saturday mornings on BBC1 and ITV1 but once satellite channels started showing children's programmes all day and night then it became more difficult, and less cost effective, to incorporate continuity.

In the YouTube domain, continuity does not really exist.

I definitely think that continuity was welcome by kids back in the 1980s, but I'm not certain that many kids nowadays want it back.

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