‘Viewers of Final Score seem happy enough to watch other people watching football matches, so we’ll expand the idea to other BBC programmes.’
Posted: Nov 5th, 2010
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‘The whole venture failed to work on so many levels,’ explained Samantha, aged 3. ‘Peppa Pig appears to be a simple enough porcine archetype to mimic. But in fact she is one of the most elusive of all children’s characters to fully inhabit.’
Posted: Oct 16th, 2010
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Bob the Builder was the highest profile casualty this week as children’s TV channel Cbeebies responded to the demands of its aggressively guilt-ridden parent viewers to ditch the glamorisation of working- to lower-middle class jobs in favour of animated characters pursuing careers ‘that make risking negative equity to get in the right school’s catchment area worthwhile’. As part of a new commitment to quality the BBC has cancelled all shows starring members of the construction industry, postal workers, or ‘any job where there’s a chance their children could be unionised’.
Posted: Apr 5th, 2010
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Brian Griffiths, a 32 year old children’s TV presenter, has claimed that his role is insufficiently challenging, and that TV bosses are failing to properly utilise his talents.
‘Honestly, a two-year old could do this stuff,’ he reveals in a soul-baring interview with the Radio Times. ‘I did two seasons at the Leicester Playhouse, and two at the National. People still stop me in the street to comment on my ‘Little Dorrit’, and yet look at me now, leaping up and down alongside some crazy-haired bimbo in yellow dungarees; singing a song about how kangaroos can bounce up and down. Really? They can? No shit!’
Posted: Jan 21st, 2010
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The Government’s education watchdog announced today that it is to investigate the BBC’s flagship children’s channel over claims that it has been childminding the nation’s under eights despite not being registered as a childcare provider.
Posted: Sep 29th, 2009
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