BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One Blue Peter - home to four-legged rascal Shep, the coat-hanger advent crown and school-boy favourite Janet Ellis, is being turfed out of its home on BBC One. The 54-year-old show that gave kids the drama of hibernating tortoises, out-of-control baby elephants and, yes, Janet Ellis, will be shoved into the back end of Freeview. …
Um, really?
Are you forgetting Duncan Dares?
And even he pales compared to Helen Skelton who was the first person to canoe the length of the Amazon and who has walked, kite-skiied, and cycled to the South Pole......
And she's a DORIS!!
And she's tightrope walked between the chimneys of Battersea power station!!!
AND she's cute!!!
I'm off for a lie down in a darkened room with a nice cup of tea. :-/
Divine being because that's what she is. :-)
They ask these fellas:
http://www.barb.co.uk/
"Viewing estimates are obtained from a panel of television owning households representing the viewing behaviour of the 26+ million households within the UK. The reporting panel of 5,100 homes is selected to be representative of each ITV and BBC region. The service covers viewing within private households only."
So they take their measurements and multiply by 463 or thereabouts to get "number of homes watching programme X".
Then the other widgets BARB dish out come into play:
"When a household agrees to join the panel their television sets, PVRs, VCRs etc. are electronically monitored by a meter. Each TV in a home is connected to its own meter which holds an electronic record for the set. The meter is a small box which is put close to each television set and connected to it. The meter automatically identifies and collects information about the channel that the panel member is viewing.
All panel household residents and their guests register their presence when in a room with a television set on. Each individual does this by pressing a button allocated to them on the peoplemeter handset. The metering system monitors all registrations made by each individual for each television in the home."
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This is about removing all kids shows from the main channels and putting them on CBBC.
Om CBBC repeat fees and certain rights fees are cheaper hence saving the kids department money. Also presumably the gap on BBC1 and 2 will be filled with the cheapest thing possible.
Well not the cheapest thing possible as that would be Pages From Ceefax which I would welcome!
The BBC has been tightening budgets, so cost savings would be welcome but this is more to do with an ongoing trend in children’s television – or rather, how the demographic watching has changed. Less children are watching after-school television and the BBC thinks it can engage with younger viewers by dedicated digital channels.
What was being touted a few years back was to have CBebbies for pre-schoolers, CBBC for primary school-age children and a brand new digital channel targeting older children. The BBC gave up thinking that older children will be attracted to CBBC years ago and it was a matter of time before all after-school children’s television (or children’s television full-stop) would be farmed out to dedicated channels.
For a long time now, whenever 12-18 years are surveyed about their favourites shows, children’s shows aren’t mentioned – e.g. soaps, X-Factor, The Simpsons are far more popular. This trend was reflected in a remark when the Beeb cancelled Grange Hill - a corporation suit commented that a recent storyline involving someone to drive was something that the show’s main audience couldn’t relate to, as they were way too young. This was happening way before iPlayer etc. – the simple fact was that older children were preferring television that isn’t aimed at ‘them’'.
The BBC has been very worried by this trend – various research has shown that young people don’t hold the Beeb in particular high esteem. For example, relatively few shows that young people list as their faves (as above) are shown on the BBC – more worringly, they see the Beeb as ‘just’ a broadcaster. The fear that younger generations of media consumers are growing up with very little brand loyalty to the BBC is a very real one for the corporation.
@"relatively few shows that young people list as their faves"
When I was a kid the BBC was fun and entertaining and even interesting at times and yes, dare I say it, even at times educational. Now its reality TV, reality TV and more bloody reality TV, just like all the other channels.
Look at what we have lost. I still (to this day) love watching cartoons, yet you can hardly ever see any new cartoons on TV anymore. So no wonder then, that the UK cartoon making industry is going out of business. They can't get on TV any more. I can also count dozens of sitcoms and series I loved watching in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Yet now I can't find almost anything like that these days. I also loved watching many scientific documentaries on the BBC, yet channel 4 has more science than BBC 4 these days and what documentaries we have left are unfortunately all too often dumbed down these days. That's just a few examples I can give. Genre after genre of TV shows of all kinds are being killed off to be replaced with yet more reality bloody TV.
Television is increasingly playing to (and dumbed down to) the Lowest Common Denominator these days. If they wipe out almost everything other than reality TV, is there any wonder more and more people are loosing interest in the majority of Television these days. Yet the bloody minded TV executives still refuse to listen. They are determined that ever more reality TV is the answer. They don't want to listen. :(
I know I've become older (and hopefully wiser) but I can't believe that people in TV land (especially presenters) have become so much dumber and more superficial. (Is it me; is it?).
I can remember when Horizon and similar programs were fascinationg to watch and were produced as an educational and informative product. Now, when I watch them, I almost feel embarassed for them as I see how they try to present and explain things in a way that makes me cringe ...(ok, I'll stop typing now, before I unleash a torrent of bile on you all)
AC: "To save money they could re-run the episodes with Janet Ellis in again - on the late-night channel fnar fnar"
Although Lesley Judd was before my time, one has to wonder about the effect of this clip on any male viewers hitting adolescence back in those pre-Internet-porn-on-tap days:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hiGhJv2oo&feature=fvst
(Yeah, it's the bloody Blue Peter title sequence, so it must surely be SFW?!)
Willing to bet this clip was mentally replayed (*) over and over to the point of imprinting during, er, recreational solitude by more than one horribly frustrated 13-year-old . :-O
(*) Mentally as hardly anyone (except very well-off tossers) would have had a video recorder back then.
The BBC's Have Your Say forum is awash with yards of debate about this. Why?
A programme or two gets moved from one channel to another.
After the digital switchover is complete, everyone who has access to BBC1 and BBC2 will also have access to CBeebies and CBBC. Nobody has lost anything.
What am I missing, here?
Someone explain.
Please type slowly as I can't read very fast.
But what about the drunken students, heading back home after a hard afternoon at the pub.
Easy to remember the number for BBC1, but does anyone, without kids, know the channel number for CBBC (Sky or terrestrial) off the top of their heads? Try doing that through the thick fog of beer. It was hard enough with just 4 channels when I did it.
Won't someone think of the poor students.
The main public channels mostly got rid of their children's programming years ago. It's now, in much worse form, on the combined channel "KIKA".
Actually the main "analogue" channels are barely watchable. They spend great deals of money on banale shows. The "digital" channels however actually seem to try to make good television. They are quite experimental with some horribly bad stuff, and a bit of true gems.
You forgot to lament the current dire crop of wall-to-wall talkshows on the public channels - for those who don't live here, it's sort of like Paxman and Humphries cloning themselves and their guests and invading the evening schedule.
The less said about private TV the better.
Interested in what you think of as gems because from where I sit stuff just seems to be getting worse and worse.
... they're having to cut back on daytime TV and kids' TV is shown in the, er, daytime, why don't they simply drop (say) BBC2 before 7pm and replace it with Cbeebies and get rid of BBC3 or BBC4 at night? There's a complete 24 hour programme stream they'd no longer have to fill (and could presumably rent out or use to increase bit rates on the remaining channels or give to Jeremy Hunt for local TV without the cost of another MUX).
I'd just put CBBC and BBC3 on the same channel, given the former stops at 7pm, just as the latter starts - ditto for CBeebies and BBC4.
That way they'd save by not having to transmit the channel ident on four channels for half the day, when they could use two channels more effectively.
Most kids are watching CBBC or CBeebies anyway, not BBC1. They're looking for their kids programmes there, so it makes sense to shift it. Of more concern is what they decide to replace it with. More of that bald Dom bloke chasing dodgy builders? Or something about antiques, more likely
"* Mum of pop siren Sophie Ellis-Bextor"
And from the linked BBC article...
"Janet left Blue Peter to have her second child. Rumour has it that she was sacked because she wasn't married to the father, but in actual fact it was Janet's decision to leave. The resulting bairn in question also wasn't Sophie Ellis Bextor. "
Now, in situations like these I refer to the always accurate Wikipedia which agrees with el Reg but not the Beeb....
In this confused state I am worried I will lose track of what is up too *Sits on head*
Surely the Beeb wouldnt be wrong?
This is this really worth reporting? Neighbours didn't suffer by being binned and then picked up by 5. This is just a juggling of another out-dated program to an appropriate channel. To be honest if people let nostalgia rather than sense rule then we'd still have 'Why Don't You..?', 'Grandstand' and 'Kickstart' clogging up our screens.
The BBC needs to decide what it actually wants to be, it's not the 1970's it can't be all things to all people any more.
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