CITV documentary
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As a pure celebration of Children's ITV, I'm not sure that the 20th anniversary Birthday Bash can be surpassed. But an earnest documentary with interviews and behind-the-scenes perspectives in addition to clips will of course be hugely welcome.
This tweet (and the tweets following) from Andy Crane is also interesting. It's good to know that ITV appreciates the value of nostalgia, not just weekend-to-weekend ratings grabbing.
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Not only that, apparently the CITV channel will be showing one or two episodes of Knightmare (alongside other classic shows) during the weekend of 5th-6th January, if this article is reliable! There's a schedule on Digital Spy, though I'm not sure where they've got it from:
Saturday 5th January
9:25am - Fun House
10:45am - Knightmare
11:15am - T Bag
12:00pm - Count Duckula
(Another site also lists Puddle Lane)
3:00pm - Wolf
4:30pm - Children's Ward
5:30pm - Super Gran
Sunday 6th January
9:25am - Fun House
10:45am - Knightmare
12:00pm - Dangermouse
12:40pm - Art Attack
1:30pm - Fraggle Rock
3:00pm - Press Gang
4:30pm - Children's Ward
5:30pm - Spatz
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There's also this article which may be of interest:
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/30yearsofcitv/ep01/default.html
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Get in!!!
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The full schedule has now been posted online, subject to official confirmation:
Saturday 5th January
09:25 - Mike & Angelo
09:50 - Super Gran
10:15 - Wizadora
10:30 - T-Bag
10:50 - Engie Benjy
11:05 - The Raggy Dolls
11:15 - Puddle Lane
11:35 - Count Duckula
12:00 - The Sooty Show
12:25 - Art Attack (1992)
12:40 - The Big Bang
13:00 - Finders Keepers
13:30 - Fun House (1994)
14:00 - Knightmare
14:30 - Fraggle Rock
15:00 - The Worst Witch
15:30 - Woof!
16:00 - Dramarama
16:30 - Press Gang
17:00 - The Tomorrow People
17:30 - Children's Ward (2000)
Sunday 6th January
09:25 - Mike & Angelo
09:50 - Spatz
10:10 - Huxley Pig
10:30 - Rainbow
10:50 - Button Moon
11:05 - The Riddlers
11:15 - Rosie & Jim
11:35 - Dangermouse
12:00 - Sooty & Co
12:25 - How 2
12:40 - Finger Tips
13:00 - Jungle Run
13:30 - Fun House (1995)
14:00 - Knightmare
14:30 - Fraggle Rock
15:00 - My Parents Are Aliens
15:30 - Woof!
16:00 - Dramarama
16:30 - Press Gang
17:00 - The Tomorrow People
17:30 - Children's Ward
The only ones I watched as a kid were Raggy Dolls, Duckula (which I wasn't that keen on), Fraggle Rock (ditto), Rainbow, Button Moon and Dangermouse (wasn't that on the BBC?). Never even heard of some of the others! Will definitely have to record KM and Button Moon though.
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I'm trying very hard not to just start squealing like a giddy schoolgirl.
My Sky+ box is going to be busy. I can see at least 18 shows I want to keep.
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i'm very excitede now aout this, but i'm dissapointed there's no pink wiondmill, croc, refford emu and rod hull, but thanks to youtube theres stuff on there now
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I forgot to mention Mike and Angelo, this is also on which is amazingly good to see, looking forward to sooty as well! Hopefully this wil proove a ratings hit for c s ***** tv as i know refer to it as
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I will admit to experiencing sleepless enthusiasm for the Old Skool Weekend.
I'm wondering if the episodes in question will feature a certain Mr Thorne....
I wondered that too!When I saw '1993', that was my first thought as well. Though those episodes may showcase dungeoneering at its best, for me they don't display Knightmare at its best. I'm sure many will happily disagree, which is fair enough.
As someone who has always found the anti-Fun House sentiments expressed by some Knightmare fans to be tiresome at best, it pleased me greatly to see that Fun House is juxtaposed with Knightmare on both days.
It's a great line-up for fans of Lee Pressman and Grant Cathro, who together wrote four of the programmes featured: Mike & Angelo, T-Bag, Spatz and The Tomorrow People ('90s remake). I'm concerned that the time slot for Spatz is only 20 minutes, as episodes were 5 minutes longer than that. If the Spatz episode is from 1992 then that means it will be from the third and final series which has seven episodes. On my website is a Spatz episode guide where you can find out more about them if you're curious. In one Series 3 episode, Dexter asks his mother to set the VCR for Huxley Pig - and look what's on after Spatz on the Sunday! There's another Series 3 episode that guest-stars David Harewood, who has recently made it big in Homeland, so that would be a good choice.
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This is just fantastic news, it will great to see old classics on TV again from T-Bag(OMG does anyone remember T-Bag)Finders Keepers(Epic show),Orginial Sooty Show,Rainbow, and of course Knightmare, WOW cant wait, hope there's enough room on the Sky Plus for this weekend
And in more good news,I saw a post from Challenge saying they are still working on Knightmare even though we probably thought it was all a bit dead in the water, the reason its taking time is because Challenge is now owned by a different company who used to own them so the rights to Knightmare ran out and they have to go through the whole process again of getting rights,setting up deals etc so apparently it takes time
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