to be angry with Cbeebies?

[LetMeTellYouSomethingMrs]

Months ago Cbeebies came to DS(6) school to film one of their programmes.

After spending a day with yr1 the crew chose about 6 children from each class and when I picked DS up the teacher said he had been chosen to appear on the programme.

I had to sign something to say he was allowed to be on it and he was SO SO excited.

He was filmed the next day.

We had been waiting months for the programme to be aired and finally the 'new series started'

I had been watching all the episodes on iplayer to find his one as he often wasn't here when they were aired on the TV.

I finally found an episode at his school and he wasn't on it :(

There were only 2 children I recognised from his class.

Now I'd understand if the whole of year 1 had been filmed and they said 'you might be on the TV'

But they told him he was chosen and would be on.

He is still asking when he is on the Telly, but I've not said anything yet.

AIBU to think Cbeebies shouldn't do this to 6 year olds?

YABU. They cannot know when they are filming exactly what they might need for the programme.

How much were the two that were shown on?

It does seem a little unfair and disappointing for him - assuming they didn't indicate that he might be on tv, rather than implying he definitely would be. Would it really be that hard to use a brief clip of each child filmed? Possibly, but he should have been made aware of that at the time, surely?

I think being angry is probably U and a bit of an over reaction. Obviously it would have been great for him to see himself on TV, but if your DS's life is otherwise normal then a bit of disappointment won't be the end of the world. And it is a good opportunity to teach him how to deal with disappointment and build resilience. He still had the experience of making the program.

How much did they film him? Was it minutes or hours?

Typical in the industry.

I feel sorry for your son though :)

But they told him he was chosen and would be on

Didn't the teacher tell you that he would be on?

Have you been bigging this up for him and getting him over-excited?

This happens all the time. Maybe the only footage they had of him he was picking his nose. For programmes like this you always shoot far more footage than you need then you can cut out the best few bits and put them in the program. This even happens with scripted stuff - have you not heard of phrase "ending up on the cutting room floor"? This happens to people even when they've been paid for their time.

They TV companies are a business, they're not there to make sure everyone has an equal turn, otherwise they wouldn't have picked 6 people in the first place. The school should have been clearer to you, and you should in turn have been clearer to your son, that he was being filmed and might be on TV.