AIBU or are there a disproportionate number of Scots accents on cbeebies?

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Woolly and Tig, Balamory, Me Too, Bits and Bobs and now "keetee moooregg."

And only one scouser, and not a single northerner! What's going on?!

Actually I take it back - one of bits and bobs is o'brien off Downton.

Isn't Balamory set in Scotland?

I was thinking this earlier today too. Quite a few kids programmes are set or filmed in Scotland this weather.

I wonder if it's cheaper to produce them up north. Isn't that the reason Waterloo Road moved to Greenock?

Don't forget nina (of and the neurons fame!)

Because they are made by BBC Scotland.

Its to appease the rebellious Scots who have complained in the past about lack of representation on the BBC. Same reason as the shipbuilding going to the Clyde rather than Portsmouth. The government is shit scared the Scots will vote for independence next year.

Because we are all amazing innit.

I see Tig and Katie Morag everyday in real life - that is my rubbish claim to fame!

Wow giraffes! Are they real divas? What's on their backstage rider?

Same reason as the shipbuilding going to the Clyde rather than Portsmouth.

Not because the skills are better in Glasgow? Which is what OH has been told by people in the know (he works for a defence company).

Or maybe, this year, Scotland produced a higher quality of bbc kids programmes. Is it not based on rating?

Really, I have to ask, why start a thread about it? Do you have a problem with Scottish accents? Until next year (when we get the vote), we're meant to be one big happy family!

DH just said mr bloom is northern but he isn't, he's Cornish and any northerner can hear it in his cod Yorkshire vowels.

Who's the Scouser? Can't think who you mean.

My dissertation back in the day, was accent and dialect, and at the time, broadcasting was chock full of Irish accents. They were very much the vogue. Now it's Scots. Will scousers have their day?

The market trader off Me Too is a scouser.

Me too is filmed in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester.

But the Gherkin building is in the titles! I'm easily confused!

No YANBU. I've thought it for years and it does seem a bit OTT. Surely a little confusing for little English people learning to talk?

My dh has just told me, BBC Scotland are in charge of kids programmes. So that's maybe why.

Oh we wouldn't want those little people speaking anything other than clipped Home Counties accents would we? Dahlang.

I like all the Scottish accents. I have trouble with accents so hearing Scottish ones all day sometimes when dd watches cbeebies has helped me a lot haha!

There aren't many RP accents either though. Chris off ShowMe ShowMe and his slightly Noël Coward vowels is maybe the closest.

And nurse morag from get well soon! My Story is often Scotland based too. love a scots accent so not complaining....

Now Chorlton and the Wheelies - that had linguistic diversity!

I've always thought there was a disproportionate number of English accents on kid's TV shows. About time Scots had their day

I think it's nice. Everything else on tv seems to be Southern centered.

Keith Fitt from Gigglebiz is Scouse