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

[Slatecross]

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?!

I'm so excited about Katie moral, I could kiss bbc Scotland. There are a few BBC Wales programmes too. Grandpa in my pocket, abadas....

So there's only one person from the north west? (The MeToo scouser) Even Justin doesn't have a north west character!!

Cross posted - Keith Fitt is a Geordie!

DH quite often twists the Abadas song to: My name is Seren and I am a Welsh bat..

DS (4) never noticed or cared about different accents on cbeebies. Never heard of any kids that did/do.

Keith Fit is a Geordie!

I didn't realise Grandpa in my pocket was Welsh

One of the lady's from the shop in Balamory is northern.

Oh, is he? In my defence, I'm foreign..

Grandpa in my pocket is filmed partly in Southwald (South east England).

Whereismyhat, sorry no she's s Geordie too!

Presumably some of the responses are tongue in cheek?

Same as shipbuilding on the Clyde

Confusing for little ones learning to speak

I'll take these as the jokes they clearly are.

The language used and the accents in all of the BBC Scotland programmes are perfectly clear and understandable.

Everyone in the country has an accent of some description. Perhaps people like me don't want children speaking like Charlie and Lola. But then that would make me unreasonable.

Is it? I thought it was Milford haven-ish! The set is 100% ikea!

Some of it is definitely welsh www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/global-tv-hit-grandpa-pocket-1937397

I always thought it was because the Scottish accent announce certain words more clearly ... Like they roll their "r".... Well I do anyway ie I say iron (irn bru) where my English counterparts called it ion bru and
We just know it's not!!! Like the town bury near Manchester, it's spelt bury so as a Scottish person I say bury but English people call it berry .... So I think it's to help people pronounce words and often it's a accent that's easily understood as a child!

Amithathot you can't be too careful. My brother watched too much of The Clangers and now can only communicate with the use of a swannee whistle...

I wish Yorkshire was better represented. All we have is sexy fake Mr Bloom.

Keeps my DH in a job!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_programmes_produced_by_BBC_Scotland

As others have said BBC Scotland is primarily in charge of children programming.

Tbh i think its nice to hear different accents on TV.as when i was a child it was all English.

Oh and to whoever it was whining about Govan/Portsmouth, pull your knickers out of your arse the standard of work was the main reason for the decision not "

"fear"

Slatecross, your poor brother, but it could have been worse, he could have been raised on the Teletubbies

Yes, or Pingu!

A Scottish accent without slang is more neutral than any other place in Britain according to recent studies. Am I Scottish? Aye. Scottish Independence? i'll wait until the 26th for the proposals but probably think nah ur awrite .

What do you mean by "neutral"?

Penny Pocket is northern/Geordie.

Yes, I was always led to believe that the people from Inverness speak the purest form of English - clear, distinct words, vowels, etc.

I think PC Plum, for example, has a very, very clear speaking voice

I know it's not cbeebies but Postman Pat is Scottish....he's married to someone I went to school with!!