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 can remember watching a schools programme back in the 70s with my very broadly NE Scotland spoken primary class. Pictire of tortoise shown on screen. RP presenter: "now children, what's this?" Class: "its a to-ar-toys". RP presenter: "that's right, it's a tortus". Class: "eh, fit's she on aboot?".

Katie Morag (rather than your rather insulting attempt at phonetically sounding it out) is based on a series of books about a little girl on a Scottish island. What do you want them to do? Transport her to the south east?

mumteedum you mean you love the patter?

BBC scotland make a lot of childrens programmes maybe the London studios jus make serious programmes, it is all to do with outsourcing , and what is exactly wrong with a scots accent EH . balamory was made in scotland and katie (who i used to love) is a scottish book

Oh and there's a reason many many major companies base their contact centres in Scotland. Here's a clue, it's because a properly pronounced Scottish accent is reassuring, professional and creates the right impression. And doesn't sound like cats claws on a black board.

I know some of Katie Morag's extended relations in RL and apparently she is PITA since she got that gig.

KM is a series of books i meant I loved reading them in my scottish accent to dd2

Island granny and mainland granny.

Love the books. Even my 8 year los was thrilled to see the tv show advertised, although I haven't seen it yet.

The octonauts is absolutely full of different accents. Lionfish, for example, are scouse.

Nobody has mentioned the Cheeky wee McGregors or Granny Murray!
There are very few genuine northern Scot accents on children's tv. Most sound like they are from around the Glasgow area.
Eadie McCreadie's highland accent is fake but Granny Island's accent sounds authentic.

er you should be a brummie!! can't think of one character with a brummie/Black Country accent.

oright!!

IShallWearMidnight when I was a child I actually thought a "tortoise" and a "tautus" were two different animals because of the different pronunciations by different people.

Cloudbabies are fake northern too :( they slip back into other accents occasionally.

Forgot about green balloon club! The little boy in that is full on Yorkshire

Thankfully I don't have to watch it any more, but I thought Justin was English and he used to be on everything :o

thebody - Big and Small!

Love the books. Even my 8 year los was thrilled to see the tv show advertised, although I haven't seen it yet.

dd is 15 and I heard it was on cbeebies I am tempted to watch it

Isn't the lady who works on the buses in Mee Too a Manc? Can't remember her name but she buggered off to Corrie for a while.

I live near Inverness and can't understand a weird half of them are saying sometimes but then I'm Glasweigan so no one understands me most of the time as we have a tendency to speak to
fast and add/subtract letters at random apparently :o

Did someone say Justin (a.k.a TV licence hog) isn't English?

Most of Postman Pat have got Yorkshire accents.

Apart from Mrs Goggins, who is scottish.

Fluffytent I have only seen the trailers for this, she doesn't sound like a Hebridean islander to me. Is she, do you know? She actually sounds like DD and we're in Perthshire

YABU. why do you care?

BBC Scotland make all these programmes, clearly the commissioners felt these programmes were the best of what was on offer. And Katie Morag is set in Scotland, so I'm not surprised that the actors in it are Scottish.

As to the poster who thought it might be confusing for her DC to hear diffierent accents- are you serious? I hope not. Incredibly ignorant.

The bus cleaner on Me Too was in corry when I last watched it, she's from the North West. Most of Postman Pat are Yorkshire accents, especially Ted Glen!

But yes there are a lot of Scottish accents although I always wondered why the Waybuloo ones are dubbed over if they clearly have a love for the Scottish accent.

amithathot she's from Glasgow I'm told. Family are lovely but she's gone a bit Shirley Temple I believe

Calm down, I can assure you that it's not a conspiracy to take England down via the medium of cartoons and it's nothing to do with independence.
It's purely that with several Scottish TV production companies turning out high quality kids shows, presumably lower production costs than SE England, there happen to be some Scottish accents around. Katie Morag is the spin-off from a series of incredibly popular kids books, they're unlikely to uproot the show to suit your preference for accents when it's written in the Western Isles. Topsy and Tim started around the same time as Katie Morag, but you don't mention their English accents?
As a mum with a Scottish accent, husband with SE English accent and toddler with a bit of both, I'm happy that CBeebies is so diverse. And I love that some of the shows are filmed in such great places. They have a strong sense of location, family, community, all very important.
There are plenty of other regional accents represented throughout the shows, something to please everyone. This is what the UK is like in 2013, diverse!
It's not a conspiracy, it's just real life nowadays and I for one would prefer my child to hear lots of variety.

shallistopnow oh, yes, very confusing. I'm sure my son, who lives with his two Scottish parents, in wales, and attends an English nursery, is terribly confused.

we'll ignore the fact his speech is apparently at the level of a four year old at age two.

Fuck sake.

oh not seen big and small! probably as youngest a teen and no longer childmind but will catch it.

hope its authentic brummie not put on?