To wonder why CBBC broadcasts all day long...?

[UpsyDaisy123]

...When children are supposed to be in school?

Am I missing something? Are the programmes intended to be watched AT school or they just for children who happen to at home ill/in hospital?

There are always kids off school for holidays, sickness, home educated.
various finishing times.

I have a very distinct memory of being at my gran's house and Working Lunch coming on with my grandpa's lunch being brought in for him on a tray. He always used to insist on checking Ceefax every so often which I hated because I just wanted to watch my programs.

I loved Crown Court. Do people remember when TV actually closed down for the night and they used to play the National anthem?

My sister worked with a group of adults with learning disabilities, they watched CBBC.

I LOVED crown court !

I wonder if there are repeats

Here we are:-

I loved a bit of Crown Court when I was off school for my exams, also a series called 'Marked Personal' starring Stephanie Beacham as a personnel officer in a large company.

Ms Hoolies, yes! They were always terribly serious about it too. And there was that old BBC globe with the clock.

You can find clips on YouTube.

I always used to enjoy an episode of Chock-A-Block when I happened to be home at lunch time.

It's often on in children's wards in hospital.

And by the time you looked at all the non-matching term dates of all the nations of the UK, there probably aren't that many weeks left over, so you may as well run it all the time as be on stop-start.

'Up above the streets and houses, rainbow flying high...'
Mary Mungo and Midge
A bit of the very strange Mr Benn

Just lovely. My mum had a Very Important Job and so if I had something like a common cold I was left at home, with the money to go along and get myself a bottle of Lucozade from the shop, then spend the day in the sofa. Big Sis would come and check on me during secondary lunch hour.

Ah, Pebble Mill at One and Crown Court - the background to our sick days

I had a long-term absence from work in the noughties, if I fell asleep watching the lunchtime news I'd wake up to Murder she Wrote! She could fit a lot of tweed suits in that small suitcase when she travelled ....

Kondo and LemonPledge,

I share your pain re childhood ill days and Take The High Road!

I've only to hear mention of "Glendarroch", for this image to swim into my consciousness...

Cotswold or Diagnosis Murder.

I have a confession I love Shaun the sheep it is silly and makes me laugh

Sick kids have a lot of choice these days - we only have Freeview but there's CBeebies, CBBC, Pop, Tiny Pop and CITV. Despite this my 9 year old likes to watch back to back 80s quiz shows on Challenge when he is poorly.

Dd2 used to prefer takeshis castle if she was off school

I loved being poorly as a child because it meant I could stay with my grandma and watch those '80s American made-for-TV dramas where the actress from Cagney and Lacey was a school-teacher who started up her own school in her garage for kids that had fallen out of the system or Heather Locklear played a woman with a multiple personality disorder.

I loved those dramas. They were always about ordinary people fighting the system.

Watching CBBC would have been boring in contrast.

So you pay for subscription TV letting you record or invest in a set top box/TV with Freeview/Freesat recording capabilities.

But you did get to watch neighbours! Before they started the evening showing....

Like Werk I used to go to my grandma's if I was ill. We used to watch the Sullivans, The Cedar Tree(?) and Farmhouse Kitchen. She'd always have some knitting on the go whilst we watched.

It means you can record what they like to watch later, instead of having to always see whatever is on after school.

It won't cost them very much to play reruns of shows during the day, so they might as well. There will always be people to watch it: some older preschoolers might; kids who are ill; kids who are home educated or educated outside of normal school hours; kids on inset days. And as someone else said, the school holidays vary so much around the country that it would be a nightmare to track them all.

I suppose it's better for them to broadcast and have very few people watch it, than for them to not broadcast and have people switch to CITV/Nick/etc.

I didn't think people watched live TV anymore so it makes no difference what time stuff is on. In our house we never watch anything live, just record it and watch it at our leisure or watch it on catchup. It seems like most people are doing the same, picking stuff off netflicks/youtube/iplayer etc, so i reckon TV schedules are becoming less and less relevant. We record some programmes off CBBC but I've no idea what time they are actually on.

Not all children go to school.

I remember a long time ago coming down one morning to my dad watching The Shoe People and singing along to the theme tune.