To be sad that Blue Peter is ending on TV?

[CannThomas]

Read the news this morning that Blue Peter is leaving out TV screens and going online only. AIBU to feel gutted? It was such a massive part of my televisual childhood!

Blue Peter was a programme that adults thought kids liked but no kid I knew liked it. Certainly not in the 70s.
My friend said she and her brother always started to fight when that came on, they didn't want to watch that!
My husband claims he liked it.......not sure I believe him!
Should have been binned years ago - decades ago!

DS is 8 and loves it but never watches it live, as he is at a Sports club on Friday evenings. I'd imagine that many more of the target audience are in wraparound care or at organised clubs during the evenings than back in the 1990s when I watched it.

Ah,live Blue Peter....no more incontinent elephants or out-of-control bonfires.Happy days 😆

My presenters were

Simon Groom
Janet Ellis
Peter Duncan
Sarah Greene
John Noakes
Lesley Judd
Peter Purves

Yep, agree with everyone else. It was boring when I was a kid in the 70s. My own DC never watched it. Didn't realise it had still been on!

All 3 of my DC have Blue Peter badges but TBH they never really watched it very much. I liked it as a child and DH was at school with someone who became a presenter!

I don't think it matters if it's not live TV anymore. And who watches terrestrial TV?

To be Honest, I think it has long had its Day. Todays children, on the whole, do not seem to watch TV as much as I did, say, in the 1970s. They watch online films and TV Shows etc
I was a Magpie girl myself, though sometimes saw Blue Peter as a friend I visited sometimes liked it.
Only 3 channels we had.

I never liked it, always found it dull as ditchwater, and I'm in my 60s.

Ah Magpie was slightly before my time even though I remember it and the presenter etc - I was 7 when it finished !

Or wanting to talk about it at school the next day.

I always prefered Magpie. It was a bit more trendy.

I once accidentally saw a part of Mark Curry that I shouldn’t have. Disclaimer: I was an adult and it as not his fault in the slightest

the whole nation tuned in to watch a lot of dross as there were only 3 channels!

I love tat my kids can choose to watch stuff that interests them or I can always find something which I think would benefit them in some way.

My kids both really like Blue Peter. I found it really dull growing up. It's changed a lot and is much less worthy nowadays.

Even in the 70s it was rather dull and worthy, I much preferred Magpie. It seemed to have been made by adults who had a rather sheltered view of what kids truly like. I also watched Get It Together and The Tomorrow People, ITV kids shows were so much better than the Beeb.

I think with some toilet-roll tubes, some sticky-back plastic and a couple of wire coat hangers, and a PP3 battery (you should probably ask an adult to help you with this bit) you may be able to pick up the original TV programmes that are bouncing off objects in space.

(Based on what Patrick Moore once said.)