Bllody Cbeebies have done it again!

[MarioandLuigi]

Why do they feel the need to piss about with thier schedule so much.

In a morning, if I turn on Cbeebies at 8am, DS and DD can watch Timmy Time and Chuggington while I get washed and dressed, but they have now replaced it with Teletubbies, so the last two mornings I have had them hanging round my ankles in the bathroom.

Its the same at lunchtime, when DS comes back from preschool we watches the same two shows, now its been replaced with Nuzzle and Scratch (which is the worst show ever!) DS wouldnt eat his lunch.

Why have they taken two good programmes off the air to replace it with this shite

(Actually the reason is they are trying to flog thier DVD's and so they pull the programme off the air in the hope that parents will therefore go out and but the DVD's)

Turn the telly off.

Kinda answered your own question there, mario.

Use the iplayer. Without that, I'd be stuffed in the mornings.

I love that they move things about. My dcs only watch TV from 5.30 to 6.30 and for 3 FRICKIN YEARS I had to watch farkin' Storymakers.
Bloody Blue Cow. I hope it is blue beefburgers now.

I do turn the telly off, but that means I dont get a minute to do anything before school, and as DS is a funny eater, so have found that if I let him watch telly with his lunch it seems to disappear.

I have just ordered a Chuggington DVD from Amazon, exactly what the BBC wanted me to do

Oh i hope they haven't changed their evening schedule - my son loves waybalu and iggle piggle before bedtime

And I hope they do change it Lorrycat as my dd is too old for Iggle and neither of them 'get' Wayballoo.

I did get wayballoo once when I was 3/4 of the way through a particularly nice Chenin Blanc.

Evening schedule is the same

Steal them off the internet.

i liked ITNG the charlie & lola not these freaky wide faced floaty things

i have 2 words

sky plus

Glad the evening schedule hasn't changed, ds loves waybuloo, and I love watching him copy the yogo off it!

Chuggington's gone? YES! Nuzzle and scratch is back? Crap.

get freeview+

it will solve all your problems

iPlayer

DS has had his TV drastically reduced lately but he does love chuggington, timmy and ITNG. Its also much easier to limit if you have to put on a program specifically, so if he's in a mood and I need to make his lunch, 10 minutes of timmy is perfect

Yes, we have a computer plugged into our TV, but a laptop would work just as well

Blimey try living overseas like I do and only have Discovery Kids with three hundred adverts (in Spanish) every five minutes...

...we use a lot of DVD's and have discovered how to get i-player with a "bought in" IPN, which has made life a lot easier!

Yes, I agree Claraquack, we only have PBS kids here, some of which is ok (too tight to pay for Disney Channel and other such shite!) We use the BBC website a lot and would happily pay the licence fee from abroad to be able to use iplayer, especially now they've even put the songs on that.

tadjenny - we have used a company called Lamnia to purchase our IPN address, which allows us to use i-player. We have to download stuff as our broadband connection isn't good enough to watch "live streaming" but it is brilliant - as well as cbeebies, I am also able to watch Eastenders, Casualty and all sorts of other stuff.

But I agree I would happily pay the licence fee to be able to get bbc over here. People who complain about British tv (including cbeebies) don't know they're born!

Oooh, claraquack - was it expensive? I am in Australia now and miss quite a few things - we can't afford cable yet (which would get me Eastenders and some other English shows) so am interested. Is Lamnia only good for Spain?

I have to say though that ABC have picked up a lot of CBeebies stuff so we don't really miss out in that respect (although I loathe Chuggington and Finlay the Fire Engine, especially as we get the latter in its original American format, not the UK dubbing)

We use skype quite a lot and the other day my Dad pointed the webcam at the TV and my dcs watched Numberjacks on Cbeebies, via skype! It wasn't what I'd envisaged with skype but it was quite funny!

Thumblebells - I think about £100 a year? My dh sorted it out. We're not in Spain, we actually live in the Caribbean (getting the Peurto Rico feed of US cable, we think, which is why it is in Spanish), but I think you can use it anywhere in the world.

Tadjenny - that's really funny, perhaps we'll try that one day!

Caribbean - nice! Sounds better than the snow in Oregon at the mo! Elmo's world is about to finish so I ought to stop lurking on MN and play with my dcs! (slapped wrist emoticon!)

Does this work anywhere in the world? I a moving to Canada soon and hate the idea of all the ads.

Even watching Wayballoo would be preferable!

Yes anywhere in the world I assume - here is a link: here. It looks like about £6.50 a month. They route you through UK servers. It's fantastic, last night we watched Defying Gravity, the night before Casualty, tonight we have Small Island or Paradox to chose from, or I may watch my Eastenders Omnibus....And the kids have been watching Ooglies, Nina and the Neurons, Numberjacks etc.

Tadjenny - it's so hot here, I would actually quite like to be in snowy Oregon for a day or two!! Like you I really should be playing with the dc's but as they are not fighting or crying I will leave them a while longer...

Thanks Clara, sorry about the mistaken assumption

Will look into it for sure, DH is missing his Eastenders fix (and he's the Australian!)

I can't bear Waybuloo either...