to want to strangle someone at the BBC for changing the Cbeebies schedule without giving on air notice

[radiohelen]

My lo loves Show me Show me. It's part of his routine to watch it in the morning and he loves the groovy moves bit. We do it together and it's actually interactive and fun. It's the only decent damn tv show with 'real' people in it and the b*&^%ards have taken it off. Now there isn't a real human being on the screen (not counting the presenters) until Big Cook Little Cook after 9am and there is virtually nothing aimed at 2 year-olds. Even Justin is for 4-7 year olds.
Apparently the Cbeebies website had news on the changes, in the special grown ups section, but I don't have time to trawl for information. Surely the BBC could have made a trail saying it's springtime and things are changing..... clearly that would be too much to ask. All thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded... bah!

Now, RadioHelen, this is Mumsnet and you will be berated into outer space for letting your LO watch television at all, nevermind whining about LO being denied a favourite programme.

My LO also loves Show Me, Show Me. It's the only thing that I like him to watch as it's not a bag of arse and it's better than that awful DirtGirlWorld (wtf IS that?) and lots of the other crap supplied as entertainment for the DCs.

I don't think that the BBC necessarily need to inform us of specific shows going off air tbh. It's just one of those things. Series' end. if you have iPlayer, Show Me SHow Me is still on there. HTH.

so, you base your child's routine around a television show and expect them to show it at the same time every single day for the next few years??

generally things are changed every so often, just as they are with adult television.

so erm, yeah, yabu!

and i say this as someone who used to use cbeebies a LOT!!! lol.

I HATE big cook little cook with a passion. At least show me is educational.

I am annoyed that it is now mostly cartoony type shows that aren't educational at all.

My DS is 19mth and he loves Something Special.

Before the "what are you doing letting your toddler watch tv" harpies start.

I am a single parent with no family to help me and so I would rather pop the TV on when I shower/go to the toilet/cook a meal than have him tantrumming for me.

DS was quite upset that he may of missed 'The Brand New, Bob The Builder' yesterday while he was at the park that I had a little search for it/ It starts next week and is on in the morning and repeated in the afternoon but not all afternoons. I really dont get how they schedule

At Christmas they had several 'specials' on Christmas Day ie Postman Pat, Bob TB, that were shows with a Christmas Eve theme and would of been better in the run up to Christmas Day .. not the day itself

YANBU, I posted something similar in Chat and got told I should turn the tv off and go outside, whatever.

Our routine was based on watching Show Me and 9 too. The 2 cocks are total crap. I would have Sky + Show Me if I knew it was finishing.

I have banned cbeebies becuase I am on maternity leave and was going to do myself in if I watched one more second of it. Now DS1 watches DVD's instead. I am encouraging him towards things I like

I remember when they changed the bedtime hour, and stopped showing In The Night Garden last thing. Everyone went apeshit, saying it was an important part of their child's routine, and their DC's wouldn't sleep without it. So the lesson is; use cbeebies, but don't base a routine around it. Here endeth the lesson for the day

i don't care how much tv people let their kids watch tbh, or how often they go outside

i just think it's crazy to get any routine set up around a television show. no show goes on forever, it's fairly obvious it's going to end at some point and then what happens?

Aah, My son (and me) took it very much to heart when Chris and Poi (Poy?) stopped doing the continuity bits so I can understand.

Wish I had a pound for every time this thread came up over the years!! Take note BBC!

show me show me has ended? please say its going to start again, ds and i love it.. we've only started watching it as well

although i did see a live show me show me tour was starting this month, maybe it will be on again after thats finished

i knew i should have recorded it.. sooo much better than the other guff on cbeebies.

on another note does the woman from "i can cook" make anyone want to scream and drink heavily?

Lol Ellebing... I'll just go and weave my hair shirt now!

and witchywoowoo - I'd like to take her guitar and stick it where the sun don't shine. The overly cheerful singy bit is enough to make me hit the gin ;)

Do people on MN really come along and tell people not to let their children watch too much tv? I hope they get told to piss off and mind their own business.

Anyway. Dd2 loves Show Me Show Me too and we all love the groovy moves - best thing on cbeebies if you ask me. We have to rely entirely on IPlayer as we don't live in the UK, my big bug bear is that they have things on tv for ages which doesn't come onto IPlayer. You should see our anxieties over Kerwhizz in this household....

Could you please knit some hummous whilst you are there, RH? It's just that little Theo has run out and it would be simply dreadful for him not to have some at elevenses tomorrow.

Meh. Kids like television shows. C'est la vie. I used to watch Buttom Moon then Let's Pretend then Bagpuss all in a lovely, over-stimulating row. Hasn't affected me or my academic prowess so it's all a big load of middle-class superiority bollocks anyway. And this doesn't mean that I let DS watch endless television, he just ain't that interested in it. I just wouldn't kick up a fuss if he fancied watching mr Tumble of whatever whilst I was vacuuming.

I'm quite glad of the changes. We tend to watch after lunchtime for a wee rest and I get bored with the same things over and over when I am reading the paper interacting with my son. Ds is devastated that Waybuloo isn't on at 6, but he'll get over it in a week like he usually does.

I Can Cook woman = grrrrrr

Her songs are shite too, the rhythm is always out and the rhymes rarely rhyme properly, she tried to rhyme tomato with potato the other day which made me want to kick her shins.

Tikkabilla is on at 6 am (was the original show me show me, prog after 'playdays' ended) maybe record that? It has real people and 'tamba' a furry thing

do they still have any of the old episodes on cbeebies iplayer or anything? or only when its currently being shown on the tv
i think they do change the schedules every season? i never feel keen on what they've done when they change it round totally but you get used to it and your ds might find another programme that he likes, they used to have that granny murrey one @ 9am before in summer time, so thats another one with human beings
whats on now @ 9am i cant remember?
i dont like all this new zingzilla stuff they have put on, is it that @ 9?
im wondering if they will change the schedule again a bit after the school holidays finish, sometimes its a bit different in holidays

Yeah why isn't waybuloo on at 6 anymore, is that a permanent thing?

I love show me show me. Chris and Poi are just superstars, they show their replacements up as the amateurs they are (in your face Andy and Alex!)

My favourite bit is 'puffs of cloud, way up high...wonderful things, floating by'...just fantastic. Both kiddies transfixed, and me with them.

YANBU OP, i share your pain.

though we do use Iplayer in this house to 'reorganise' the schedule if we want the kids in bed early....

FFS buy the DVD if it's an integral part of your DC's routine

I love Chris and Pui too. When LO had the dreaded norovirus, I let him lie on the sofa and digest as much CBeebies as his little beain could take. I soon got to work out that I don't much like Ceri and Alex (too smug) but I love Sid and Andy and I want them to come and do the number rap in my house. I like Mr Tumble/Justin/whatever but he's like the CBeebies own Myleene Klass i.e absolutely ubiquitous.

Apparently Chris and Pui are departing CBeebies to go and do a kids series in (eek) America. They just won't be appreciated like they are here. Harummph.

Little brain LITTLE BRAIN.

They must have received my letter. I hate Show Me Show Me.

Mwahahahahahahahahahaha....

I'm with shaz.

'A fis finger'

Gah.

As long as In the Night Garden stays on, we'll be fine in my house.

dont get me started on this, takes me by surprise every timethey do it, and dd is now 4

i too remmeber being aghast when they took ITNG off at bedtime ... but dd wasnt really bothered LOL. We now have sky plus and it's full of series linked c beebies stuff LOL.

Now she likes something called zingzilla's! It's awful but not quite as a bad as dirtgirlworld.