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!

i use show me show me as my coffee/wake up time break.... DS is so busy giggling/dancing that i actually manage to down some caffeine and make my eyes less blurry. im a zombie before that...

shh, dont tell anyone but sometimes i manage to put on non pj based clothes during that time too!

that's been taken away from me. ds isn't even remotely interested in the crap they show now.

onetwobucklemyshoe i sky+ timmy time for myself too. actually made dh watch it when ds was in bed!

then dh bought me a little timmy soft toy..

i may be getting obsessed

We have the large plush toy which was 1/2 price in Tesco mainly fore!

The only downside is the theme sticks in your head...

Timmy, it's Timmy.... arghhhhhhhh

*for me

Dear BBC

It goes like this: wake up, clean nappy, bib on, milk sorted, TV on, Show Me Show Me. Okay?

Love and hugs,

Sick of Big Cook Little Cook already.

lol mouseface! i wonder what bbc would do if we all sent letters like that

on another note, i actually sent a message to cbeebies asking what was happening to show me show me.. heres hoping they'll answer [doubtful face]

he's the little lamb with a lot to learn, Timmy, it's timmy, a handful of trouble at every turn
damn you onetwo its stuck in my headforever now

not that i mind of course

i adapt it for dd's tummy it's tummy she's the little girl with a lot to learn
time

is it sad that DS is in bed having a nap, and im online chatting passionatly about cbeebies and the loss of one of its shows?

I can cope with the unannounced schedule change (bet you're all breathing a sigh of relief there), except for one thing. Fucking fucking JAKERS. The worst tv programme ever made in the history of anything. WHY HAVE YOU PUT IT ON AT SEVEN IN THE COCKING MORNING?

Come back Gearth und Biv, all your weirdo semi-Oirish accent drift is forgiven. As long as you get those hideous shrill pigs off my screen.

Am happy that Waybuloo has gone from the bedtime hour though. One more night of hissing 'stop jumping up and down you fakers!' at those bloody stage school kids and all my hair would have fallen out.

Ha Twolittlepontipines Dirty Dirt Girl! I heard that one too! It was a chat line for desperados. I think Dirt Girls is also the voice over for Pansy on the mega boring Zingzillas. Dirty Dirt Girl has taught me a good few gardening tips though. DS1 and I learn things together. Who knew that rings of sandpaper around my plants would keep slugs away! Thanks CBeebies! Still doesn't help Radiohelen find out if Chris and Pui are returning though.

ZingZillas is so bad. As if the production company didn't make vast enough stacks of cash from the remarkably similar Tweenies.

And don't get me started on Dirtgirlworld with its wonky signals - all that guff about 'look at me, I'm grubby', sung in a wobbly coy flirty voice by a winking maniac.

Glad everyone else thinks Zingzillas is crap. DS thinks the talking Easter Island-stylee heads are really scary (I think the apes/monkeys are scarier, with mad staring eyes and unpleasantly spiky hair) and we haven't really got the whole coconut thing yet.

Why do all new Cbeebies shows seem to have to be bloody musicals, anyway? A bit of song and dance is fine, but why burst into song all.the.time? (Tho we liked Third and Bird too - DS is missing Muffin. Mmm, maybe he does watch Beebies a bit too much.)

Dirtgirl World is just ... odd. I feel like I ought to like it - it's made for lentil-weavers, it's all eco and tolerant and educational. Then I watch five minutes of it and I want to stamp on small flowers and kick kittens.

Anyone who is against their kids watching a bit of TV, you are welcome to have that opinion. However, I happen to have 19 month old triplets and doing anything at all during the day is impossible if I don't use some TV to entertain them.

People who have only one child or have children spaced out over a few years are lucky that they have all their time to dedicate to that one child so that they can involve them in what they are doing or wait until they are asleep or napping. I don't get help from anyone, me and my partner have to do everything ourselves, and that takes time and energy. It has to be done during the day and putting the TV on for a bit means I get the time I need to keep the house going. Or maybe I should end up with my kids running round naked because I haven't had time to do the washing?

Thank Goodness. I'm not so bad a mother that I have to sometimes plonk the kiddiewinkles in front of The Night Garden to get things done. I have been pondering away today, wondering how I can involve the two of them 3.10yrs and 9mths in my chores. It seems impossible without my chores taking 4 times as long. We would then never leave the house. CBeebies has definitely helped me get my jobs done quicker so that we can do something outside of the house...so that's a good thing.

And...confession ... I sort of fancy Sportacus..is that wrong?

Sportacus most certainly is not wrong.

Let's face it, it's either Sportacus or Justin as Arthur Sleep. No contest.

I still haven't got over when the BBC replaced the Flintstones with Neighbours at 5pm. It's only been about 20 years

Sportacus is wrong. Mind you, I have a tiny crush on Eddie from Chuggington

What? At least Sportacus is an actual person!

He's just so bloody healthy. Imagine offering him a glass of wine - he'd be all 'don't you know that stuff is bad for you? Here, have a slice of melon instead.'

I wouldn't be offering him a glass of wine. I'd be doing some exercise with him though so he'd approve of that surely?

Minx, I know, I understand, it just seemed like a shame that here was a nice thread about kids' TV, with no-one arguing about whether TV was good for kids, and then this pre-emptive rudeness came out. I wasn't on this thread! None of the anti-TV brigade were. And yet the snide 'lentil weaving' comments were out in force nonetheless. Why is that okay?

I haven't judged anyone. I haven't said a thing. And I'm getting laughed at for answering a question.

Now, back to talking about TV crushes. Far more interesting.

Says here that another series has been comissioned

www.rhylpavilion.co.uk/shows/id/442

phew...