Live online chat with Creative Director of CBeebies, Michael Carrington, 1-2pm Wed Jan 30th

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Micheal Carrington, creative director of CBeebies will be coming to chat live next weds, Jan 30th from 1-2pm. In his previous job, he brought, amongst other programmes Lunar Jim and Charlie and Lola to the BBC, and he's now editorially responsible for the CBeebies digital channel as well as for all CBeebies output on BBC ONE and BBC TWO; and for bbc.co.uk/cbeebies.

So if you've got a burning question about the future of Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy, or want to start a campaign to bring back Chigley, please join us at 1pm next weds (that was Watch with Mother time in my day ).

If you can't make it on the day, you can of course post your questions in advance here.

lot sof mentoion of justin from mike
i also guffawed at licence thing

i wish they had adverts tbh

i noticed the funded thing.

at least he answered by question, i wonder if he's truly devastated though

my (i have a cold)

Califrau, DS1 (3.9) said, "D is for Double savings, F is for Four years interest free credit with the first year payment free, S is for Sofas" the other day. He had the intonation perfectly - he's a good mimic! He's always telling me they have the best sofas and, look, they're half price!

Not TV though, I worked out - commercial radio!

ooh wasn't he good

and now my contribution - Carol Chell's daughter went to my junior school and used to open our fetes

That's it

we have to import Charlie & Lola and ITNG DVDs as, like Suzy, we have shit children's TV AND the DVDs come out about 2 years later

We have only about 1 hour CBeebies everyday here in Forces Tv, which was a real culture shock when DD arrived here from the UK. Could you see if BFBS can buy in more AND schedule it when children are home from school and not at school. We have to rely entirely on DVDs as the only chance we get to watch the 3/4 programmes a day is when she is on school holiday. I do know we are only a minute sector, but please help!!

In regards to the post made by Mercy:

By Mercy on Thu 24-Jan-08 16:46:35
there seems to be a huge gulf in the type of programmes shown on Cbeebies and those on Cbbc. My dd (nearly 7) has nearly outgrown Cbeebies but many of the programmes shown on Cbbc seem to aimed at a pre-teen/early teen audience and are unsuitable imo.
I would like to see more programmes aimed at 6-10 year olds to be shown after school. What do you think?

I agree with her, i think that there should be a cbeebies, cbbc and cbeens (for young teenage cbbc watchers) in order to spread out the viewing so it's age appropriate for all the target audience all of the time!!

In regards to the post made by Mercy:

By Mercy on Thu 24-Jan-08 16:46:35
there seems to be a huge gulf in the type of programmes shown on Cbeebies and those on Cbbc. My dd (nearly 7) has nearly outgrown Cbeebies but many of the programmes shown on Cbbc seem to aimed at a pre-teen/early teen audience and are unsuitable imo.
I would like to see more programmes aimed at 6-10 year olds to be shown after school. What do you think?

I agree with her, i think that there should be a cbeebies, cbbc and cbeens (for young teenage cbbc watchers) in order to spread out the viewing so it's age appropriate for all the target audience all of the time!!