CBeebies

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CBeebies
Launched	11 February 2002
Owned by	BBC
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Audience share	1.3% (February 2007, [1])
Replaced	CBBC on Choice (Programming strand on BBC Choice)
Sister channel(s)	BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News 24, CBBC Channel, BBC Parliament
Website	www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 71
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 617
Cable
Virgin Media	Channel 702

CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children six years and under. Launched on 11 February 2002 it broadcasts from 06:00 to 19:00 on Freeview (where it shares bandwidth with BBC Four, broadcast after 19:00), cable and digital satellite. The CBBC Channel is its sister channel for older children. ^[2]

CBeebies offers a mix of education and entertainment programming. Content is developed and produced using pre-school specialists and the Website and Interactive television offers educative and entertaining content beyond the TV programmes.

The schedule on CBeebies is the same every weekday, with a different schedule (often with different programmes) at the weekends. Between 15:00 and 18:00 on weekends, all programmes are signed.

Michael Carrington is the current Creative Director for CBeebies, responsible for commissioning all content across BBC Television, On-line, Interactive TV, and Radio. ^[3].

CBeebies Radio broadcasts for 3 hours everyday on BBC 7 from 14:00 to 17:00.

Contents 1 CBeebies programming 2 Bedtime hour 3 Presenters 4 Songs 4.1 Regular songs 4.2 Occasional songs 4.3 Seasonal songs 5 Awards 6 References 7 External links

[edit] CBeebies programming

Examples of past and present programmes on CBeebies include:

64 Zoo Lane [4] Andy Pandy [5] Angelmouse Balamory [5] Becky and Barnaby Bear [5] Big Cook, Little Cook [5] Bill and Ben [4] Bits and Bobs [5] Bob the Builder [5] Bobinogs [5] Boo! [4] Boogie Beebies [5] Brum [5] Charlie and Lola [6] Clifford's Puppy Days [5] Clifford the Big Red Dog [4] Come Outside [5] Doodle Do [5] Ethelbert the Tiger [7] Fab Lab Fimbles [5] Fireman Sam [5] Gordon the Garden Gnome [4] Higgledy House [6] In The Night Garden Jackanory Junior Jakers Koala Brothers [5] LazyTown [4] Little Red Tractor [5]

Little Robots [8] Lunar Jim [4] The Magic Key Me Too! [8] Muffin the Mule [4] Nina and the Neurons Numberjacks [5] Our Planet [8] Pablo the Little Red Fox [4] Pingu [6] Pinky Dinky Doo [5] Postman Pat [5] Razzledazzle [5] The Roly Mo Show [5] Rubbadubbers [5] The Shiny Show [8] SMarteenies [8] Something Special [8] Step Inside [8] The Story Makers [8] Teletubbies [8] Tikkabilla [8] Toddworld [6] Tommy Zoom [6] Tots TV [4] Tweenies [8] Underground Ernie [5] Yoho Ahoy

[edit] Bedtime hour

Between 6pm and 7pm, CBeebies has a bedtime hour to help prepare children for bed. The programmes are calm, often involving stories, such as 64 Zoo Lane, Step Inside, The Story Makers and The Roly Mo Show. In March 2007, a new programme In The Night Garden debuted in The Bedtime Hour. It also features a celebrity reading a bedtime story at the end, in the tradition of Jackanory. ^[9]

The bedtime hour ends with a pre-recorded film clip of the presenters singing a lullaby ("The Time has Come to Say Goodnight"). In the past a song clip was also used to start the bedtime hour ("Bye Bye Sun, Hello Moon"), but unlike the closing lullaby this clip was not re-filmed when the line-up of presenters changed in early 2006.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Presenters

The core continuity presenters of CBeebies are:

• Pui Fan Lee ^[10]
• Chris Jarvis ^[10]
• Sidney Sloane ^[10]
• Sarah-Jane Honeywell ^[11]

Tikkabilla and Something Special presenter Justin Fletcher also occasionally provides links, and appeared in the presenters' Christmas song segment along with the four regulars. ^[12]

Previous presenters include:

• Sue Monroe (until March 2006) ^{[13] [14]}
• Nicole Davis (until February 2006) ^{[15] [14]}
• Eva Alexander (February to October 2006) ^[10]

Almost all the CBeebies presenters have appeared in children's programmes prior to presenting CBeebies — for instance, Pui Fan Lee originally played the Teletubbies character Po, and Sue Monroe voiced Tigs in The Shiny Show. ^{[16] [17]}

Prior to 2006, the links between programmes on weekend mornings featured not the regular presenters but rather a pair of animated characters called Bear And Butterfly (voiced by Chris Jarvis and Pui Fan Lee respectively).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Songs

CBeebies presentation throughout the day is accompanied by songs sung by the presenters.

[edit] Regular songs

• What's the Day?: Originally each weekday was divided into five segments, each presented by one of the original five "core presenters" namely Chris, Nicole, Pui, Sid and Sue. The start of each segment was accompanied by the What's the Day? song. Each segment was themed (for instance Sid's segment included "building and making" programmes such as "Bob the Builder", Nicole's included animal programmes and so on). Latterly the segmentation was dispensed with, except for the Bedtime Hour discussed below.^{[citation needed]}
• The Birthday Song: sung before presenters show cards sent in on behalf of their young viewers who are celebrating a birthday that day. CBeebies does not use Happy Birthday to You which despite wide public performance is purportedly a copyrighted work. ^{[18] [19] [20]}
• It's time for Lunch: Broadcast at 12 noon includes Eva, Chris, Sid and Pui buying fruit and vegetables from market stalls, preparing food such as sandwiches and eating them. ^[20]
• Goodbye Sun, Hello Moon: Broadcast until February 2006 at 6pm to mark the beginning of the Bedtime Hour.
• Goodnight: Lullaby broadcast at 7pm to mark the end of the day's CBeebies broadcast. ^[20]

[edit] Occasional songs

• Sid Says: a rap-style presentation by Sid, who tells the audience to perform simple actions (such as "Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, Sid says 'wave your hands'"). ^[20]
• Number Debut: This song was only ever sung 4 times in history by Sid & Sarah-Jane. It was a rap sung just before the Numberjacks about Sid getting his numbers in the wrong order.

[edit] Seasonal songs

• Happy Christmas: during the Christmas 2006 season, a segment was recorded featuring Chris, Sid, Pui, Justin and Sarah-Jane singing the 'Happy Christmas from CBeebies to you' song. ^[12]

[edit] Awards

• Charlie & Lola won the award for Best Children's Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2007 ^[21]

• CBeebies the Digital Channel was Highly Commended in the Best Children's Channel category at the Broadcast Digital Channel Awards 2006 ^[22]

• SpringWatch 2006 won Best Pre-school Live Action award at the BAFTA Children's Awards 2006 ^[23]

• Charlie & Lola was awarded Best TV Series for Children and Adults at the Bradford Animation Festival 2006 ^[24]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• CBeebies at bbc.co.uk
• CBeebies information
• CBeebies magazine
• EventsVillage - CBeebies Live @ Cardiff CIA