06-02-2024, 08:08 AM
Yes CBBC on Choice was essentially a forerunner to Cbeebies but with zero budget.
The links were done by a CBBC presenter and branded just CBBC. It was a 3 hour block of programmes repeated from 6am to 6pm (or maybe 7pm). Choice's opening time moved from 5pm when it started.
It was never really promoted and I don't think it even appeared in the listings for a while. Even when it did the individual programmes weren't. It had some really obscure shows, like Catapiller Trail though he most notable/interesting thing it showed was that it showed a Christmas edition of Play School on Christmas Day, something thats not normally repeated.
When the kids channels did launch, Cbeebies ended up sharing with BBC Four and the CBBC Channel replaced CBBC on Choice.
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CBBC Choice on Saturday afternoons was a very different thing. Think the idea was to provide an alternative to sport. The main programme was The Dog and Dinosaur Show which was programmes linked by an animated Dog and Dinosaur characters. These were live animated a bit like the Rats character that was on Live and Kicking and pre recorded so was, and looked, very cheap.
The thing it's most remembered for is that it repeated Rentaghost.
The two never co-existed. CBBC on Choice coinsided with the Stuart Murphy repositioning of the main channel, and of course it took over the hours that CBBC Choice was on for
The links were done by a CBBC presenter and branded just CBBC. It was a 3 hour block of programmes repeated from 6am to 6pm (or maybe 7pm). Choice's opening time moved from 5pm when it started.
It was never really promoted and I don't think it even appeared in the listings for a while. Even when it did the individual programmes weren't. It had some really obscure shows, like Catapiller Trail though he most notable/interesting thing it showed was that it showed a Christmas edition of Play School on Christmas Day, something thats not normally repeated.
When the kids channels did launch, Cbeebies ended up sharing with BBC Four and the CBBC Channel replaced CBBC on Choice.
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CBBC Choice on Saturday afternoons was a very different thing. Think the idea was to provide an alternative to sport. The main programme was The Dog and Dinosaur Show which was programmes linked by an animated Dog and Dinosaur characters. These were live animated a bit like the Rats character that was on Live and Kicking and pre recorded so was, and looked, very cheap.
The thing it's most remembered for is that it repeated Rentaghost.
The two never co-existed. CBBC on Choice coinsided with the Stuart Murphy repositioning of the main channel, and of course it took over the hours that CBBC Choice was on for
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