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Well the closure of CITV is a topic on Newsnight tonight. With Philippa Forrester to talk about the future of children's TV.
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(21-08-2023, 10:35 PM)eyeTV Wrote: Well the closure of CITV is a topic on Newsnight tonight. With Philippa Forrester to talk about the future of children's TV.
It’s funny how the entire media missed that it was reported it was closing months ago and have only just noticed now
Presumably it was a busy news day when it was announced earlier in the year
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CITV hasn't made an original programme in years, surly that would have been more important in the future of children's TV.
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(21-08-2023, 10:45 PM)Milkshake Wrote: CITV hasn't made an original programme in years, surly that would have been more important in the future of children's TV.
If you mean in terms of production, then the ITV Kids production unit made its last show in 2007.
But they’ve had an influx of commissions specifically for the channel in recent years due to the YACF. None of the commissions seemed to last more than 1-2 series though even with shows like HOW and Don’t Unleash The Beast which ITV somewhat tried to promote.
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Is Philippa Forrester an American now?
I see Newsnight used clips of various shows including Wac-a-Day. That would have been a TV-AM programme rather than a CITV one, wouldn't it?
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(21-08-2023, 11:32 PM)Nobby Wrote: Is Philippa Forrester an American now?
I also thought that when she started speaking, but then changed accent later in the interview. It was all rather odd.
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Wikipedia claims 2 series of 520 episodes of the revived series of How have been commissioned. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that's inaccurate...
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(21-08-2023, 11:32 PM)Nobby Wrote: Is Philippa Forrester an American now?
I see Newsnight used clips of various shows including Wac-a-Day. That would have been a TV-AM programme rather than a CITV one, wouldn't it?
I seem to remember reading somewhere TV-am had farmed out children's TV production at some point, and Wacaday was effectively an indie production for TV-am, or at least that was the case towards the end of TV-am's life.
But yes, Wacaday (as was the Wide Awake Club) wasn't a Children's ITV programme, it was a TV-am programme. But again this may be a "common" mistake because everybody would have just thought/assumed TV-am was a programme on ITV, as that's how it was often presented in TV Times and what not.
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(22-08-2023, 12:26 AM)WillPS Wrote: Wikipedia claims 2 series of 520 episodes of the revived series of How have been commissioned. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that's inaccurate...
It should be 10 episodes for each series of the revival.
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(21-08-2023, 11:32 PM)Nobby Wrote: Is Philippa Forrester an American now?
Well doing a look over on Wikipedia it mentions the following if this helps:
Quote:In 2015, Forrester moved with her family to Wyoming, US to support her husband's work with National Geographic magazine.
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The citation that is linked is to a 2020 Telegraph* article that Forrester wrote on moving to the US permanently.
*Paywall warning, although it is archived at Archive Today (archive.ph). I'll let you do that yourself if one may wish.
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