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CBBC programming during the day always stood out in the 2010s as it was never clear who it was targeting. Until about 2018 they mainly showed repeats of shows that weren’t in production anymore, looking at a schedule from September 2013 they had Tracy Beaker which ended in 2005, Copycats which originally ended in 2012 (before coming back briefly in 2016), and Bear Behaving Badly which ended in 2010 (and was repeated about 40 times during the school day according to its programme page).

In 2018 it shifted and they started showing whole series in order, I.E. a whole series of The Dumping Ground would air over a few days, probably to create a boxset on iPlayer, but after COVID it seems they’ve reverted back to showing multiple programmes during the day, although, in the morning at least, there does seem to be an educational backbone (Operation Ouch, Horrible Histories, Deadly 60 etc.)