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I assume the plan is still for you be cbbc channel to move online. I do wonder if they’ll go back to my childhood of a cbbc one in the afternoons and possibly a cbbc two block in the morning.

I do worry children are missing out on that “watch together” experience we all had when we were younger. I can remember talking at school the next day about programmes we watched then the excitement building and guessing what we think would happen next. I remember the demon headmaster (the original series) being one we spoke about. If you’re just picking and streaming people may be a different points and those opportunities to discuss breakdown.

Looking at it as a teacher point of view, it is actually useful with helping children with their discussion skills, forming arguments as well as making them have to remember what’s happened.

Also with a dedicated block, you get exposed to a variety of programming you may never select to watch. I remember as a kid you’d have gameshows, cartons, art programmes, wildlife, news round and blue Peter.

It’s something I think we are loosing with this push for streaming. People are experiencing less and less variety as they often stick with the same sort of things and even as adults we are missing rhat comint together experience.

We've had this "Kids programmes returning to afternoons on BBC1/ITV1" discussion many a time at this point.

There is absolutely no chance of the BBC changing it's very successful afternoon schedule on BBC1 to accommodate children's programmes, something they want to move away from it's linear schedules. If there is going to be a linear presence, it will be similar to what ITV are doing with CITV at the moment, tucked away during mornings on BBC2.