CBeebies

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CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children under seven years of age. 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.

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. The schedules change each month and last for the entire month.

Michael Carrington is the current Creative Director for CBeebies and is editorially responsible for all programming on the channel. [2]

[edit] CBeebies programming

Examples of programmes on CBeebies include:

• 64 Zoo Lane
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• Balamory <ref name="TVC" />
• Becky and Barnaby Bear <ref name="TVC" />
• Big Cook, Little Cook <ref name="TVC" />
• Bill and Ben
• Bits and Bobs <ref name="TVC" />
• Bob the Builder <ref name="TVC" />
• Bobinogs <ref name="TVC" />
• Boo!
• Boogie Beebies <ref name="TVC" />
• Brum <ref name="TVC" />
• Charlie and Lola
• Clifford's Puppy Days <ref name="TVC" />
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Come Outside <ref name="TVC" />
• Doodle Do <ref name="TVC" />
• Ethelbert the Tiger
• Fab Lab
• Fimbles <ref name="TVC" />
• Fireman Sam <ref name="TVC" />
• Gordon the Garden Gnome
• Higgledy House
• Koala Brothers <ref name="TVC" />
• LazyTown
• Little Red Tractor <ref name="TVC" />
• Little Robots
• Lunar Jim
• The Magic Key
• Me Too! <ref name="TVC" />
• Muffin the Mule
• NumberJacks <ref name="TVC" />
• Our Planet <ref name="TVC" />
• Pablo the Little Red Fox
• Pingu
• Pinky Dinky Doo <ref name="TVC" />
• Postman Pat <ref name="TVC" />
• RazzleDazzle <ref name="TVC" />
• The Roly Mo Show <ref name="TVC" />
• Rubbadubbers <ref name="TVC" />
• The Shiny Show <ref name="TVC" />
• SMarteenies <ref name="TVC" />
• Something Special <ref name="TVC" />
• Step Inside <ref name="TVC" />
• The Story Makers <ref name="TVC" />
• Teletubbies <ref name="TVC" />
• Tikkabilla <ref name="TVC" />
• Toddworld
• Tots TV
• Tweenies <ref name="TVC" />
• Underground Ernie <ref name="TVC" />
• Yoho Ahoy

[edit] Songs

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

[edit] Regular songs

These are or were broadcast at the same time each day:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

[edit] Occasional songs

As well as songs sung at the same time of day the presenters also sing their "own" songs from time to time on an irregular basis. These include

• Sid Says: a rap-style presentation by Sid, who tells the audience to perform simple actions (such as "Sid says, Sid says, Sid says, 'wave your hands'").
• 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.

[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. It also features a celebrity reading a bedtime story at the end, in the tradition of Jackanory.

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.

[edit] Presenters

The core continuity presenters of CBeebies are:

• Pui Fan Lee
• Chris Jarvis
• Sidney Sloane

Less regular continuity presenters include:

• Justin Fletcher
• Sarah-Jane Honeywell

Previous presenters include:

• Sue Monroe (until March 2006)
• Nicole Davies (until February 2006)
• Eva Alexander (February to October 2006)
  • On October 13th 2006, Eva, by this time heavily pregnant, announced that she would be taking some time away from CBeebies in order to look after her new baby. She continues to appear, however, in pre-recorded song segments, including the lunchtime song ("It's Time for Lunch") played at 12 noon and the goodnight song which ends CBeebies transmissions at 7pm each evening.

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.

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• CBeebies at bbc.co.uk
• CBeebies information
• CBeebies magazine