I was there for peak CITV

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So I thought I would give my opinions on the recent closure of CITV… and here they are. In this video I talk about what I remember from when I used to watch, and also how i feel about it closing.
*Edit* I had originally put in a clip of press gang but had to delete it.

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@5340robert Год назад

I was a CITV fan between around 1992-2001. CITV was always cooler than CBBC in my opinion. CBBC felt like more school at times.

@michaelweech6432 Год назад

Yes I heartily concur that CITV was cooler (CBBC’s demise should be 2025) [all the good programs that were on CBBC, like Henry’s Cat, PC Pinkerton, SuperTed, Fantastic Max, Albert the Fifth Musketeer, ThunderCats, TMNT, Visionaries and the Poddington Peas, as well as Incredible Games - and shows by William Hanna and Joe Barbera - like the Flintstones, the Smurfs, Yogi Bear, Penelope Pitstop, stuff with Dick Dastardly & Muttley, the All-New Popeye Show, Pirates of Dark Water, the Funky Phantom, Goober & the Ghost Chasers, Inch High Private Eye, Heathcliff & Marmaduke, the Hair Bear Bunch and the Real Adventures of Johnny Quest - should have been on CITV]. I remember the Magic Roundabout being on Channel 4, as well as CBBC (like CITV, Channel 4 was a cooler channel, than CBBC, as I like to imagine the 51 year old feature movie ‘Dougal and the Blue Cat’ being on Channel 4, than BBC), although BBC was the only channel on UK TV, when the character Andy Pandy made his debut (when the 2000s remake came out, the writers were possibly *used to* said character being on the BBC, hence made it a CBBC show). Another show I thought of (would have been better seeing her on CITV) is Maddie Moate’s ‘Do You Know’ (again, in that I always preferred CITV, let alone Channel 4, to CBBC) [unfortunately, I couldn’t see her being on Channel 4, when she seems to be a hermit to CBBC, by never having appearances on anything on ITV]. Just remembered *another* cartoon that would have been better on CITV, than CBBC - X-Men TAS. Heck, Scooby Doo (one of the cartoons made by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera) was on CITV, so I don’t get why most of their *other* shows were on CBBC. Just remembered *another* animated character, who’d have been better on CITV, than CBBC - Fievel (yes, Steven Spielberg’s anthropomorphic mouse, voiced by child actor Philip Glasser) [especially when said mouse is owned by Amblin Entertainment, whose animated shows were all on CITV].

@mhemingway5790 Год назад

Couldn’t agree more, I’d only flick over to CBBC to check what they had

@frankiewilde7791 Год назад

Me and my sisters mainly watched CBBC for Byker Grove and Grange Hill and the rest of the time was was spent on CITV. Used to love shows like Zzzap, Knightmare, Funhouse. Couldn't wait to get home from school. Great times.

@5340robert Год назад

@frankiewilde7791 Byker Grove was good. Grange Hill scared me abit when I was younger

@michaelmcdonald2348 Год назад

@@michaelweech6432 the original (and best) scooby doo were regularly on BBC in the 70's and 80's

@Rich.Aardvark Год назад

Peak CiTV was your mate walking around a green room wearing a stupid helmet while shouting instructions at him so he doesn't fall down and make believe ravine.

@Spindler2007 Год назад

CITV was always something I looked forward to watching when I was a kid back in the 90s as there were so many great shows like Mike and Angelo, ZZZap!, Count Duckula, Art Attack and many others. There were even great game shows on like Fun House, Finders Keeper and my most favourite of all, Terror Towers. It is a shame that CITV is now gone but luckily, thanks to the glories of the internet, I can look up these old programmes I enjoyed all those years ago and enjoy watching them all over again. 🙂

@SkytreeTV1 Год назад

Well put! I remember as a kid thinking "where did the CITV studio with a presented go?" when I was around 9 and at that point, it died for me. They had the odd good shows but the replacements were just subpar. CBBC is still making an effort and it's good to see and with CITV closing, it may be a cautionary tale for CBBC and they may very well save it.

@jonkasonic Год назад

Yeah indeed,that's what I am thinking, maybe see how citv goes, especially after what happened with BBC 3

@SkytreeTV1 Год назад

@jonkasonic It feels like it will be unless there'd be some kind of major concession in return such as a proper meaningful daily slot on BBC One/Two. Part of me would honestly love to see Blue Peter in a slot on a Sunday evening on BBC One just before Antiques Roadshow!

@michaelmcdonald2348 Год назад

in vision continuity seemed to follow on citv after it had been dropped by the itv contractors. it seemed a shame as apart from the interviews and features you felt they were a companion who was watching along with you, even if that wasn't the case.

@FrenchFriesrGood Год назад

I was literally born 2 months after the CITV Channel launched And at least CITV did Something for their 30th anniversary and aired classic Programmes for a weekend in 2013

@timgoodwin4424 Год назад

My era of Citv was 1999-2004 from Gas Street. I felt by 2005 before the channel that Citv was a shell of what it was and by the time the channel launched it was showing only repeats and imports.

@StuartVallantine Год назад

Peak CITV for me was from 1985 to 1992, many of which for the reasons underpinned in this video. I have a lot of love for the original Thomas the Tank Engine series, Wind In The Willows, Thames Television's updating of The Sooty Show, Round The Bend, and Gilbert's Fridge. It is no coincidence that its star began to wane once most of the individual ITV franchises became ITV plc.

@jonkasonic Год назад

Round the bend! That was a brilliant show. Made by the same people ss spitting image. I've been watching a bit of Gilbert's fridge recently too

@andyhall109 Год назад

Knightmare, Fun House, Star Fleet... you'll be missed. RIP CITV

@bluefrogTV_ Год назад

Great video! Unfortunately I was born just before the CITV Channel launched so I never really quite got to experience 'peak CITV'. Occasionally they'd rerun a few old programmes (I remember ZZZap! being on the CITV Channel, Fun House on Challenge, and The Trap Door on Pop which I don't remember lasting long at all) but other than that, there wasn't really much to it. Did love Jungle Run though. I think the closest you've got to getting peak CITV back and making it appeal to young (uncultured) people, was the Old Skool Weekend. The channel's highest viewing-figures to date was an episode of Danger Mouse, so I don't understand why they didn't do it again, even for their 40th anniversary which is quite a huge milestone! At-least a fast channel on ITVX? It would be something I'd actually use it for, lemme tell you.

@jonkasonic Год назад

Yeah, it's nuts to think that something that was once flying high was reduced to what citv became. I mean ITV is a big enough company to be making its own homegrown content for kids. What made it special was that it was british, it was for our culture and sense of humour, and disney plus doesn't do that. You could have been an aspiring animator in bristol and got experience at HTV, or a writer or comedian looking to get exposure, and local tv was a way to be nurtured. Stephen Moffat did press gang, and Russel T Davis did Children’s ward, and we know what they went on to do. There is so much that could be on itv x of old content which would be a great nostalgia hit, but I don't get why we don't have an ondemand streaming platform from itv with new content because itv could champion that.

@bluefrogTV_ Год назад

@@jonkasonic They have actually added a selection of old CITV shows on ITVX, it's not much but there's stuff like Trap Door & MPAA, also stuff like Bug Alert & the first 2 series of Postman Pat. Annoyingly they've made it accessible for premium subscribers only!

@Giovanni_Team_Rocket_UK Год назад

i’m one of those people that CITV and CBBC has been around as long i have been alive. (nearly 40 years) I am very disappointed that both ITV and BBC decided to pull kids programming from traditional TV. It’s all about money and it’s about the demise of TV as we know it! It shouldn’t be so! The broadcasters think no one watches Traditional TV anymore… RUBBISH!! Yes maybe kids and adults alike go online and watch things like streaming TV channels. But relying on the internet for EVERYTHING is not the answer! If the internet suddenly switched off right now… you will have NOTHING! TV via a television set and a TV Aerial on your roof should remain a backup! But no.. this is the broadcasters and OFCOM’s BIG PLAN is to switch off all the TV and Radio transmitters in the country and move totally online. this should not happen and it’s a mistake! I understand things are becoming more expensive, including the broadcasters paying the bills for the electricity for all these TV and Radio Transmitters up and down this land! the broadcasters will be paying the same money to host servers in a data centre and paying for FTTB (Fibre to business) internet connections! it’s just a Fallacy and stupid! I hope many of you will agree with me.

@scottchristie6734 Год назад

Being born in 1996. I remember watching CITV on Channel 3 after school before it got it's own channel when I was 10. Suppose I watched 2001-2007/08

@andrewrunagall Год назад

I certainly was a CITV boy back in the day, I've always wanted to be on either Fun House, Finders Keepers or Knightmare.

@Dan_Blick1986 8 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for uploading these videos Johnny! I was very much a 90s child, although shows such as Knightmare and Fun House that started out in the ‘80s and stretched into the ‘90s, I was very much into. What absolute joy and NOSTALGIA watching this as well as ‘The Television Affair’ series that I’m working my way through! For me, it was very much 3:30pm CITV came on, until it was the soaps and then (to me at the time) the boring news. Would love to see a “Best of 90s” kid’s retrospective look back at the shows of the age sometime. For now, thanks so much for the escapism from today’s world with this video. Pretty much every show, I watched at some stage, so very much fond, fond memories! 😊 - Got to say though, Tommy Boyd - #legend! and great to hear the Sons and Daughters throwback right at the start!

@AdyReavill Год назад

I loved all the game shows on CITV when I was young including Jungle Run, Knightmare, Fun House, Get Wet and Finders Keepers to name a few

@michaelmcdonald2348 Год назад

Peak CITV for me was Knightmare. Sure there were other good shows, but that was completely original and the first 3 series in particular were great. And I was a young adult at that time.

@anandmorris 15 дней назад

Only a minute in and had to drop a comment on the programme Zzzap. I was only 10 when it first came out, but it felt like one big acid trip!! Other shows i loved were Harry's Mad, Knightmare, Dreamstone, Count Duckula, Funhouse, Art Attack, talespin, sooty and how 2. We were certainly blessed with these shows!

@EccentricGentelman Год назад

I was a CBBC kid, watched it every weekday and Saturday morning. I saw some of CITV in the late 80s and early 90s. But when I was 7 my dad took a job that relocated us to Holland for 5 years. My parents arranged for CBBC to be available on our TV but I missed out on CITV for this period.

@stanstansky5522 Год назад

My era was early 90s to early 2000s. Was always the highlight of my day after school 😁 CBBC had the most morning shows but CITV was the king of teatime Bernards watch was top tier

@SuperTed19021 9 месяцев назад

*Oh yes!* 😁💕 The original series that it. 😥 One of my faves as well.

@jaydaksy4094 Год назад

To be fair I was both because CBBC had the Rugrats, Dino babies, Round the twist, The queens nose, grange Hill & Byker Grove. Then Citv because of Their early years line up before things like Tiny toon adventures, Art attack, How 2, Anamaniacs…………. we really did have it good back then 😌

@matthewpayton Год назад

CITV was a part of our childhoods Johnny.

@karlg9354 Год назад

Im 40 now this brings me bck, I so miss the old days of such things as Knightmare, funhouse, finders keepers, the list goes on

@GryphLane Год назад

I was born in the mid-eighties and brought up in the TVS/Meridian region so was pretty spoilt as far as kids' TV goes. At least until the Maidstone Studios were mothballed/sold on. I remember and enjoyed all of these and more, many of which were either TVS or Thames productions of course.

@FhrattKhatt09 11 месяцев назад

R.I.P. CITV (1983-2023) you’ll be missed by most 90s/2000s kids.

@andrewgrant6516 Год назад

The Book Tower, Woof!, that one with the bicycle couriers, Dramarama, Alice's Adventures in Numberland, and all its T-Bag spin-offs, Into The Labyrinth, Paperhouse, Luna, Children of the Stones, the Snow Spider, Count Duckula.

@jonkasonic Год назад

I loved WOOF! I got a bit cross when they changed the boy to a different one but got used to it eventually

@cLeodnine Год назад

I literally didn't know Dom Wood was the host of Jungle run! I remember Chris Jarvis and Michael Underwood as the host in their own right. Blast from the past there! My Parents Are Aliens! I LOVED this show back in the day! Oh, and Zzzap! Not even going to go there! ❤

@markssmith77 Год назад

Did you not watch Art Attack? 😁 That was a favourite but I know how you feel about CITV, Tommy was awesome as a presenter!

@jonkasonic Год назад

Yeah art attack and was great, I forgot a heck of a lot of shows. I remember as a kid being disappointed when they took away the in vision continuity, I know it eventually came back but I was a little too old for citv by then

@SuperTed19021 9 месяцев назад

*Oh yes!!!!* Wasn't my fave but I do remember watching it. I was personally more into "Smart" on CBBC, and that was only because it contained "Morph". Anyway, how about "Sooty" or "Fun House"?

@CherryTerrier Год назад

We were all channel hoppers even as kids but peak CITV for us would have been throughout the mid to late 90s for sure, especially with Zzapp, Art Attack, Jungle Run and the like.

@drawntoicehockey Год назад

We only managed to get CITV as an all day channel in 2011 (= rural Wales + Freeview). We had a very poor signal for it off and on at different points in the late 00s but you couldn't watch it properly before 2011. I was 11 when it became permanent and I can remember spending a weekend with it on all day because I'd only been able to watch it at my grandparents' houses before then and it felt like a treat. My favourites were Jungle Run and Horrid Henry. The BBC actually aired Danger Mouse (the 80s one, I'm too old for the reboot) when I was a kid on BBC 2 after the CBBC strand finished

@SuperTed19021 Год назад

*My era* of CITV was 1993-2002, but I and my twin sister were much more CBBC kids. Used to watch much more of CITV during the SM:TV Live era (1999-2002). Before that, I and she had a few cartoons/programmes that we liked/loved, but there were mostly taped for us by family members. Didn't *actually* sit down and the watch the channel/flick between that and BBC1/2 live after school or on weekend mornings before that ('99).

@Antireality Год назад

Peak CITV was going to primary school in Nottingham and seeing one of your classmates turn up every now-and-then as an extra because they were in the Central Junior Television Workshop. You know what's funny? I remember one of them bringing in a piece of paper with a central television heading and seeing what I now know is a residuals statement. Although the payment was less than the stamp on the letter was worth those kids probably got better residuals than some Netflix series actors do now.

@timecapsule. Год назад

I was always a CBBC child and would sometimes flick to CITV in case Horrid Henery or My Parents Are Aliens was on.

@jeremiahinyangotu4023 Год назад

i also watched horrid henry on citv one time

@BrooksterMax Год назад

I was mainly BBC but always went over to CITV for Duckula, Knightmare and Trap Door which spring to mind. I have no idea how I knew when to turn over. I guess the Radio Times!

@SuperTed19021 Год назад

6:07-6:44 I *actually* pity those kids growing up watching CITV during the late noughties/2010s!

@19Link86 Год назад

I remember, when I was around primary-school age, I would get up around 4AM to watch Pokémon on CITV

@billpg Год назад

I'm almost 50 and I recognised a lot of the same shows as you. I'm happy that era lasted a couple of decades.

@Sam-zu5mr Год назад

As youve just shown, peak CITV is where Steven Moffett and Russell T Davies (writers of Doctor Who)- learnt to cut thier teeth in script writing. It didn't just entertain a generation of kids and inspire thrm as adults now. It helped forge the creers of many a show writing producer of today.

@bazblackadder Год назад

Can really identify with so much here. Very much the same as my experiences with the "channel" & its programs and presenters. Many great memories and a feeling of nostalgia and melancholy seeing it go Thanks, CITV

@bazblackadder Год назад

Obviously, when I say "channel", I don't mean the actual dedicated one in the post terrestrial TV years. It was just the best way I could describe something showing multiple programs, with studio activity in between, in the same time slot

@Calculon1712 Год назад

My era of CITV was from late 80s to late 90s. So many memories and so many shows that i enjoyed and still think about. ITVX has said there is high interest in getting 80s and 90s CITV shows up on the streaming site my worry is itll be put behind Premium subscription and certain episodes of shows wont get uploaded due to PC or insensitivty reasons

@tommy2cars501 Год назад

Another great video Jonkasonic, I was 5 when CITV started in 1983, now & again I would watch TCC (On Swindon Cable) or CBBC, Henry's Cat & Superted with Danger Mouse & Rainbow on ITV. We were a lucky generation to have the quality kids show's to watch on both ITV & BBC in the 80's & early 90's.

@tomcarter8604 Год назад

For me my favourite programmes on CITV were Fun House, Zap, Mr Bean The Animated Series and Knightmare

@andrewharland7727 Год назад

Your Citv was my Citv too. Loved it. Knightmare was a favourite. How 2 was great too and of course fun house. Brilliant. What do kids have now. Disney +. How awful.

@jonkasonic Год назад

Haha, yeah Disney + is pretty cool, so also are the other streaming services with their own content. CITV was just sort of regurgitating it and not really doing anything special. What made CITV great was that it was made for us. I'm not particularly patriotic but I have to admit that british humour and culture is unique, and that’s not something you can get from imported content. How 2 and nightmare was really cool, I missed out a bunch of shows

@stardustsquid Год назад

My peak CITV was late 90s and early-mid 00s with Zzzap, Art Attack, How 2, Grizzly Tales and anime like the first Pokémon series, Cardcaptors and Sonic X. I do vaguely remember they had a Watership Down series too in '99 but I was about 6 when it aired and I barely remember. There was good stuff on CBBC too like Smart, Arthur, anime like Astro Boy and Flint the Time Detective, Trollz, Rugrats, sometimes a few other shows here and there like Eureka TV and Watch My Chops. I do have a few tapes with a couple nearly full uninterrupted runs of CBBC or CITV here and there but they're between 2002 and 2005 and were mainly me taping Arthur, Trollz, Cardcaptors and Sonic X I will agree with you on My Parents Are Aliens, I could never really care for it and just tuned out when it was on and then just sat waiting for The Simpsons on Channel 4. I've missed CITV and CBBC for years because they've not been as good as they used to be for a long time from what I've caught when I'm at hotels for conventions so I find myself watching Pop instead but even that hasn't been as good as it was 10+ years ago.

@stardustsquid Год назад

God, this has definitely got me wanting to go back and rewatch my tapes, or old shows and even the ad breaks archived on here again Great video!!

@SkytreeTV1 Год назад

Glad I'm not the only one who's at a hotel at cons on a saturday morning just keeping the kid's channels on for nostalgia. It's became a tradition for me at London Comic Con these days!

@timgoodwin4424 Год назад

Funny that you mention water ship down as pizza hut had a promotion for that series whilst it was on citv

@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 Год назад

My experiences with CITV mainly came down to the fact that when I was younger, it was the only freeview channel showing old Marvel cartoons from the 80s and 90s at the time like X-Men and Spider-Man, not to mention it had more cartoons than CBBC (which at this point was airing way too many live action teen dramas and game shows during its primetime schedule for me to get into). I was already brought up with some of CITV's earlier shows like Danger Mouse and Thomas The Tank Engine on VHS and DVD anyway. Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids was my other favorite show from the channel as well. But when both Horrid Henry and Almost Naked Animals started clogging up the schedules, I tuned out and switched over to physical media instead. Looking at the channel now, it was already pretty much dying a slow death anyway following the 2013 rebrand as it lost more of its older and original programming and focussing exclusively on the same 10 Cartoon Network shows and obscure Lego shorts you can already find on RU-vid. Ok, I guess Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc is amazing (though I did already watch that when CBBC showed reruns), but the channel was already in a sorry state and it's probably for the best that it closed if ITV aren't going to care about it anymore.

@SuperTed19021 Год назад

*Exactly!!!!* My absolute thoughts. Children is 2023 have moved anyway into how they are receiving their content compared to even 10 years. PS: CITV from 2007 to its closure to me is just *cringeworthy* to even look at.

@rainbowpearlvlogsandanimations Год назад

Yeah… I’ll admit, a part of me wishes I’d been born ten years before I was so I could have seen its peak (I was born just after the channel launched, watched from around 2012-2018), but by ‘18, the only thing that kept me watching was the weekend morning block, which had at least some semblance of in-vision continuity links. Sadly, even that got scrapped and the block just became a set of cartoons with nothing tying them together, which I felt was all but the final nail in the coffin. It’s good that there is still content for kids available on ITVX, but it feels less like they’re trying to make content to truly immerse and inspire kids, more like they’re fulfilling a requirement. It sucks because we all know ITV could be making original, high-quality kids’ content, but they won’t.

@massiveprogressive9488 Год назад

I'm 35, so I was there for peak CITV. I watched a lot of My Parents are Aliens, but the only part I remember and has stuck with me since was a scene where Josh, the foster son walks in the house with his backpack and Bryan, the alien foster dad snatches it off him and goes "Haha, who's Adidas!?". Proud to say I very much remember all the greats though; Zzzap, Art Attack, Knightmare, Woof!, Fun House, (Original) Finder's Keepers, ReBoot, etc, etc

@ChrisHack150380 Год назад

Another great video! Thoroughly enjoying your content 😉 Oh yeah, and including the wonga guy from the envirofone ad was a touch of genius 😂😂

@WhoCaresAnymoreTho Год назад

I remember i first watched CITV back in 92 93 then it became a regular thing until about 2000

@Syncraticidio 7 месяцев назад

When CITV started in 1983, it rotated the presenter every month. People I recall doing it include Stu Francis, Rod Hull, Matthew Kelly, the Number 73 Cast, The Krankies, Bob Carolgees, Derek Griffiths and more I can't recall!

@EthanTheEngine7 Год назад

I was born in *IRELAND* in *2010* so I only had ITV3 and ITV4, and definitely after the "peak" ended, and the only place I know where I can watch CITV is at my grandma's. Although my favourite CITV show (and favourite show in general) is Thomas The Tank Engine. MAN, the older seasons (1-5) are super overlooked by the newer seasons (excluding S17-21). The show is currently in a reboot (All Engines Go) which I do like, but the classics are better. Also TUGS, that could be considered more than a kids show. Very underrated.

@WolfieVII Год назад

Fascinating video! I was born in 1992 so I'm old enough to remember a good portion of these shows (Fun House, Rosie and Jim, Zzzap! etc) but sadly far too young to remember the Tommy Boyd days. I want to say my era was probably 1996/7 onwards? I can vaguely remember a version of that logo at 2:40 at least, but it must have been on it's way out by then. Honestly I miss those days, running home from school to watch Zzzap! and Art Attack among other things. I was very much a CITV kid, though I'd occasionally check out CBBC out of curiosity. It's sad to see CITV go, but it's most definitely a shadow of it's former self.

@davidprice5563 Год назад

I suppose I could say my CITV was the same >coming home from school and seeing the sepia credits on Sons and Daughters, or the rolling credits on the Young Doctors - You knew Children's ITV (as it was known back then) was on its way.

@RobH1093 Год назад

I was a semi regular CITV viewer - it depended on whether or not a program I wanted to watch was on. I do remember watching it and have memories of a few shows, but the main shows I remember watching and enjoying were ReBoot (still my favourite TV series to this day), Lavender Castle, and New Captain Scarlet.

@muppetsretrofan8873 3 месяца назад

Although I'm American, I've researched CITV to learn more about the fall of TV. And I have to agree CITV seemed to be at it's peak during the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s [I'm a 2000s person but I always preferred older cartoons]. Engie Benjy is one of the best CITV programs IMO, the show had chaotic energy and dry British sarcasm. It probably helps the show that Cosgrove Hall were the ones responsible. I'm still mad ITV shut down Cosgrove Hall [note that they didn't even try to bring any 2000s Cosgrove Hall show to the states, they might have been planning to shut Cosgrove Hall down for YEARS].

@DoctorVision Год назад

I'm kind of a hybrid between the two. I'm old enough to remember watching CITV before the channel came along but not old enough to remember it having continuity links like CBBC. I remember stuff like Rosie and Jim and Tots TV - we had VHS tapes of them which were repeated endlessly as a kid - but then I also watched Thomas & Friends, Engie Benji, Jungle Run, Horrid Henry, My Parents Are Aliens, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids and I do remember Almost Naked Animals - only because my youngest cousin used to watch CITV round my grandparents' house - can't say I was a fan though. I was more of a CBBC fan however as the difference in quality between the two was palpable. We never had satellite as a kid so I was never exposed to many of the American shows - namely Disney - or a lot of the cartoons. The occasional times I did get to see the likes of Spongebob and Fairy Odd Parents for example was when I went round my Nan's house - which may explain my preference for British TV as I was exposed to so much more of it than many kids my age.

@SweetStevieAaron Год назад

I was born in 79, mate, so your CITV is about the same as mine, give or take. I definitely stuck around slightly longer than I should have into my teens.

@robertianhawdon Год назад

Great video. I was also around for peak CITV, mainly between 1993-2003, from their out of vision continuity to back when they started in vision again. I think this recent closure has finally got some people asking what has happened to ITV as a whole, and the answer simply boils down to the fact that it's one company, ITV Plc, calling the shots. Sure there's still STV in Scotland, but without a full range of regional franchises creating great content for the network, we've lost something that made ITV great. Edit: forgot to mention CBBC, and I feel the reason that's still holding on right now is down to the fact they benefit from licence payers to fund their output, so the ban on fast food and sugar sweets being shown to kids hasn't hurt them as much. However, if the licence fee is abolished in 2027, I'd fully expect to see CBBC (and potentially Cbeebies) moved exclusively to iPlayer.

@michaelmcdonald2348 Год назад

I've noticed most kids programming now seems to be computer generated and soulless with clean edges and vivid colours. The creative process seems to have been lost along the way.

@steveh31 Год назад

Just to be a bit picky LWT didn't really make citv (afternoon) shows as they were weekends and citv was on Monday to Friday so it was Thames who made most of the franchises shows. I am not sure if LWT even contributed to Saturday mornings children's shows.

@andrewgrant6516 Год назад

Tommy Boyd flying his spaceship. Those were the days.

@jonkasonic Год назад

It wasn't the only space ship he was in... this is from children’s channel, around 5 mins in ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2xRMhjKcF_k.htmlsi=20SrRdbtHyvKhS1E

@hairywelder5188 Год назад

I can remember when itv first started having a presenter for kids shows ( not sure if it was CITV then ) mid 80s I think . They had a guest presenter in a space ship or station type set and one of the early ones was a character called Marmalade Atkins who had her own show .

@blackbearish 11 месяцев назад

there was a kids show called get fresh i think it was. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Fresh

@BryanSteacy Год назад

My peak CITV was pretty much the last era they had presenters for and just before it got a dedicated channel. Just top notch stuff for me. I had to stop purely because I didn't have the channel available to me. It's such a shame it's gone, but it couldn't really survive as it just didn't connect with people anymore. A lot of people have blamed the demise on the internet, but to be honest, you hit the nail on the head here that it just didn't have a "local" appeal and was mostly imported shite. Also, WONGA!

@SuperTed19021 Год назад

*The world has just changed!*

@IsaaMation Год назад

As a UKTV nerd myself (from the US...funny enough), i have to heavily agree with all this info. Problem is, Children's TV has to adapt to the times...all the time. so all those shows you were talking about, were a part of their own time. the (not as pure) rubbish we got now is a part of our time.

@peteuplink Год назад

Wow! Tommy Boyd. I remember him from CITV and The Wide Wake Club. I thought he was great! 😄

@Glenn83100 Год назад

I watch Citv more than Cbbc before we got sky tv in 1994. Then I discovered Nickelodeon. It was on in the morning and afternoon unitl 7pm. Every day never look back.

@kerrygligorovic9758 Год назад

I really can't believe😒 that they have decided to close down CITV forever like this and moves all the shows to ITVX Kids as a streaming service, seriously what's the point of all this because there aren't going to be anymore cartoons/anime on freeview channels and this is a stupid decison.

@TheGerkuman Год назад

When I (born in 1990) was a kid (1996-2004) my brother and I never really defined ourselves as CITV or CBBC kids, since our watching of them was about 60% CBBC and 40% CITV (in other words, a Channel Flipper). I miss them both tbh, for different reasons. So many good shows. Edit: I think the era I watched was the end of what you would describe as peak era, which makes sense as you are an early millenial and I am a mid-millenial. The regions were starting to die but still kept making stuff until they croaked.

@RobinBlamires Год назад

Loved it. A well-rounded (and hilarious) analysis amongst a sea of pretend-nostalgia.

@benjaminwilson2945 Год назад

Did anyone else watch Jamie and the magic torch? It was great.

@EportChris Год назад

Neil Buchanan from Art Attack is a legend. He's now a guitarist in a heavy mental band from Huyton 🤣🤣🤣

@jonnywishbone4805 Год назад

That’s where he started in Marseille - a NWOBHM band

@SuperTed19021 9 месяцев назад

Saw a recent photo of him recently. And *my word,* how has he moved on from his CITV years!

@holomatrix Год назад

Remember reading about how they shutdown CITV the other day & it was the last broadcast, of which seemed to be an unrecognisable mess of presenters on their own channel (some Stephen Mulhearn guy?). 5:06 Tho being 40, and a kid of the 80's and 90's, THIS was REAL CITV. (Raggy Dolls, Button Moon, Funhouse, Woof!, Knightmare, Trap Door, Rainbow, Count Duckula, Mike & Angelo, Press Gang, Children's Ward, Rosie & Jim, Art Attack, Finders Keepers, ZAPP - tho even that felt a bit new) The foreign stuff that ever did come in was Transformers Gen 1, He-Man & Thundercats. The Saturday stuff was usually Andy Crane & Violet Berlin being in there somewhere, with Movies, Games & Videos & Night Train with Nobby The Sheep etc. Eventually WBTV with Animaniacs & Taz came in a fair bit later when Warner Brothers realised how much money could be made. Thank you Jonkasonic. Memories.

@marktmdyorkshire7610 11 месяцев назад

Can anyone remember a polar bear cartoon on citv around 1992? Reminds me if Christmas. I cannot find it

@SuperTed19021 Год назад

7:35 *Cause* ITV then had 15 separate companies all making shows by themselves on the same channel and thus had to compete to get their production aired. Now, ITV is one company/channel and has been more-or-less allowed to drop out of PSB/children programming since the mid-noughties. As they always say, "Two heads are better than one" or whatever.

@SweetStevieAaron Год назад

Why did you have to edit out the Press Gang clip? Surely that’s fair use and promoting it.

@geniusburger Год назад

I'm very sure Scooby Doo was everyone's CITV regardless of their age, couldn't get rid of it. Oddly, a lot of your touchpoints come from slightly before mine which is interesting and yeah, CITV was mainly paid for through adverts aimed at kids like toys and food, once they weren't able to shop kids on food anymore things dried up quickly. Also, Zzzap was trash in its day, still is.

@centureye Год назад

I remember CITV when it began 40yrs ago it took over Watch It The shows I remember were Your Mother Wouldn't Like It , Choky Thomas The Tank Engine

@sports872 Год назад

Out of Sight Zzzap How2 Art Attack Bernard's Watch Hurricanes 3,7,11 Oasis Woof Finder's Keepers Some great shows on CITV early to late 90's.

@jeremiahinyangotu4023 Год назад

10:56-10:59 i only bared watching saturday mashup, so i watch season 5 of the next step at the time 😂

@paulxx92 Год назад

Citv for the real ghostbusters and that was it for me I'm afraid

@veejay420 Год назад

I had a love hate relationship with CITV during the 90s. With the block only having a certain amount of time they could only show programmes for a certain amount of time, so whenever Bad Influence used to come on I was estatic, and when it moved over for Mike 'n' Angelo I wasnt much of a fan.

@SAMwise-ps6zo Год назад

where did you stand with the stonewall era of citv?

@EportChris Год назад

I remember having a thing for Daisy Dares from Zzzap 😬

@tgheretford Год назад

Fun Kids closed on the same day on national DAB due to advertising revenues falling and the cost of broadcasting increasing. Children's TV is the canary in the broadcasting mine.

@ThatRetroGuy2005 Год назад

I only remember 2013/2016 Citv Though my favourite 1990s Citv show is Tots TV

@PhilipMurphyExtra Год назад

Weirdly now that its mostly moved to ITVX, They actually put a lot more content on there.

@LeeStewart Год назад

I was a big Tommy Boyd fan.

@SuperTed19021 Год назад

*Aaah... old Thomas, Fun House, Tots TV, Rosie and Jim & Sooty with good ole Matthew!* 😢 *Don't make them like they used too!* "Danger Mouse", (despite me being too young to remember it when it was still on TV), was one of the *greatest* ever British cartoons/programme even ever produced, same goes for "Count Duckula". PS: *Where is the surprise now really?* Children have moved on too much in the past 10 years alone into how their get their entertainment content. And *you are done* if old repeats of "Mr. Bean Animated Series" is your channel's flagship programme. Also, *agree completely* that ITV starting dying as a whole when the regional companies slowly disappeared (1992-2002).

@97channel Год назад

I was there from the very beginning, right from Matthew Kelly as the first ever host in the original Network Control era. And I remember it all. I don't need any kind of retrospective to learn anything about CITV, I lived it. The rotation of guest presenters, then Gary Terza and Debbie Shore, Jeanne Downs and Scally, Tommy Boyd, the Steve Ryde voiceover days... and that's where I grew out of it. But I do know of what it became afterwards. I didn't watch it, as such. But I saw it enough to know. It's quite weird to think that my memories of CITV date back some 30 to 40 years. It really does all seem like yesterday. Of the various formats the continuity went through, I don't actually think that any one of them was either worse or better than another. I think that they each felt right for the moment. It was a bit jarring to suddenly leap from, say, Jeanne and Scally to Tommy Boyd, but they always seemed to get it right and not drive the loyals away. CITV was the powerhouse. And, I'll risk saying, way better than CBBC. That situation was flipped opposite with the dedicated channels, but with the afternoon blocks CITV was king.

@ericconnor8419 Год назад

I don't remember people being 'CITV' or 'BBC' kids I don't think that was a thing. I remember SNES vs. Megadrive, I remember rollerblades vs. roller skates and the Brit Pop wars but I thought we just watched whatever channel was showing the best cartoons I don't think I was really aware of channel names or branding. We just called it 1 and 3, we only had 4 in total.

@Acidonia150reborn Год назад

The Issue I had with CITV channel is they had so many more hours to fill up with shows yet never used them to air Older show they created and ownedinstead dod a Nick/CN and filled it with long blocks of the same 4 shows on repeat. When CBBC dies it will also be the End of TV block presenters in between shows altogether. Though once CBBC ends they be no Animated shows on the main 4 channels that are not Pre Schooler focused or the Simpsons anymore. CITV giving up happened just before ITV got Big Brother TV show. The same happened with animated shows altogether once Channel 4 got the same show 20 years earlyier. Yet again Reailty TV made TV much worser.

@davidcarrol110 8 месяцев назад

My Parents Are Aliens was dreadful even 20 years ago. The scene with the pupil making overtly sexual remarks about a Bill Gates poster is plain disturbing.

@jamesdelboy Год назад

My CITV was the same as yours

@SweetStevieAaron Год назад

Oh wow! Sons and Daughters! 😂

@LabaShabba Год назад

Yeah I was a BBC kid. I preferred Room Riaders over Fun House and It'll Never Work over How2 but I have to admit that Art Attack was so much better than SMart. I got such a nostalgia hit when I saw Zap, something I haven't seen or thought of for many years, so thanks for that and this great video

@jonkasonic Год назад

Room raiders reminds me of Finders Keepers. Art attack was iconic. Saturday mornings were so much better on cbbc for years, Dick & Dom in da Bungalow was probably the best Saturday morning show, but I think I was a bit too old to like that at the time

@timgoodwin4424 Год назад

@@jonkasonic BBC was better between 1987 and 1999 then Smtv became great by accident which was when I moved over to itv

@timgoodwin4424 Год назад

Have you got a discord Jonka? If yes, can I join?

@timgoodwin4424 10 месяцев назад

joined

@philllawrence1580 6 месяцев назад

Knightmare mun!!

@Redrally Год назад

You mentioned Fun House but not Knightmare??! What's wrong with you?

@SuperTed19021 9 месяцев назад

Funny also that hardly anyone mentions or remembers "Garfield and Friends" on CITV despite it's long shelf life on there (1989-2002, that's 13 years). PS: I bet this guy was too young/possibly not born to remember "Knightmare". I was born in 1990 and it finished in 1994, and thus I do not have memories of it. "Fun House" finished in December 1999, so more chance of remembrance for that generation.

@Redrally 9 месяцев назад

@@SuperTed19021 I remember Garfield and Friends, it just didn't leave much of an impression on me.

@sound.and.vision94 Год назад

Yeah i know that feeling, although a CBBC kid - the programmes I wanna talk about online are now "too old" for many of 'dem 'yoofs online - maybe you should create a discord server for us er "fogies" to talk about childrens TV from 80s/90s and at a push early 2000s ;) Also where was my trigger warning for Zzzap! - freaky show

@castle6742 Год назад

Citv is still on itv 2 not completely gone

@SuperTed19021 9 месяцев назад

Probably just there to still keep Ofcom quiet. They would drop *any* children's content if they really could.

@heggy_69 Год назад

I think what you say are the negatives of my parents are aliens are what I love about it

@benjaminwilson2945 Год назад

I’d say peak CBBC was around 2012 with shows like Sarah Jane Adventures, and Tracy beaker returns. As well as cool educational shows, and game shows.

@vikingsmb Год назад

citv kid myself, CBBC was for boring goody goody kids, CITV was just awesome spooks of bottle bay etc,

@benjaminwilson2945 Год назад

Count Duckula and Bernard’s watch were cool shoes that still hold up. Grizzly tales gave me nightmares though xD On another note It’s a shame that nearly all animation is flash nowadays.

@jonkasonic Год назад

Me, nor my oldest could watch Grizzly tales when they were younger, but it's a great format that came from precautionary tales. It also comes across as they had fun making that show too.

@jeremiahinyangotu4023 Год назад

I vaguely remember watching the end bit of the episodes of grizzly tales on nickelodeon (because it aired there, too) just before genie in the house came on (this was at like 3:30 am, but i recorded it so i could watch it just before i went to school)