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This article titled “Government to end dual ratings system for games” was written by Keith Stuart, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 10th May 2012 13.34 UTC
Blue Peter: has the BBC made the right decision to drop it from BBC1?
Children’s programmes are to be entirely expunged from the BBC1 and BBC2 schedules as soon as digital switchover is complete – to roars of knee-jerk disapproval from many. In particular, the news that Blue Peter will be shipped off to the CBBC channel has infuriated several generations of adults who have grown up with the show since its launch in 1958.
It was bad enough when they moved Blue Peter out of Television Centre to its new home in Salford and uprooted Percy Thrower’s lovely sunken garden – but now executives have decided the flagship brand is no longer suitable for broadcast on the channel that launched it. That’s bound to provoke an emotional reaction from an audience brought up on sticky-back plastic and erroneously incontinent elephants.
There’s no doubt Blue Peter is a national institution but is this nostalgia-driven fury all a bit pointless if you don’t actually watch the show any more? And does it matter which channel the children’s shows are on if, post-switchover, we all share the same free access to them?
CBeebies for the under-threes and the CBBC channel for school-age children both broadcast their fair share of original, good quality material – and there’s no obvious signs of a dip in standards for these digital-only shows. As digital television becomes the norm, we’ll presumably stop seeing the formerly niche channels as somehow second-rate and the broadcasting landscape will take on a new shape.
And arguably it’s sensible to put all children’s output in one place when viewing figures suggest most kids have been watching their favourite shows on the channels dedicated to them, with fewer and fewer tuning in to the ring-fenced children’s segments on BBC1 and 2.
Children’s programming remains in rude health at the BBC with original comedy and drama such as Russell T Davies’s forthcoming Wizards vs Aliens and the hugely successful Horrible Histories being produced this year. That level of investment is not set to drop once output switches purely to the digital channels, according to the corporation’s Delivering Quality First statement.
But will ghettoising children’s TV bring about the end of family viewing? Horrible Histories in particular became a cross-over hit with adults as well as children – but what person aged over 16 will specifically tune in to the CBBC channel if they don’t have offspring? Surely the viewing habits of parents and their kids will naturally become separated, somewhat destroying the Watch with Mother concept the BBC so used to pride itself on. It seems unlikely that a family would settle down to watch the CBBC channel in the hope of finding something they could all enjoy together.
And will younger viewers still make the progression into BBC1 or BBC2 viewers when they outgrow the CBBC offerings? My viewing habits were formed by staying with BBC1 after Blue Peter to catch the latest episode of Neighbours. Before you knew it I was sticking around for Wogan and EastEnders.
So what do you make of the decision to scrap children’s programming from BBC1 and BBC2. Are you fuming at this latest decision or do you think, in the modern TV landscape, it makes perfect sense?
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