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This is an archive of news about CBBC. Some links may no longer work, due to the transient nature of the internet.

MyCBBC social networking site for children breaks 100,000 user mark
From Media Guardian. Posted July 10 2008, 2.01pm
The BBC has said its social networking site for young children, MyCBBC, has reached 100,000 registered users in four months. By Jemima Kiss (more)

CBBC food show to encourage kids to stew worms, catch farts in jars and bake toenail cakes
From Media Guardian. Posted May 22 2008, 9.02am
CBBC is to make a 13-part food series called Gastronuts that will encourage children to stew worms, catch farts in jars, and bake toenail cakes. By Ben Dowell (more)

CBBC series to focus on deadly animals
From Media Guardian. Posted May 13 2008, 6.21am
Children's BBC controller Anne Gilchrist has commissioned a 20-part series in which Steve Backshall investigates the world's most deadly creatures. By Ben Dowell (more)

BBC Vision celebrates 100% subtitling
From BBC Press Ofice. Posted May 7 2008, 10.30am
BBC Vision has confirmed that it has reached its target of subtitling 100 of programmes on its main channelsBBC One BBC Two BBC Three BBC Four CBeebies CBBC and BBC News. (more)

TV presenter quits over fiancée's death
From Digital Spy. Posted February 29 2008, 9.31am
TV presenter Mark Speight quits CBBC show SMart following his fiancée's death. (more)

Mark Speight Quitting SMart
From Merry Media. Posted February 28 2008, 2.51pm
Mark Speight is quitting the CBBC show SMart following the death of his fiancee Natasha Collinsm who was found dead the their flat in London on 3 January. . (more)

'Sarah Jane' gets second season
From Digital Spy. Posted February 6 2008, 2.29pm
A second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is on its way to CBBC. (more)

Grange Hill is Axed by CBBC
From Merry Media. Posted February 6 2008, 2.22pm
Grange Hill has been axed after 30 years on CBBC. Anne Gilchrist, CBBC Controller, said the reason for the gates closing at the school was to seek "new and exciting ways of bringing social realism to the CBBC audience through drama and other genres". . (more)

New dramas to fill Grange Hill void
From Media Guardian. Posted February 6 2008, 2.10pm
Grange Hill is being expelled but CBBC has ordered a number of new dramas to take its place. By Tara Conlan (more)

CBBC actor loses unfair dismissal case
From Digital Spy. Posted January 18 2008, 11.21am
An actor loses his case after claiming that he was unfairly dismissed from a children's TV show. (more)

CBBC actor 'given warning before axe'
From Digital Spy. Posted January 17 2008, 3.00pm
An actor on a children's TV show was warned about his behaviour before being sacked, a tribunal hears. (more)

Actor Takes Ragdoll Productions to Tribunal
From Merry Media. Posted January 15 2008, 4.14pm
Actor Isaac Blake has took Ragdoll Productions to a tribunal claiming unfair dismissal after he was apparently called a "faggot" and a "bitch" on the CBBC show In The Night Garden. . (more)

Everyone at CBBC "Don't Like Kids"
From Merry Media. Posted August 22 2007, 12.16pm
Children's BBC host Kirsten O'Brien made a controversial joke during her stand-up comedy show 'Confessions Of A Children's TV Presenter' at the Edinburgh Festival by saying: "everyone at CBBC is either gay or childless and don't like kids.". (more)

CBBC hosts "don't like kids", one jokes
From Digital Spy. Posted August 22 2007, 9.58am
Children's BBC host Kirsten O'Brien jokes that "everyone at CBBC is either gay or childless and don't like kids". (more)

New Look to CBBC from September
From Merry Media. Posted August 14 2007, 4.15pm
A new look to the CBBC channel was unveiled today by the BBC - which will feature a new logo, a range of new programmes and brand new animated idents - all kicking off on air and online from September 3.. (more)

CBBC to focus on older children
From Media Guardian. Posted August 14 2007, 1.00am
The BBC has unveiled a new look for its children's channel to appeal to the older end of its target audience. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Flagship BBC shows guilty of inventing winners for phone-ins
From The Scotsman. Posted July 19 2007, 12.37am
THE BBC suspended all phone-in competitions across its radio and TV output from midnight last night after it emerged fake competition winners had featured on shows such as Children in Need, Comic Relief, Sport Relief and the CBBC children's music show... (more)

Rebrand for the CBBC Channel
From Merry Media. Posted July 16 2007, 11.27am
The CBBC channel will be rebranded with the new look and logo to be unveiled at the end of the summer which will see new programmes air on the channel including Escape From Scorpion Island and The Sarah Jane Adventures.. (more)

CBBC launch joint award with Bafta
From Digital Spy. Posted June 12 2007, 2.10pm
The BBC launches a new award with the film industry off the back of its film-making initiative, 'Me and My Movie.' (more)

CBBC launches joint award with Bafta
From Digital Spy. Posted June 12 2007, 2.10pm
The BBC launches a new award with the film industry off the back of its film-making initiative, 'Me and My Movie.' (more)

BBC okay with CBBC presenter's strip
From Digital Spy. Posted March 28 2007, 10.11am
The BBC does not have a problem with CBBC's Angellica Bell stripping for FHM, it says. (more)

Another CBBC Show in Phone Row
From Merry Media. Posted March 17 2007, 10.30pm
Sunday Morning Smile on CBBC is accused of cheating young viewers, days after the Blue Peter admitted a phone-in scam.. (more)

Another CBBC show in phone-in controversy
From Digital Spy. Posted March 17 2007, 10.52am
The BBC is accused of cheating its viewers of Sunday Morning Smile. (more)

Sherlock Holmes & The Baker Street Irregulars
From Merry Media. Posted March 6 2007, 4.42pm
Jonathan Pryce and Bill Paterson head the cast of Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars, an original Sherlock Holmes mystery written for BBC One and CBBC.. (more)

BBC and IBM create strategic alliance
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 5 2007, 10.26am
The BBC and IBM have forged a strategic alliance, following the signing of an agreement for a framework outlining several joint projects between the two companies.  One of the first projects will focus on applying state-of-the-art image/video search technologies to CBeebies and CBBC programmes. This IBM research system, code-named “Marvel”, has the ability to visually analyse images/video [...] (more)

BBC and IBM strike 'web 3.0' deal
From Media Guardian. Posted March 5 2007, 12.00am
8am: The BBC is to revamp online video searching for CBeebies and CBBC shows as part of deal with IBM. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Shaun the Sheep TV Show
From Merry Media. Posted February 6 2007, 8.25am
Aardman Animations character Shaun The Sheep is to to star in his very own television series for CBBC later in the year.. (more)

CBBC Searches for The Sorcerer's Apprentice
From Merry Media. Posted January 25 2007, 2.20pm
A boarding school set deep in the heart of the English countryside becomes the home of the ultimate magical adventure, as a chosen few battle it out to become The Sorcerer's Apprentice in a major new series for CBBC.. (more)

CBBC plans later bedtime
From Media Guardian. Posted November 15 2006, 12.00am
6pm: Digital channel CBBC could be on air until 10pm under plans being considered by the BBC children's controller, Richard Deverell. By Tara Conlan. (more)

New Spy Series for CBBC
From Merry Media. Posted November 12 2006, 2.33pm
Following the success of their last children's series, the Emmy Award-winning The Magician's House, and the Bafta-winning Spooks, comes M.I. High - an original children's series from Kudos Film and Television for CBBC.. (more)

BBC to revamp kids' channels
From Media Guardian. Posted November 3 2006, 12.00am
Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference: The BBC is planning a widescale relaunch of its children's channels CBBC and CBeebies, including a £1m-an-hour drama. By Tara Conlan. (more)

New Look Jackanory Starts This Month
From Merry Media. Posted November 2 2006, 10.27am
CBBC has unveiled the new look Jackanory, which is set to burst on to screens at the end of November which includes Sir Ben Kingsley narrating.. (more)

Presenters vie for Bafta Children's Awards
From Media Guardian. Posted October 24 2006, 1.00am
8am: CiTV and CBBC's hosts are in the running for the best presenter gong in the 2006 Bafta Children's Awards. By Jason Deans. (more)

CBBC Unveils New Look Jackanory Today
From Merry Media. Posted October 19 2006, 1.17pm
CBBC today unveils the new-look Jackanory, which is set to burst onto screens at the end of November which will see storytellers enter a magical word and interact with the characters.. (more)

The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC
From Merry Media. Posted September 14 2006, 1.53pm
Russell T Davies has written a brand new series for CBBC called The Sarah Jane Adventures. It stars one Doctor Who's most famous companions, investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith.. (more)

Phillip Schofield is Number 1 in Kids TV Poll
From Merry Media. Posted September 9 2006, 10.28pm
Former CBBC and Going Live! host Phillip Schofield is number 1 in a poll of the most favourite kids tv presenters of all time.. (more)

BBC's flagship children's channel CBBC in agency hunt
From Brand Republic. Posted August 24 2006, 8.08am
LONDON - The BBC is talking to agencies about a brief to develop a brand campaign for its digital children's channel, CBBC. (more)

Anneka Rice Returns to TV Screens
From Merry Media. Posted May 25 2006, 1.32pm
Anneka Rice, famed for her eighties programmes Treasure Hunt and Challenge Anneka, will be returning to television screens with a new ITV1 cookery show called Sunday Feast. The 48 year old will team up with former CBBC and Live and Kicking presenter Andi Peters for the live Sunday morning programme.. (more)

Blue Peter to be Renamed Green Peter
From Merry Media. Posted May 25 2006, 1.26pm
For the first time in its history CBBC's Blue Peter is changing its name. After 4,180 episodes and 47 years Blue Peter will be renamed Green Peter for one day only in a special programme to look at the changes that are happening to the planet and look at ways the Green Peter audience can help limit the effects of climate change.. (more)

Byker Grove Axed
From Merry Media. Posted May 12 2006, 8.04pm
Richard Deverell, Controller BBC Children's today announced that after 17 years, 18 series and 344 episodes, the next series of Byker Grove will be the last. The decision comes as CBBC focuses more tightly on the primary school age-group as its core audience, a decision born out of the BBC's Creative Future recommendations.. (more)

Yentob splits children's post after Sharman defects
From The Stage. Posted February 7 2006, 11.55am
Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director, has split the post of controller of CBBC into two separate roles in an overhaul of the department. (more)

Deverell named BBC Children's controller
From Digital Spy. Posted February 6 2006, 2.27pm
Richard Deverell takes up the post of BBC Children's controller; Anne Gilchrist becomes CBBC creative director. (more)

BBC reveal two to share Sharman's head of CBBC role
From Brand Republic. Posted February 6 2006, 12.02pm
LONDON – The BBC has appointed two figures to replace Alison Sharman as head of its newly renamed BBC Children's division. (more)

CBBC hires two for the top
From Media Guardian. Posted February 6 2006, 11.30am
11.15am: CBBC has appointed two people to fill the gap left by Alison Sharman's defection to ITV. By John Plunkett. (more)

Root in the frame for CBBC job
From Media Guardian. Posted January 31 2006, 7.20am
8am: Former BBC2 chief Jane Root has emerged as a late contender for the BBC children's job. By Jason Deans. (more)

Big plans for little viewers
From The Independent. Posted January 23 2006, 12.00am
ilent Witness, Bodies and The Vice aren't exactly the sort of directing credits you'd expect to find on the CV of a children's drama controller. Small wonder, then, that Jon East coyly admits the call from former CBBC controller Alison Sharman came "a bit out of the blue". (more)

CBBC: Putting childrens' feet first
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
After such a tempestuous summer, it should have been a big relief for the BBC to be able to focus on children's television and the relaunch on 3 September of CBBC. (more)