A while ago Nickelodeon (no, I'm not getting mixed up with Nick Jr!) were showing Peppa Pig at something like 4 in the morning - they just need to have something to fill the late night schedules.
Stick some of The Amanda Show on, then! I don't remember anyone who actually watched Renford Rejects.
Nickelodeon also reran episodes of Rugrats at 3:30 in morning. Why didn't they stick like CatDog or The Wild Thornberrys along with it?
A while ago Nickelodeon (no, I'm not getting mixed up with Nick Jr!) were showing Peppa Pig at something like 4 in the morning - they just need to have something to fill the late night schedules.
I remember when Nickelodeon used to close down with this:
I remember when Nickelodeon used to close down with this:
Stuff for teens on TV pretty much stopped around 2006, 2007 maybe. Everything just seemed to stop around that point. Byker Grove finished, Grange Hill got dumbed down, suddenly focusing on Year 7's, Dick and Dom finished too, and ITV pretty much stopped making children and teen's shows all together.
After that there is scope on the Disney Channel and some of the Nickelodeon programming (often from the Nick at Nite strand) that supposedly appeals towards older children, if they haven't been introduced to other distractions in the meantime
I thought the Nick at Nite brand wasn't used in the UK?
Never said it was.
Some of the Nick UK programming is from the Nite at Nite strand in the US, See Dad Run and Wendell & Vinnie were commissioned by Nick at Nite, and on Nick UK at least, are presented mixed with everything else.
That episode was only ever broadcast once in the US, I'm pretty sure it never even made it to the UK, I certainly never remember seeing it. And I used to watch Cow & Chicken all the time in the late 90s.
That episode was only ever broadcast once in the US, I'm pretty sure it never even made it to the UK, I certainly never remember seeing it. And I used to watch Cow & Chicken all the time in the late 90s.
I was Deffo broadcast by CN UK. I dont think CITV did.
Well if CN UK did ever show it, it was certainly out of rotation by the time we got cable at the start of 1999. All the times I watched the show on there, I never saw it.
Though by then they'd stopped showing Cow & Chicken in its original format (2 shorts, 1 skit and an I Am Weasel episode) and were just chucking shorts together randomly (and had already spun I Am Weasel off into a separate slot- well before it became a show in its own right in the US).
:-(
A former member
It must have been broadcast during 1998 then. I do also remember there were stopped original format, what annyonded me was it seemed like the same episodes kept on appearing
One of the people I was discussing the issue with told me that in the second half of the 1990s his parents got satellite because they were dismayed with the lack of good quality and appealing programmes for 8 to 14 year olds on the terrestrial channels. Interesting documentaries and factual programmes were getting scarcer and children's TV appeared to be migrating towards a younger audience or else was getting blander. He preferred to watch videos of CBBC and CITV stuff from the 1980s rather than what was being broadcast. His parents went through the TV listings for the past month to identify whether there might have been good programmes lurking in obscure timeslots but not all that much came up. An investigation of satellite revealed that there was a much better selection of programmes. Not just the children's channels but also Discovery Channel and National Geographic which were filled with many interesting educational documentaries.
His parents felt that satellite was worth the cost because they held the view that the quality of the TV programmes that children watched was more important than how many hours they watched TV in a week.