Well the show did need revamping seeing as the old look had been in use for 4 years- since Ant & Dec were still there! I just think they did a bad job of it, especially replacing the proper chart with the viewer voted "MiTracks" one. Which bore no resemblance to the actual charts.
It was a bit like the 2000 revamp of Catchphrase- all of the wrong decisions were made!
I agree on that and totally forgot about it. If it was a feature fair enough, but the fact that there was no reference to the actual chart was bizarre.
What was the reason the supposed revival of CD:UK that was going to be on Channel 5 never actually did happen? They announced it shortly after the show had finished and was going to come back by September, then it was pushed back to 2007, then it was said it wasn't coming back. If I had to guess it was because of Caroline Flack, who was going to be one of the hosts, starting TMi in the autumn. But I don't know.
How many of the CD:UK shows in different countries remain? I know there was a few that were done, in at least Austraila and America.
On the 2005 relaunch- turns out that it originally got a lot more viewing figures for the first few weeks, but then just started getting worse and worse.
Was flipping around last night and caught Disney Junior's Art Attack.
I noticed during one of the crafts it appears to be using some specially created "newspaper" which appears to be generated lorem ipsum text (look it up) rather than just some random sheet(s) pulled from a broadsheet newspaper which I think happened in the CITV era.
I also spotted on the EPG it was classed for whatever reason as Series 15. Which suggests to me, seeing as the original Art Attack ran for 20 series and that the format has ended up in Disney's hands, they don't have some of the original series (I presume the TVS episodes, the first four series) or if they do, they don't know about it...
Indeed, those reruns are what prompted it's revival. They were obviously popular.
I don't know if "revival" is the right word, seeing as new episodes of the show were still on ITV at the point Disney were re-running them. I think other European Disney channels were making their own versions several years before the UK's though (again, while the original on ITV was still in production).
I don't know if "revival" is the right word, seeing as new episodes of the show were still on ITV at the point Disney were re-running them. I think other European Disney channels were making their own versions several years before the UK's though (again, while the original on ITV was still in production).
Disney Junior rehashed Art Attack in 2011, four years after ITV dropped it. That makes it a revival in my book. Disney rerunning them is just that, re-runs. No different to UK Gold showing old episodes of EastEnders while BBC One shows new ones.