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Act your age, not your channel number

Andrew Mickel


BBC Four has an uncanny ability to show kids' TV under the guise of cultural history. Why don't they just go the whole hog and have a revamp?

Published on May 21, 2007

BBC Four always show kids' TV for no particular reason; now they're having an entire season of it. Why not just have a revamp, whilst keeping that intellectual edge?

7pm World News Wacaday
News from a wacky international perspective. Timmy Mallett reports from the frontline in Basra. Viewers of a sensitive nature may wish to look away as he and Magic are caught in Sunni-Shia crossfire. Utterly brilliant!

7.20pm Stonyfacedvision
The Chuckle Brothers try and dispel the inaccurate urban myth that they are actually father and son by frantically pointing at their actual father and repeatedly shouting at the camera ‘the clue's in our f**king name, you bunch of f**king f**knuggets’.

7.30pm Strictly Boogie Beebies
Having scored full marks from all judges during the Airport Boogie last week, Boogie Pete and his dance partner Anton Du Beke face a more challenging time during the Bug-A-Lug.

8pm Balamory Blue
Middlebrow police spin-off. Recently promoted DCI Josie Jump investigates a case of domestic abuse at Archie’s castle, but is all what it seems? Meanwhile, PC Plum wakes up in bed with that big-faced one in a wheelchair off of Balamory that looks like Michelle from Big Brother 5 in an ill-conceived programme crossover.

9pm Hitler in the House
JK and Joel present as two kids try and hide the eponymous genocidal maniac in their house from Dad. Can they prevent Adolf from annexing the bathroom and walk away with some really ace prizes?

9.30pm Thirty Years Older
Nicky Hambleton-Jones tries to make Michaela Strachan look more like her actual age with injections of spite and regret. Dietician Keith Miller is also on hand to dispense some valuable oxidant advice.

10pm F*** Off, I’m A Hideous Half-Boy Half-Aardvark ‘Thing’

Confrontational documentary. Hideous half-boy half-aardvark ‘thing’ Arthur tries to find solace in a world where everyone acts like normal human beings, when they’re actually anthropomorphized hellbeasts that obviously only exist because people are hard to draw.

10.30pm In the Newsnight Garden

With BAe facing growing criticism over the financial viability of the Ninky Nonk II, Jeremy Paxman asks: could Wakka Pakka’s inability to count over five be the problem?

11.20pm Mark Lawson Meets…Tracy Beaker
Interview series. The curly-haired orphan explains why her parents couldn’t stand to keep the screeching girlchild any longer, and why it’s quite obviously not their fault she’s in a foster home, given what an awful, awful, awful person she is. Hopefully features lots of footage of her crying.

Midnight-1am BBC Four Bedtime Hour: Muffing the Mule
Attempt to capture the late night wanking audience, using the cheapest kid’s TV joke known to man. Followed by Jackoffanory: Myleene Klass holds up pages from Maxim's Little Black Book.

 

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Re: Act your age, not your channel number
Posted By JiminyJetson 1 May 21, 2007 12:33:20 PM

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Re: Act your age, not your channel number
Posted By sarahofthedead 1 May 21, 2007 04:40:45 PM

While I think of it -- Andrew, In The Night Garden isn't that scary. In The Newsnight Garden, however, made me laugh till it hurt.

Re: Act your age, not your channel number
Posted By garlicsmack 1 May 21, 2007 06:35:02 PM

Oh Sarah, yes it really is that scary. You haven't seen a episode yet with the billowy quilty folk that live in the woods. Brrrr. It's no Boobah, I'll grant you that, but still the stuff of pee-your-pants night terrors.
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