CBBC has been on the core of youngsters’s TV within the UK for 20 years, with the pair’s present Dick N Dom In Da Bungalow one of the crucial common to ever grace the channel.
It moved to BBC One after starting on the digital channel and ran in complete for 5 sequence between 2002 and 2006.
Now, the duo are gearing as much as take the programme on tour throughout the nation as they mark 20 years (are you able to imagine it?), and mirrored on the ‘golden period’ of children’ TV that they had been a large a part of to Metro.co.uk.
Dom reminisced concerning the magical interval of youngsters’s tv within the early 2000s, sharing: ‘CBBC rebranded as a digital channel, and had the inexperienced bug icons, Tracy Beaker, Bamzooki, Raven, all these wonderful programmes.
‘It was a golden period of children’ TV. Previous to that, it wasn’t nearly as good and now it’s sort of very a lot a fading factor. Children TV in the best way that we’re all speaking about it, that’s when it actually hit a peak.’
As they get able to have fun the large milestone, the community that made them a family title is getting ready to alter into one thing barely totally different.
Director Basic Tim Davie outlined plans to show CBBC into an internet channel by 2025, explaining youthful audiences are turning to stream channels comparable to Netflix and Plus.
Dick stated of the information: ‘We put a remark about it on social media. You understand, the factor is, nowadays, youngsters don’t watch tv and it's a true truth. Nevertheless a lot we’re all very unhappy that the TV channel is closing and logging on.
‘Youngsters at that age don't placed on the tv, they watch every little thing on gadgets. For CBBC it’s in all probability an excellent factor as a result of they’ll find yourself getting extra viewers doing it that approach. Clearly, for us lot that keep in mind the nostalgia that we had been simply speaking about? It looks like a tragic second as a result of it’s our childhood closing you understand, and transferring on to the longer term,’ Dick stated.
Dom agreed the plans will not be ‘a nasty factor’ and added: ‘A very powerful factor is that CBBC proceed to as at all times have that to make nice content material and when you’ve obtained good reveals, youngsters will discover them.
‘When [In Da Bungalow] began, it had no viewers and it was on a digital channel that hardly anybody watched as a result of it simply began. As a result of it was, I'd say good, individuals discovered it as a result of they talked about it in the identical approach that individuals these days.’
He concluded: ‘If it’s good content material, CBBC will proceed and it'll at all times be that it’s not going. It’s simply altering platforms.
However Dick thinks there'll ‘by no means’ be a present like theirs once more, because of a change in viewer habits amongst youthful audiences.
‘You’ll by no means discover a present like Da Bungalow once more that’s three hours lengthy,’ the presenter stated. ‘Children devour in bite-sized chunks now like TikTok and all that enterprise.
‘They need quick and quick. I don’t suppose they’d sit there on a Saturday morning for 3 hours laughing on the telly!’
You should purchase tickets for Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow’s twentieth Anniversary tour right here.
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