The Fourteenth Doctor will read The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers on Friday 24th November. 2023. Doctor Who fans with long(ish) memories may recall that at Christmastime in 2009, you couldn’t escape David Tennant and his Tenth Doctor. The outgoing Time Lord was all over the BBC, even infiltrating the corporation’s festive idents between … >
New CBeebies presenter and Doctor Who fan George Webster was surprised and delighted by a video from Jodie Whittker on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday morning, September 28. The 20-year-old, who has Down’s syndrome, was recently announced as one of the new presenters for the BBC kids TV channel, CBeebies. 🚨EXCITING NEWS🚨 Our NEW CBeebies … >
Mother’s Day (UK, March 14 — you did remember?!) and it’s the Regé-Jean Page CBeebies debut Regé-Jean will read Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Halls and David Litchfield about a girl and her companion fox who travel together from a place of loss and despair, through uncertain times, towards the hope of colour, light and … >
Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker will read the story of an intrepid girl on CBeebies Bedtime Stories. Whittaker will read Ada Twist, Scientist – the third in a series of books written by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts. Beaty considers Whittaker’s narration of her book, “the best of all things!” WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? … >
Scottish acting icon Ewan McGregor, who is currently on the press circuit for Disney’s Christopher Robin, will read a CBeebies bedtime story on Friday 17th August at 6.50pm.
The BBC announced yesterday that it had commissioned a host of new shows for CBeebies, including a one-off production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest designed for a pre-school audience. It’s also ordered 20 episodes of Lochside, about adventures in a Scottish village (Balamory, anyone?), 30 episodes of recycling show Junk Rescue and 20 episodes of Baby … >
Click away now if you’re a dog lover, because this a sad one. Tom Hardy, whose beloved pooch Woody passed away earlier this year, will pay tribute to his absent friend with a National Dog Day (August 26) edition of CBeebies’ Bedtime Story. Hardy has been a regular hit for CBeebies, with kids and adults … >
The Guardian is reporting that the BBC is about to make the “biggest investment in homegrown children’s content in a generation” in order to compete against streaming services from the US.
Inspired by the triumphant and long-overdue returns of The Clangers and Thunderbirds – and excited at the imminent comeback of the amazing, the fantastic, the greatest secret agent in the world (Danger Mouse) – we’ve put our minds to the question… Which other classic kids’ TV shows could be on the list for a 21st … >
Smallfilms are a peculiarly British animation studio: industrious, creative and successful but always too tiny and quaint to ever be called a powerhouse. Initially a two-man operation working out of an old barn – with Peter Firmin making models or providing traditional artwork alongside Oliver Postgate animating these elements and (in a voice that was … >