And on today’s edition of the Fluffy Bunny Blog we have…

The woman in Rotherham who has had a laminated pelvic floor laid.

A gay hairdresser from just outside of Bristol who repeatedly washed his penis in Vidal Sassoon and ended up with a split end.

The young Cornish mother of sixteen who has had her benefits stopped but been sponsored as a cow by a local farmer. Getting 8 pints a day out of her.

Cleaners at the Download Festival have told stories of the white camp toilets. Apparently one of them opened a door and realised they all had a big job on their hands.

Anywho… on with the show.

The BBC has announced that they are killing off afternoon kids programmes on BBC1. How sad. How many years did you spend coming home from school at 3.30 and popping on the television to watch Phillip Schofield (with Gordon the Gopher), Andy Crane (with Ed the Duck), Andy Peters (with Ed the Duck as well) and occasionally Simon Parkin in the broom cupboard broadcasting all those classic shows.

Wandering home wearily from school aged 9 and flopping into a chair to be greeted by the music to Henry’s Cat or The Family Ness always set me up for a good evening. Throw in Blue Peter Mondays and Thursdays at 5.05pm (just after Newsround) and interspersed with Grange hill on Tuesdays and Fridays and you have an ideal mix for a good night in with the wind and rain pelting down outside.

Ooooh how about the Mysterious Cities of Gold or Thundercats.? Heart Beat with Tony Hart and Morph, the little plasticine creature that giggled his way through a short every week. The BBC always had the edge over ITV. Press Gang was ok, Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It and Round the Bend were perfect for my toilet humour fix every week. But I can’t think of too much else they ever had on that really kept you coming back for more. Jimbo and the Jetset – BBC, Simon and the Witch – BBC, Byker Grove (Why-AYE man, Spuggy, PeeeeJay, Dooncun, etc etc) – BBC…

…with two notable exceptions. Dangermouse and Count Duckula. Genius in little cartoon drawings.!

(whilst looking through a list of CITV shows for this blog I rediscovered a few things… How 2, Victor and Hugo, and of course a reminder of Sooty)…

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Hang on a mo… am I selling CITV short.? Looking through this list there are a LOT of good shows. Now I admit most of them were actually shown during the lunchtime slot (where the BBC had Camberwick Green, King Rollo, Bric ‘a’ Brac, Mr Benn, etc, badged as “On The Seesaw”) which did have some very good stuff on it. Remember Button Moon.? Our Backyard.? Cockleshell Bay.? Great stuff. Ditto with the Saturday morning shows, the BBC leading the way with Going Live and On The Waterfront but ITV chugging in a brave third with Number 73.

But the evening slots were sometimes better than I actually gave ITV credit for. FunHouse (now you KNOW Pat Sharp chased the twins naked through the place after filming), Art Attack (where Neil Buchanan really gave Tony Hart a damn good run for his money), Children’s Ward (Casualty with shorter words, a lack of gore and no cleavage), Emu (in that very camp pink windmill), Finders Keepers (the ONLY TV show that allowed kids to search for hardcore porn without having to put their parent’s stuff back afterwards), Marmalade Atkins (remember her.? Naughty school girl…. oooh err missus.!) and of course the fantastic Trap Door (Beeeeeerk… where’s my dinner.?).

So there you have it. Ok the decline in standards of kids TV is rather sad, the tripe that gets shown nowadays is very poor, usually American, repeats. I can sit and happily watch olden day childrens TV but now the stuff that TV companies push out of their varied bottoms is awful. Shockingly bad.

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