Tom

A man.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@nevocated_ Saturday nights its always either the royals or 1970s nostalgia

[Tom @classyasacat]

@pheeyonce Even 5star, which is supposed to be their channel for younger viewers, is mostly the same as the main channel, all stuff about police and Piers a night after the main channel. Milkshake is probably the only thing they do specifically for anyone under the age of 50.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@pheeyonce Am i the only one who feels channel 5 these days is very boomer focused, even moreso than the other main channels? It's all stuff about crime, farming and how much "better" the 1970s were, not to mention they show Piers Morgan on Fridays.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@nevocated_ @foolyoldaccount You can tell too with the way CBBC's schedule has became very focused on non-UK programmes, this afternoon in the prime 4:30-6 slot was SpongeBob, Odd Squad (a live-action PBS Kids show that has relocated to the UK), Teen Titans Go, Pokémon and Miraculous Ladybug.

[Simon Underwood @si_underwood]

BBC “Creative Futures” decision for CBBC to abandon 13+ as a target age group two decades ago really was an all-time stupid call. I wish I had the names of the people in that group so I could drop them sarcastic emails today.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@elleturpitt @foolyoldaccount effectively leading to the BBC no longer bothering to really serve the teen market aside from a handful of shows, but nothing ever specifically for teens. The effort would have been much better used by investing into teen output for the already young-skewing BBC3 imo.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@elleturpitt @foolyoldaccount CBBC did a relaunch in 2007 where they cut of teen programming, Byker Grove was axed bc of it and Grange Hill underwent a failed relaunch that killed the show, teen output went to a new block called "BBC Switch" that ran on BBC2 on weekend afternoons but it didn't catch on…

[Tom @classyasacat]

@nevocated_ I'm sure 16 and 17 year olds would be thrilled at being able to spend their evenings watching Death in Paradise and Sort Your Life Out on their demographically designated BBC channel.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@foolyoldaccount SpongeBob has already been showing on CBBC (which in the past few years has been falling back much more on anime and American cartoons) and surely the audience for that show is moreso watching CBBC than BBC3. You could make a similar point for all the other CBBC shows on Three.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@foolyoldaccount LITERALLY this. BBC Three too has been introduci g repeats of like Death in Paradise and Mrs. Brown's Boys which are mostly watched by even older audiences than the intended target of 16-34 year olds. Earlier this year they were showing SpongeBob of all things.

[phee @pheeyonce]

if they’re gonna do this they should lowkey put more funding into kids tv rather than them watching brainrot slop on yt kids

we’ve lost citv, the disney network, pop as linear channels, cbbc slowly migrating to iplayer and streaming taking over linear tv in general

[James Boodt @JDBoodt]

Literally the EE ad, but instead of kids it’s people who can vote.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@UKPRES1 @daryl_millar Presumably that was the first edition to use the same theme tune they have never changed seemingly forever. It used a different theme for its first few years on BBC Two.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@russty_russ @daryl_millar The demise of CD:UK a few weeks after the CITV Channel launched probably gave them another excuse to go all in on cooking shows. Late in its run ITV was shoving SM:TV Gold to ITV2 for rugby, delaying CD:UK on ITV1 until after it and then showing an afternoon repeat of SM:TV.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@CameronYardeJnr 3 series in a year is tons, but for them to come in just six months in another level.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@CameronYardeJnr It feels like it's MasterChef, and if it's not MasterChef, it's Celebrity MasterChef, and if it's not Celebrity MasterChef, it's Christmas Celebrity MasterChef, and it it's not Christmas Celebrity MasterChef, it's MasterChef: The Professionals.

[sᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴛᴠ @superTV247]

I have never watched it. But I swear MasterChef is on TV every single week of the year

[George The Stourbridge Junction Station Cat @TheStourbridge]

National Hug Your Cat Day

For those whose cats are no longer beside them, may you feel their love wrapped around your heart today, as surely as if they were curled up on your lap

Those of us currently on active cuddle duty please report to your nearest human for immediate hugs.

[Tom @classyasacat]

@DailyNickNews A point could potentially be made about how Moesha eventually moved from Nickelodeon to Paramount in the early 00s. Tucker could have probably fit on the latter in the same way, and they wouldn't have had to be so scissor-happy on the content.