CITV Birthday Bash - 2003

[TommyCee123]

Memories......... Remember SMTV, MoM and HOLLY AND STEVEN? :( R,I,P CITV)

[Hulk2k6]

CITV died the day it got its own channel.

[CreeperLady]

I remember watching this, I caught it by complete accident and regretted not being able to record it, it's a shame they never made a bigger deal about the celebrations since it was such a one off event.

RIP CITV, you and the broom cupboard shaped my childhood.

[techguruuk]

Would you be so kind as to post the whole show? I'd love to see Jan Downs and Scally, the 80s CITV was my era.

[tabbyaboutroots]

One of my favourite parts of CITV when it had a studio has to be "Bag The Swag".

It may have been part of the horrible "all white" studio but it was still good.

[eVolutionToonami]

Anyone EVER remember Dexter's Lab being on CiTV?

[tabbyaboutroots]

I remember!

I was, and still am, a big fan of it.

I recorded this on VHS when it came on.

Also, this was during the time when they had the best logo for it.

[siriuslunar]

Hehe I remember that~

[englandftw111]

ahh the good old days compared to the shit they dish out now 0:23 that guy now works on one of themn late night call in shows

[TRWolf]

Any more? Id love to see Grotbags on CITV today :P

[tesandco]

They don't even have a studio today let alone film Grotbags in it, as it's all played out from a cupboard in Manchester. :P I do have the whole programme of this from 2003 buried somewhere, but no clips of her to hand no.

[BestOfCPBlog]

@tesandco Cupboard? Really?

[2hot4paper]

RIP CITV

[2hot4paper]

I think that should be WAS.

[jjtmovies]

citv is way better than cbbc

[AidanLunn]

re-phrase that - CITV WAS better than CBBC.

If you remember the Steve Ryde era of CITV then you'd agree with me!

[jjtmovies]

citv is way better than cbbc

[Sricketts14381]

I hope someone posts the whole Birthday Bash on YouTube, because I missed most of it. And I assume that there are others who missed it as well.

My favourite CITV era whould have to be the 90s.

[angelicMisha]

what you put in the video intro about CITV is so true. There seems to be loads of American cartoons on CITV now, what with CITV deciding to spend less money on their own productions. Shows like Art Attack, My Parents Are Aliens and other shows deserve to be shown to future gens but...ah never mind, at least they've got YouTube!

[AidanLunn]

it wasn't a decision. ITV have had to cut money everywhere as the government banned junk food ads and ITV are facing increasing competition for advertisers' attention from satellite channels.

[stewartlee]

I actually missed this show and I would of been really interested because I can remember the CITV from when I was really small in 1989. If anyone has the full show of this then please upload it on youtube.

[sjdean]

What happened, Central (Birmingham), used to produce CITV and produce all the kids programming. Then it was taken over by Carlton in about 1993 which spelled the end. The homogenisation of the TV networks and downgrading anything outside of Carlton, led to the old Central studios closing and moving to a smaller premises for news. Which meant the loss of quality childrens programming. Central Television, we miss you.

[AidanLunn]

Central NEVER rpduced all the kids programming:

Lets take Fun House (Scottish TV). That would be played out by STV at transmission, sent to Central in Birmingham via the BT lines linking each ITV station (not BT phone lines, special communications lines), sent through the CITV presentation desk in Central (with vision mixers, idents, announcers etc.) then back up to STV in Glasgow, through their transmission department and to their transmitters. and the same to all the other ITV regions

[sjdean]

Sorry. Slip of the tongue. I didn't mean all, but definitely quite some good programs, like Woof!

[jamesdelboy]

The bad thing about CiTV wa it wasn't live on a Saturdays and Sundays(beacame live at sometime in 1998)but there no afternoon service that was bad too but they tried out a afternoon service on a Saturday on ITV1 but it didn't last long

[ziggydamaestro]

Surely it Was live?

What about No. 73, No. 7T3, Get Fresh, Motormouth, Disney Club? Would've had to have been live to do the phone-ins, surely? I know TVS had some input (most of these were filmed in Maidstone studios), but the CITV ident used to roll before the start of most of them.

And what was that CRAP Warner Bros Sat morning show, stuffed with OLD cartoons and Tazmania, fronted by Yvette Fielding with Baljit?

[jamesdelboy]

Well the shows were live but on Saturdays and Sundays CITV wasn't done live on Saturdays in the studio but it was done in the studio on ITV2 in 1998 on a Saturday that is what I was trying to say

[jamesdelboy]

Well the shows were live but on Saturdays and Sundays CITV wasn't done live on Saturdays in the studio but it was done in the studio on ITV2 in 1998 on a Saturday that is what I was trying to say

[stewartlee]

I preferred that actually with the CITV town and before that with the old broom cupboard presenting with Tommy Boyd. But the programmes were better then.

[stewartlee]

I loved CITV in the early 90s with Harry's Mad, Knightmare, Tucan Tex, Hugo and Victor and more with Tommy Boyd. I remember when in 1998 the new look was about to arrive and I thought, yep, this is the end of a CITV era.

I used to love finishing school, sit on the sofa and watch CITV in the evenings.

[tesandco]

The relaunch in 1998 actually brought the children's strand back up somewhat, after it had fallen pretty badly during the mid-90s (declining programmes, all presented by cheap graphics, with everything voiced over by Stephen Ryde). It just wasnt to last.

[AidanLunn]

Id rather it last that way than have the 1998 re-launch!

That, imo, was the point where CITV went downhill.

[xZoey26x]

not to sound old cause i'm only 16. but dont u miss the old citv in 90s it was on from 3 to 5 good show and had wicked presenters. now it reapeat not on itv but a digtial channel with someone talking.