It's Wednesday, four days after Friday as we are officially out of the summer so a familiar tv program returned to our screens on CBBC although being 2025 it was viewable via other platforms.
First off, for good or ill - and I'll reserve final judgement on that - B P Presenter no 44 Hacker T Dogg was present on the show having been appointed just before the summer hiatus and appears reading the BP Fan Club site to had been a hit with its viewers even if there is a difference between the kind of presentation I grew up for children's programming and what today's children seem to expect.
Ours was a bit more formal, a bit more mature, example setting rather than getting down to their level, always on the go.
The other is the move to Campfield Facilities in Versa Studios, Manchester rather than Media City, Salford after the BBC moved out of BBC TV Centre at Wood Lane, London in an attempt to be less London centred.
Rather than having a single very large production floor it has tailored areas that are used to film portions of the show, so the makes have an arts and crafts corner , there is a main area with couch and space for invitees and areas for big performances such as the record breaking attempts that are part of the shows agenda for challenging children to try new things.
Portions of the show are being made available as stand alone streams "shorts" on Youtube reflecting whatever adults feel about device usage and children, the increased tendency to view things as and when they wish rather than the dash at 5pm to sit in front of the tv although it is obvious from the fan club some do even if they may type as they view it!
Capturing the Tic Tok generation is a challenge and last year the viewing figures for Blue Peter were up some 33% and some modernization is needed to fine tune the show for todays viewers otherwise it'll go the way of Record Breakers, Screen Test or Tomorrow's World that we so loved back then.
A relevant point was made by former presenter Radzi in an interview which was while it may be easier it doesn't offer the same grounding in presentation skills that he and others had having to do it live even if parts were pre-recorded as for many years Blue Peter has been a route in for would be younger presenters to get into presenting on tv.
A good thing on a challenge for Joel, going around a lap at the Silverstone racing circuit in a minute was some technical talk about the engines, the kind of thing during the 70's and 80's we had but did seem to take a back seat which fits in with more what 9 to 14 years olds may want to learn about and what they do at school.
On the whole it seemed to work and we'll just have to see how the viewing figures go as I'd love there to be a second show or maybe extra online material in the way we looked to each week.
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