114-557: Spatz is a children's comedy series that ran on Children's ITV during the 1990s, produced by Thames Television and created by Andrew Bethell. The show originally ran from 21 February 1990 to 10 April 1992. The show centred on a fast food restaurant situated in a fictional shopping mall in Cricklewood , London . It was operated by two Canadians, Karen Hansson ( Jennifer Calvert ), Spatz International's self-centered European Co-ordinator, and Thomas "TJ" Strickland ( Paul Michael ),
228-448: A free-to-air channel owned by ITV plc . CITV, then Children's ITV, launched on 3 January 1983 as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 6–12. It replaced the earlier Watch It! branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio up until 1987, when Central won
342-565: A symbol of Palestinian solidarity , that appeared on the shirt of contestant Ali Bromley. Writing for The Intercept , Nikita Mazurov compared the action to George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , from which the series Big Brother takes its name, arguing that the editing of the episode represented a "key tenant of the novel: old media being edited and original versions destroyed, leaving no trace of any modification having taken place." The timeshift channel ITV2 +1 launched 30 October 2006, along with its sister channel, ITV3 +1 . It
456-524: A CGI-animated town of cartoon mascots. Books, magazines and video tapes were introduced to tie-in with the new strand. However, further cuts took place again during 2002, bringing CITV's total budget reduction to 25% overall at £30 million. Grace's experiment in introducing a 'stripped' daily weekday schedule to the strand inspired by American broadcasters such as Nickelodeon (where she had previously worked ) additionally failed, after initially increasing viewership. Despite its cutbacks and falling ratings,
570-435: A Celebrity: Extra Camp ; original drama such as the third and fourth series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl ; and acquired content including The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl and a range of movies. On 1 November 2022, in the lead up to the launch of ITVX, the encryption was dropped on ITV2 HD at around 11am that day and so became free to air. Later that day, Freesat data had been added to ITV2 HD, indicating that
684-455: A Millionaire? , Gladiators , CD:UK , Don't Try This at Home , Trisha , This Morning , Loose Women and My Wonderful Life , American acquisitions such as Judge Judy , The Jerry Springer Show , The Late Show with David Letterman and Maggie Winters , omnibus editions of ITV soaps Emmerdale , Coronation Street , The Bill and Home and Away and a Saturday football results service called Football First , which
798-570: A brief period surrounding the Granada and Carlton merger in which CITV's budget was slightly increased again by £7.5 million, a third round of cuts took place due to the perceived rising costs of original production and the imminent effects on advertising revenues from a ban by Ofcom on 'junk food' advertising within children's schedules from 2007, as well as increasing competition from CBBC and numerous other digital children's channels for new programmes (especially imported cartoons, typically from
912-458: A chance of spending the prize pot of 50,000 euros, and Tell Me Everything , a mental health themed drama series, would be two of the first ITV2 shows to debut on their new streaming service ITVX before getting terrestrial slots, which eventually came in April 2023 and June 2023 respectively. In June 2022, ITV2 picked up a number of American drama series, primarily teen and family dramas from
1026-412: A common, stylized set known as "Network Control", which allowed the presenter to be joined by guests in the studio for interviews. The exterior of this fictitious location also featured in the animations and stings. Technical considerations often left the system flawed. With each programme coming from a different playout source (usually from that of the originating ITV company, i.e. if the first programme
1140-544: A deal with ITV Digital – on 27 July 2001. By the end of its life, it had lost nearly all of its Scottish programmes and mainly simulcast ITV2, but covered the ITV2 graphic with an opaque S2 graphic. UTV2 was a television station broadcast by Ulster Television on Digital Terrestrial Television in Northern Ireland. It was launched in 1999 as TV You . The programming consisted primarily of simulcasts with
1254-511: A full-day average of 33,000 viewers and a 2.5% share of the child audience. This put it ahead of other channels Cartoon Network (20,000, a 1.5% share), Boomerang (28,000 a 2.1% share), and Nickelodeon (26,000 a 2.0% share). The channel peaked at 4:30 pm with Bratz gaining 51,000 viewers and a 3.6% share. The channel took a 0.2% audience share in its first week compared to: CBBC 0.6%, Cartoon Network 0.4%, Boomerang 0.4%, and CBeebies 1.4%. Its overall ratings share for March 2006
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#17327719395471368-491: A great deal of flexibility; timings could be altered, schedule changes reflected, and breakdowns dealt with in a continuous manner. In 1988, the format was refreshed again with a new single presenter, Mark Granger, replacing Terzza and Shore, in a smaller, more basic studio set which included in-vision monitors showing the VT clock of the next scheduled item. On 3 April 1989, the independent production company Stonewall Productions won
1482-494: A joint venture. Charles Allen, chief executive of ITV plc, claimed to not believe in ITV creating a new channel by itself in a "over-populated market", whilst the network held talks with Nickelodeon and Disney . On 11 April 2005, ITV announced they had entered into a partnership with Nickelodeon to launch a free-to-air channel dubbed "INK" (ITV Nickelodeon Kids). The venture would allow the two companies to share programmes across each other's networks. However, on 14 July 2005, it
1596-472: A marathon of archive programming, officially known as the Old Skool Weekend . A new look was introduced on 14 January 2013 to coincide with ITV's corporate rebranding. CITV adopted a "yellowy-orange" logo with cartoon idents that "burp and fart, and do other things kids love", as well as child voiceovers. On 22 February 2016, the channel extended its on-air hours to 9pm. Following its move from
1710-464: A month of consistently low ratings, it was moved to around 2am each morning, with Bob's Burgers returning on 4 July 2022. Despite this incident, in January 2023, ITV2 would later stop airing Bob's Burgers altogether and replace it with Superstore , a programme which ITV2 used to air until September 2022 when it was replaced by Secret Crush . After another three months of low ratings, this decision
1824-533: A new Sunday morning strand was also introduced prior to the May revamp, with live in-vision presentation launching for it later that year in September - outside broadcasts additionally occurred on occasion. By then coming fully under Carlton Television 's branding, Central retained the contact to produce CITV for a further two years in 1999, successfully seeing off two rival bids from other ITV companies. Presentation
1938-634: A new children's hub on the ITVX streaming service, ITVX Kids , previously announced to be an eventual replacement for the CITV channel. At 9:00pm on 1 September 2023, the channel ceased broadcasting, with a promotional loop informing viewers of the move to ITVX. At around 9:02pm, the ITVX loop started airing with a screenbug. On 2 September 2023, the children's block was moved to feature every morning on ITV2 during breakfast time, from 05:00am to 09:00am. However, it
2052-462: A preview video loop running from late February 2006 until the launch. The channel launched on 11 March 2006 at 9:25am, with a simulcast of Holly and Stephen's Saturday Showdown being the first programme to air following a countdown graphic. It initially launched on Freeview Channel 75, Homechoice (now known as TalkTalk TV ), and Telewest Channel 734, and was added to Sky Channel 624 on 8 May 2006 and NTL Channel 76/602 on 6 June. Additionally,
2166-480: A proposal which ultimately fell apart due to the need for a change in the law and support from the Office of Fair Trading . Around the same time, greater emphasis was placed on viewer engagement with the launch of a CITV text messaging service, interactive online vote events, and a new pre-school sub-strand also introduced under the name "Telly Tots", which replaced the in-vision presentation between 3:20 and 3:40pm with
2280-448: A result of the shift towards older audiences, preschool programming was also revamped, with numerous preschool shows such as Tots TV , Wizadora , The Riddlers , Potamus Park , The Blobs and The Caribou Kitchen , which aired weekly (and in some cases, twice-weekly), decommissioned as part of the revamp airing their final episodes between late 1997 and August 1998, in favour of newer programmes designed to be stripped daily in
2394-423: A result, Plus was permanently closed down, with its EPG slot taken by ITV3. On 10 October 2006, ITV announced the launch of a one-hour timeshift service of ITV2, ITV2+1. The channel launched on 30 October 2006 along with ITV3 +1. In November 2006, ITV2 commissioned its first soap opera, Echo Beach . The series was to be interlinked with ITV1's comedy-drama Moving Wallpaper . In the end however, Echo Beach
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#17327719395472508-480: A rotating team of presenters consisting of Clive Warren , Jeanne Downs , Jerry Foulkes , and large puppet Scally the Dog (which was first introduced during Granger's final few months under Central). Central won back the contract to produce the continuity links from 9 April 1991, choosing to revert to a small in-vision studio using only one regular presenter, Tommy Boyd , and use their own new branding package. During
2622-409: A select few series sourced from independent production companies. In July 2009, ITV announced CITV was the only channel among its portfolio to have an increased budget. Emma Tennant, the then-controller of CITV, told a children's Showcomotion conference that "the commissioning budgets for all channels next year are going to be smaller, except CITV, which is growing – but it will not necessarily spend
2736-446: A separate CITV digital channel to open in 2001. CITV strands had already been broadcast for a short period on the then-new ITV2 . In 2001, CITV's budget was cut by 17% due to the advertising recession, leading to CITV controller Janie Grace publicly criticising Carlton and Granada Television , by that time the main controlling forces in the network, for underinvestment in ITV's children's service. Grace went further and complained to
2850-434: A target of 520 hours in 2002, and to extend their range for the inclusion of more factual and topical series, as well as mixed entertainment and drama. Once again, concerns about CITV and its structure were highlighted by Angus Fletcher, president of Jim Henson Television Europe, and Anne Wood , founder of Ragdoll Productions , as it could only earn money from a then-unreliable advertising market, unlike BBC Worldwide , where
2964-491: A uniform service. While free-to-air, it was marketed alongside their own subscription based ONdigital platform. Other ITV licensees, SMG, UTV and GMTV launched their own services in the space (see below). ITV2 was announced in May 1998, and the channel's original controller was Brian Barwick . ITV2 launched at 7:00pm on 7 December 1998. The first programme was an hour-long introductory programme called It Takes Two , presented by Gabby Logan and Vinnie Jones . Billie Piper
3078-465: A variety of animated characters and settings. Ryde additionally had creative input into on-screen promotions devised alongside producer-director Tony Jopia, and occasionally appeared on-screen. On 6 September 1993, the strand was extended to start at 3:30pm, a move made possible by shifting ITV's lunchtime pre-school programming broadcasts at 12:10pm to mid-afternoon. Around the same time, Children's ITV began to be informally referred to as CITV. However,
3192-464: Is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels , a division of ITV plc . It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households. The channel is primarily aimed at the 15/18–34 age group, just like BBC Three , E4 and Sky Max and
3306-551: Is a list of the six most watched shows on ITV2, based on Live +28 data supplied by BARB up to 10 January 2019. Before Love Island' s successful return, the highest rated show on the channel was episode 7.01 of Celebrity Juice , starring Phillip Schofield , on 9 February 2012. ITV2 won Channel of the Year at the Broadcast Digital Awards in 2007 and again in 2013. It was also named Non-Terrestrial Channel of
3420-424: Is complete without us being able to play in the cable and satellite world. In fact, we can't not do this and ultimately survive as a kids player in the future". ITV director and former CITV controller Nigel Pickard additionally admitted the network's output for children had become "a minnow in a sea of twenty channels". In early 2004, ITV finally confirmed it had greenlit the launch of a children's channel, but as
3534-575: Is known for American programming such as adult animations Family Guy , American Dad! and Bob's Burgers ; repeats of recently aired episodes of soap operas and other entertainment programming from ITV such as Coronation Street , Emmerdale , Family Fortunes and Catchphrase ; 60-second entertainment news bulletin FYI Daily , which airs in-between films; original comedy such as Celebrity Juice and Plebs , and reality formats such as Big Brother and Love Island . Prior to
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3648-509: The ITC , claiming CITV was unlikely to fulfil its range of programming commitments in expensive genres like drama the following year. In an attempt to combat this, Grace considered commissioning more lower-cost productions such as video diary documentaries. Grace also sought support from the ITC for the creation of a separate CITV Ltd company, which would allow more children's output to be made in-house -
3762-739: The UEFA Euro 2020 match between England and the Czech Republic . In November 2021, the channel moved into the true crime genre with The Social Media Murders , a three-part documentary series with a different case examined every night, over three days. A second series debuted on ITVX in March 2023 with repeats on ITV1 . In March 2022, ITV announced that their new reality game show Loaded in Paradise , which sees teams in Greece trying to win
3876-477: The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey . On 7 October 2022, the ITV2 Twitter and YouTube accounts were replaced by ITVX accounts in order to streamline the ITV channels for an upcoming rebrand. This came into place on 15 November 2022. In March 2023, it was announced that ITV would be closing its children's channel CITV after seventeen years (and forty years as a strand on ITV1) later in
3990-563: The "Children's" was not removed from the logo until Monday 2 September 1996, accompanying the introduction of a digital on-screen graphic (DOG). Presentation for the service was relocated in 1997 when Central moved into newer, smaller studios at Gas Street Studios in Birmingham. A heavily revamped live in-vision service and logo were introduced on Tuesday 26 May 1998 by the new controller of CITV output, Nigel Pickard , who had replaced Airey's successor Vanessa Chapman in January. With
4104-456: The 1991–1993 era, greater relevance was being placed throughout television on promotional trailers as a way of effectively detailing areas of the schedule to viewers who might not know about them; consequently, the 1993 invitation to tender for the provision of the Children's ITV service specified a minimum number of high quality trailers that the successful applicant were required to create over
4218-570: The 2006 FIFA World Cup. The weekend daytime sports coverage broadcast on ITV4. On 20 June 2016, ITV2 simulcast ITV's coverage of a UEFA Euro 2016 match between England and Slovakia . In September 2020. ITV2 broadcast the British Touring Car Championship rather than ITV4 as the channel was broadcasting both the Tour De France and World Series of Darts, and ITV3 broadcast ITV Racing. It was repeated in 2021 for
4332-527: The BBC1 announcer booth at BBC Television Centre , later dubbed "The Broom Cupboard", Phillip Schofield provided links between the programmes. This format of a small self-op continuity studio using one single presenter (and an occasional puppet) continued in largely the same format until 1993, but was broadcast live and allowed for a looser, more relaxed style of presentation than the rival Children's ITV service. Children's ITV went live in early June 1987. Using
4446-571: The CITV branding. The new children's strand replaces teleshopping and re-runs of shows including World's Funniest Videos and Love Bites . Children's shows featured on the new breakfast time block include Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous and Scooby-Doo . Plans for a standalone CITV digital channel were first put in motion and reported as far back as 2000, but were placed on hold indefinitely following its budget cuts in 2001. When Steven Andrew became controller of children and youth programming at ITV plc in 2003, he stated that "No kids strategy
4560-748: The European Union/EEA through ALIA in Luxembourg. From 11 January 2011, ITV2 +1 on the Freeview platform has changed its broadcasting hours to 7:00 pm until 4:00 am On 1 June 2011, an additional hour was added in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, allowing ITV2 +1 to start at 6:00 pm On 2 August 2011, ITV2 +1 began to broadcast 24 hours a day on Freeview across the UK, using an eleventh stream created on mux A. As part of
4674-672: The ITC contended in its 2002 performance review that CITV had "sustained an impressive schedule", gave "factual material a fresh look", and "continued to produce good dramas". In-house promotions additionally maintained graphics refreshes, and presentation producers Sid Cole and Martyn Fox took the strand on tour at theme parks during the summer months of 2001 and 2002. Soon after CITV celebrated its 20th anniversary in January 2003, Grace left her post, just before her predecessor and former Television South colleague Nigel Pickard became ITV's new overall Director of Programmes. Pickard pledged to produce 80 more hours of children's programming against
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4788-400: The ITV network was briefly branded as Watch It! , which started on 29 December 1980, and was presented live by the duty continuity announcer in each ITV region. The notion of networking children's continuity was first suggested within ITV as far back as the early 1970s, but with fierce regional identities prevalent – including scheduling, presentation, and programming – the idea stalled until
4902-500: The ITV2 station shown in England, Wales and the Scottish Borders , although they did also use archive broadcasts from UTV . UTV2 closed on 22 January 2002 following a deal with ITV Digital and was replaced by the national variant. When the channel launched, the logo was very similar in style to the ITV logo at the time and ITV were worried the channel looked just like an extension of ITV and did not offer anything new. It
5016-502: The ITVX loop since its official September closure. Programming between 6 and 9:25am was controlled by ITV Breakfast (previously GMTV ), who, having rebranded the vast majority of their GMTV children's output as CITV, used the space to simulcast their programming at weekends on the ITV network and CITV Breakfast on weekdays. ITV took over at 9:25am, controlling the rest of the day's programming. When it first launched, GMTV used to sell all
5130-488: The Pull was created by Vine comedian Daniel "Dapper Laughs" O'Reilly . The show was criticised for promoting violence against women and dubbed by one paper as "a rapist's almanac". Due to these criticisms, an online petition for the show's cancellation reaching 68,210 signatures and a sexist joke glorifying rape said by O'Reilly during one of his live shows, ITV chose not to commission a second series. A subsequent live tour
5244-713: The UPC Ireland line-up on 20 December 2011. Virgin Media One and its sister channel Virgin Media Two already hold carriage agreement to air certain ITV content within the Republic of Ireland, alternatively UTV is available within the Republic. ITV2 is available along with ITV3 and ITV4 within Switzerland , all three channels are available on Swisscom TV and UPC Cablecom . ITV2 is registered to broadcast within
5358-566: The United States). In summer 2006, ITV shut down its in-house children's programming unit as part of ITV's then on-going process of restructuring ITV Productions, publicly blaming the closure on the competitive production environment. The closure and confirmation that the network were seeking to lobby Ofcom in an effort to reduce its required children's programming hours saw CITV controller Estelle Hughes resign. Despite this, ITV denied any intention of ditching its children's programming from
5472-618: The West Midlands edition of Central News . This allowed more room for a larger, specially stylised set, created by prop manufacturers Dorans Propmakers. Despite indicating he had more work to do in interviews, Pickard left his role at CITV in June 2000 for the BBC, where he would go on to launch the CBBC and CBeebies channels. Prior to leaving ITV, Pickard had begun floating the idea of
5586-503: The Year at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2007. In a 2009 episode of Screenwipe , Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker criticised the channel's programming as being "nihilistic worthlessness" and called it "a monument to cultural death" and "frighteningly meaningless." In 2014, the channel was subject to a controversy about one of its shows. Dapper Laughs: On
5700-401: The additional money on original commissions". It was made clear that due to tight budgets, the slightly increased spend could nonetheless simply lead to more acquisitions rather than new original programmes being commissioned. On 2 November 2009, the CITV channel was relaunched with a new logo and visual identity to match ITV1 as part of ITV plc's corporate look. The channel's pre-school strand
5814-463: The aforementioned appeal was produced for the channel. Both programmes were produced in-house by ITV Studios . The channel's promotions team headed by Dave Hickman additionally continued to produce original short-form content, such as the BAFTA -award-winning Share a Story campaign. On the weekend of Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 January 2013, the channel celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of its brand with
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#17327719395475928-514: The airtime for the channel, making it the first ITV plc-owned channel not to be sold by the in-house sales team. Airtime sales were later taken back in-house by ITV. Some of the channel's most notable programming has been specially commissioned by CITV, such as Horrid Henry , Mr. Bean: The Animated Series , Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids , Thunderbirds Are Go , and Sooty . A number of other programmes are sourced from different broadcasters internationally. The CITV channel launched with
6042-411: The analogue switch off, with space left over for new channels. While strictly speaking this space belonged to each regional contractor for use within their own region, ITV had undergone a series of buyouts earlier in the decade; the three players operating the majority of the network, Granada , Carlton , and United News & Media , jointly launched ITV2 in 1998 to be broadcast to most of the country as
6156-511: The axing of its original afternoon slot in late 2006, a CITV programming block on the ITV network continued to air on weekend mornings from 6:00 am to 9:25 am as part of the ITV Breakfast time slot. CITV did not have a +1 simulcast , unlike the rest of ITV's portfolio of channels. Additionally, the channel was only simulcast in HD on Sky online and Sky Glass . On 22 July 2023, ITV launched
6270-470: The changes, ITV2 +1 swapped slots on Sky's electronic programme guide with Men & Motors , resulting in the timeshift channel making a significant jump from channel 184 to 131. It is now Sky 218. ITV2 was made available on Freeview in the Channel Islands on 29 February 2012, a few months after ITV plc bought Channel Television from Yattendon Group plc . In February 2014, ITV2 announced it
6384-694: The channel broadcasts currently. Despite this, the channel was launched to target a younger, more male audience. Much of the original content in its launch schedule was current affairs related programming fronted by ITV newscasters. Katie Derham presented a weekly media analysis programme called Wide Angle , John Suchet fronted a weekly current affairs discussion programme called Who, What, Why , and Trevor McDonald presented an interview series, Trevor McDonald Meets... . These three programmes all ran on Sunday nights. There were repeats of popular ITV programmes including Midsomer Murders , Inspector Morse , A Touch of Frost , Heartbeat , Who Wants to Be
6498-600: The channel in 2013, ITV reintroduced these shows away from CITV under the LittleBe strand on ITVBe in September 2018. From 2019 until its 2022 closure by the UK Government , the BFI 's three-year Young Audiences Content Fund pilot scheme provided grants for additional content on CITV alongside its small remaining investment into commissions. On Monday 19 September 2022, due to the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II ,
6612-482: The channel itself in 2023, with the final regular children's TV slot on ITV ending just before 08:25 on Sunday 27 August 2023. The move came 40 years and eight months after children's programmes on the ITV network were first brought under the Children's ITV brand. On 2 September 2023, the morning after the closure of the CITV channel, ITV2 launched a new breakfast time block from 5am to 9am everyday with shows featured on ITVX Kids on ITVX . Currently, this block retains
6726-416: The channel simulcasted CITV Breakfast (previously known as GMTV2, originally broadcast on ITV2 , then ITV4 ) on weekdays between 6am and 9:25am. The channel was broadcast daily from 6:00am–6:00pm, although throughout 2007 ended earlier at 12:30pm on weekends to make way for sports coverage on ITV4. Its launch coincided with a full visual identity rebrand; though out-of-vision voiceover announcements remained,
6840-431: The channel was an episode of The Rubbish World of Dave Spud titled 'Moonbreaker'. The channel then closed shortly afterwards with a loop and caption card informing its viewers that its content could now be seen on ITVX. On 1 October 2023, CITV's 602 Freesat slot was removed, exactly one month after the closure. In late February 2024, CITV's live streams on ITVX and other remaining platforms were removed, after repeating
6954-537: The channel will be made available on Freesat soon. On 8 November 2022 the HD version replaced the SD version on Freesat channel 113. S2 was a television station broadcast throughout the Scottish and Grampian ITV regions by SMG plc , the holder of the Scottish and Grampian region ITV franchises. S2, which aired on the digital terrestrial platform, was launched 30 April 1999 and closed just over two years later – as part of
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#17327719395477068-697: The channel's normal programming was replaced by ITV London's feed This was in contrast to CBBC and CBeebies, which did not carry the BBC's coverage. On 10 March 2023, ITV plc announced that it would close the CITV channel in the autumn, with a phased migration of ITV's children's programming moving to ITVX Kids set to launch on 22 July, on its streaming service ITVX . ITVX launched the ITVX Kids FAST channel on 12 July 2023. CITV officially ceased broadcasting at 9:00pm on 1 September 2023. The channel's remaining promos were notably adjusted to promote ITVX prior to its closure. The last programme to air on
7182-453: The club's nickname the Toon . The channel's yellow and blue idents changed to black and white, to match the club's colours. In line with the corporate rebranding of ITV, ITV2 received a new look on 14 January 2013. The channel's slogan became "the home of infectious entertainment", and received a "hot red" version of the logo and red on-screen identity including new idents. ITV2 presentation
7296-493: The concept and title and passed them to Grant Cathro and Lee Pressman, already established at Thames Television as the writers of T-Bag and creators of Mike and Angelo , to develop Spatz as a sitcom . While updating the setting to a standard fast food restaurant, the name Spatz was retained, with the writers noting that it suggested spats or disagreements. Series 1 of Spatz was a co-production between Thames Television and Canada 's YTV . From Series 2 onwards, Spatz
7410-403: The constituent programmes. The networking arrangements were similar to those already in place for the transmission of schools programmes – the links were played out from Central and the component programmes came from the supplying companies. Children's ITV went to air on Monday 3 January 1983, between 4 and 5:15pm every weekday afternoon, the extra 15 minutes being filled by a repeat of one of
7524-457: The contract to produce and revamp the Children's ITV presentation . Stonewall Productions was headed up by Michael Jackson, a Central staffer who used his expertise to put a successful application together. Whereas Central had restricted links to the station's former in-vision presentation studio, Stonewall chose not to use a fixed set, but instead presented links from various areas of Central's headquarters at Broad Street in Birmingham, utilising
7638-560: The contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios. In 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity. Nine years later, the operations moved to ITV Granada's MediaCityUK studios in Salford. In 2006, CITV launched as a digital channel on Freeview. The channel primarily ran repeated ITV content and acquisitions daily from 6:00am to 9:00pm. Following
7752-543: The decision to end the talks as a "mutual backing away". ITV officially revealed their independent plans for a channel in August, although no launch window was given, it was confirmed that it would timeshare with ITV4 , which was scheduled to launch on 1 November. On 16 December 2005, it was announced that the ITV News Channel , which by then had downgraded its hours due to the launch of ITV4, would close down at
7866-414: The digital rights to children's programming", it was again pushed back by another four weeks. Promotions for the channel began on 20 February, including an online countdown clock, running to the channel's launch date. As had become standard for Freeview channel launches, the channel was allocated an EPG number well before transmission started. Initially, a static 'coming soon' graphic was shown, followed by
7980-484: The end of January 2006 to make way for the launch of the CITV channel in February. A few days later, ITV announced the closure had been brought forward to 23 December, with the channel effectively ceasing operations that day and leaving ITV4's downtime unoccupied until February. The CITV channel's launch was pushed back to 11 March in February 2006. As a result of a "comprehensive" rebranding and problems with "clearing
8094-435: The expiry of a carriage agreement between UPC and ITV. UPC Ireland claim that ITV is not in a position to renegotiate the deal because ITV had struck a deal with another channel provider to provide it with exclusive rights to air certain content from the channels. Conversely, UPC Ireland also claims to have been in discussions right up to the last moment to continue broadcasting the channels. ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 were restored to
8208-620: The former Granada studios to MediaCityUK in 2012, and several rounds of redundancies in the years prior, CITV's dedicated in-house promotions and presentation unit was axed in November 2016. All remaining creative responsibilities involving its content were handed to personnel in charge of other ITV channels. At the same time, ITV abandoned its programming director role specifically for children's television last occupied by Jamila Metran, leaving existing channel and genre teams to direct CITV's output. After removing all pre-school programming from
8322-409: The idents were made up of a mix of shades of green to match the channel's logo. In 2008, the channel received another new look. The green logo was kept but edited. The channel now had a new 3D logo to try to make the channel look more modern and appealing to a younger audience. During Newcastle United 's run in the 2004–05 UEFA Cup , the channel was rebranded as ITV Toon on matchdays, referring to
8436-463: The late 1970s, when the IBA began to express concern that most ITV shows for children were not consistent or fully networked. On Thursdays, the ITV regions were able to broadcast whatever programmes they wished; many non-children's programmes appeared, such as Looney Tunes . In December 1980, ITV announced its first concerted effort at a more coherent approach to children's output, with the introduction of
8550-440: The late 1990s and 2000s, for daytimes including re-runs of One Tree Hill , Hart of Dixie and The O.C. as well as the sports drama All American , which had replaced Bob's Burgers in its 7 pm timeslot. Subsequently ITV2 has also picked up Dawson's Creek , Veronica Mars and Chuck . Later additions have included Charmed and Gilmore Girls . All American was unsuccessful in its 7pm slot and so after
8664-410: The latter were unable to receive the channel on Freeview unless they could receive transmissions from England. ITV's closure of its in-house children's programming production unit in 2006 had coincided with a "commissioning freeze", leaving only repeats and a number of unaired new productions for scheduling on the channel. A conclusion of this was confirmed on 7 March 2008, alongside the first renewals of
8778-413: The latter. Andrew returned focus to the possibility of launching a separate CITV channel, which until then had been put on hold indefinitely by the 2001-02 budget cuts. On-screen, various changes to the in-vision presentation team saw no less than eight host additions and replacements over the course of four years, and a September 2003 branding refresh coincided with a reduction in studio space and time for
8892-418: The launch of Channel 4 in 1982, the name "ITV2" had sometimes been used to refer informally to an envisioned second commercial network in the UK . However, the name resurfaced in the late 1990s for very different reasons. The launch of digital terrestrial television services in the UK saw each existing analogue terrestrial broadcaster given a slice of bandwidth with which to carry their existing service after
9006-429: The launch of ITV3 in 2004, and the launch of ITV4 the year later saw ITV2 ditch sports coverage, except on certain occasions as overspill. In June 2004, ITV plc announced that they were going to double the channel's programme budget and would add more American series and movies. On 1 November 2004, in an attempt to launch ITV3 on Sky, ITV2 moved from 175 to 118 on Sky after ITV plc bought GSkyB for £10 million. As
9120-478: The likes of Teletubbies , Tweenies , and Bob the Builder became key earners for the corporation via merchandising and licencing. Former BBC Children's and Granada Kids producer Steven Andrew took over from Grace as ITV's controller of children and youth programming, overseeing the merger of Carlton and Granada's children's departments he had previously called for prominently whilst serving as director of
9234-435: The network's schedule altogether. By January 2007, CITV's weekday afternoon strand on the main ITV network had nonetheless permanently ended, making the recently launched CITV channel the main outlet for ITV children's programming. A simulcast of the CITV channel was broadcast on ITV during weekend mornings, continuing after the brand's original weekday afternoon strand was axed. These simulcasts were later dropped alongside
9348-436: The network's subcommittee on children's productions across its regions was superseded in favour of one controller of children's and daytime programming at the newly established ITV Network Centre, a role first taken up by Dawn Airey . Soon after assuming control of Children's ITV, Airey dropped its in-vision presentation - beginning from 15 February 1993, Steve Ryde instead provided live out-of-vision continuity links featuring
9462-514: The new Watch It! block each weekday from 4:15pm to 5:15pm, after the IBA continued to emphasize issues. Watch It! was conceived by the promotions department at ATV, with the implementation of the branding differing from region to region, thus it was always transmitted locally and never provided on a network basis. ATV provided different animations each season, to freshen up what was available to each company. Most regions would use their own station announcers during Watch It! airtime. Shortly after
9576-399: The preschool programmes shown at lunchtime the same day. Initially featuring a different presenter each month (usually from children's television, e.g. Matthew Kelly , who became the strand's original presenter whilst also hosting Madabout ), the links were pre-recorded in advance in a small studio at a London facility called Molinare, using a single locked-off camera. The first set design
9690-418: The refresh and his subsequent commissioning of the highly-popular SMTV Live , Pickard sought to reinvigorate the strand with more live entertainment content for an older pre-teen and teenage audience, such as The Top 10 of Everything and Mad for It , an area of the service which had been given less prominence for some time due to ITV allocating its spend on other means such as Formula One coverage . As
9804-399: The refresh was intended to bring back "the kind of brash children's ITV of more than a decade ago". On 5 February 2008, ITV4 extended its broadcast hours to stay on-air around the clock. As a consequence, the CITV channel moved to the space on multiplex A on Freeview originally held by ABC1 from English and Scottish transmitters and S4C from Welsh transmitters, which meant that viewers of
9918-516: The restaurant's kind-hearted manager. Vas Blackwood , Stephanie Charles, Jonathan Copestake, Sue Devaney , Joe Greco, Katy Murphy , Ling Tai and Samantha Womack appeared as Spatz restaurant employees. Guest stars included David Harewood , Rhys Ifans , Gary Lineker , Danny John-Jules and Nicholas Parsons . Spatz was devised by Andrew Bethell as a drama for teenagers set in a 1930s themed burger bar, so named because spats might have been worn there. Alan Horrox at Thames Television bought
10032-481: The rights to broadcast US animated comedy Family Guy , which had previously been airing on competing youth channel BBC Three . At the same time, ITV also bought the rights to American Dad! , The Cleveland Show and Bordertown . They began airing on ITV2 on 29 February 2016. When sport was moved to ITV4, this meant no sports would air on ITV2. However, ITV4 was an evening only service and normally ITV2 would broadcast weekday daytime sports, including games from
10146-420: The service. By 31 August 2004, all in-vision continuity was replaced by an out-of-vision voice-over once more (provided by promotions producer Tim Dann ), while the newly-formed ITV plc announced the eventual closure of its presentation and transmission facilities in Birmingham, signalling the end of CITV presentation from Central. Presentation was fully relocated to Granada in Manchester by early 2005. After
10260-492: The small presentation studio at their Broad Street studios – which had become available since in-vision continuity for the Central region was dropped – former Central announcers Gary Terzza and Debbie Shore presented live links from a set built to look like a transmitting station. Although the studio space was small, the designers' use of a plate glass mirror gave the effect of a much larger set. The new live format gave brought
10374-545: The start of new franchises in 1982, some ITV stations raised concerns that Watch It! had not gone far enough to address previous concerns. Central 's Controller of Children's Programmes, Lewis Rudd, suggested a different approach to the presentation method. As a result, the Central Promotions Department came up with the initial concept for Children's ITV. The new look was devised, and links between programmes were pre-recorded using presenters drawn from
10488-440: The style of the BBC's daily preschool programmes (such as Teletubbies and Playdays ), such as Dream Street , Maisy and Mopatop's Shop . Steve Ryde became producer behind the scenes, and selected Stephen Mulhern and Danielle Nicholls as the new in-vision presentation team out of over 900 auditions. CITV was initially broadcast live daily on weekdays from a small studio at Gas Street Studios during this period;
10602-539: The term of the contract. Containing a sizeable promotions department - and a credible reputation for presentation within the ITV network - the contract remained with Central. The Broadcasting Act 1990 and subsequent 1991 ITV franchise auctions also brought about numerous changes to the output and structure of ITV's children's output. Both saw several regions end in-house production of its programming in favour of commissioning independents, such as Tetra Films , which housed children's personnel from Thames. Alongside this,
10716-564: The year and moving its content to ITVX . In addition to this, it was also announced that children's programmes would return to an early morning slot on ITV2. The block launched on 2 September 2023 following the CITV Channel's closure and ran between 5:00 and 9:00 before being changed to 6:00 to 9:00 on 19 November 2023. On 8 October 2023, Big Brother made its debut on ITV, with a special launch show simulcast on both ITV1 & ITV2 watched by more than 2.5 million viewers. The following
10830-451: Was Rainbow , which came from Thames TV , their staff would have to run the tape while the presenter was talking, and would not show the region's skyline ident before the programme's titles) and each link being pre-recorded (played out by Central), things often went wrong on air: programmes would be rolled early and the links would be cut short. Programmes would also fail to appear and the presenter would be left on screen. Because each link
10944-418: Was 0.1%; by April 2006 this had risen to 0.2%, 0.3% followed in May. In August 2006, the channel became the most popular commercial kids channel between 6 am and 6 pm. On 6 January 2013, the CITV channel received its highest viewing figures to date: Danger Mouse , which was shown as part of the "Old Skool Weekend" to celebrate CITV's 30th anniversary, attracted 578,000 viewers. ITV2 ITV2
11058-419: Was a rocket ship and was used for the first few months. The concept was eventually retired, and the set and style of presentation used began to reflect the presenter doing the presenting that month or the programme that they starred in (i.e. Pat Coombs as "The Dressmaker" from Yorkshire Television 's Ragdolly Anna in a room of antiques in April 1984). By 1985, the links were still being recorded, but using
11172-695: Was allocated channel number 211 on Sky. On 6 May 2008 it was announced that ITV2 +1 would swap with Men & Motors on the Sky EPG making a jump from 184 to 131. This channel is often unable to broadcast certain programmes "for legal reasons", but the programme in question might still be listed on the EPG . ITV2 +1 currently resides on Sky channel 218, and is also available on Freeview channel 29 Freesat channel 114 and Virgin TV channel 315. From 29 November 2023, ITV2+1 started going off air at 2am each night on Freeview. This
11286-465: Was also cancelled. In the wake of the scandal, Stewart Lee criticised O'Reilly's Newsnight apology and said "what kind of person gets banned from ITV2? That's like being banned from a pub that's on fire." In October 2024, in the midst of the Israel-Hamas war , an episode of the series Big Brother was edited by the channel to remove all images of a watermelon symbol, which has been used as
11400-402: Was announced that the venture would not go ahead and that ITV would instead launch a children's channel alone. Both parties failed to reach an agreement on the exact structure of the new venture and how it would be branded, with ITV stating "We just got to the point of thinking that it was more sustainable for us to do it ourselves. The deal fizzled out over a period of time". Nickelodeon described
11514-508: Was broadcast on ITV1 instead of ITV2 as was originally planned. ITV2 and its one-hour timeshift channel began broadcasting 24 hours a day on 17 March 2008. The hours formerly held by GMTV2 were moved to ITV4 . GMTV2 programming moved from ITV2 to ITV4. On 20 August 2008, ITV2 unveiled a new look. The logo was given a 3D look, with six new idents . The new look co-incided with a lineup of new programmes including Celebrity Juice , CelebAir , The Fashion Show and No Heroics . ITV2
11628-635: Was due to ITV clearing a Freeview slot, moving ITVBe+1 , ITV3+1 and ITV4+1 to timeshare with ITV2+1. At 2am, ITVBe+1 takes over the bandwidth. ITV2+1 resumes its Freeview programming at 7am. ITV2 HD , a high-definition simulcast of ITV2, launched on 7 October 2010 on Sky channel 225. The channel was initially available through Sky's pay subscription service in a non-exclusive deal, before being added to Virgin Media 's service on 14 March 2013. Original HD programming includes entertainment shows, Britain's Got More Talent , The Xtra Factor and I'm
11742-625: Was eventually reversed, and Bob's Burgers returned to ITV2 for a second time in April 2023. In August 2022, the channel axed its Katherine Ryan presented dating show Ready To Mingle after some episodes in the first series received ratings as low as 60,000 viewers, and picked up the rights to the Big Brother format, launching a teaser trailer for its return to British TV during the Love Island final. On 19 September 2022, ITV2 and other ITV digital channels simulcast ITV's coverage of
11856-482: Was given a refresh on 12 August 2015, with new branding, idents, the introduction of gif style bitesized promos, and a reboot of the channel's social feeds, spanning YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram along with the launch of new ITV2 channels on Snapchat and Tumblr . As part of the refresh, the logo kept its previous state but was changed colour from hot red to turquoise. ITV2 was given another rebrand on 15 November 2022, with new branding and idents along with
11970-421: Was heavily involved in the channel's promotion at launch, with an updated version of the 1966 song It Takes Two sung by her used as the theme song for the launch programme and featured in the original promos for the channel. While ITV2 is now an entertainment channel aimed to a younger audience, at its launch in 1998 it was a mixed genre channel and featured some programmes aimed at much older audiences than what
12084-455: Was later shortened to 6:00am to 09:00am. Shows broadcast are sourced from the ITVX Kids streaming service. This strand has retained usage of the pre-existing CITV branding, following the channel's closure. On 1 October 2023, the CITV channel's 602 Freesat slot was removed, exactly one month after the closure. Before being known as Children's ITV, the timeslot for children's programmes on
12198-530: Was launched on UPC Ireland in the Republic of Ireland on 4 January 2010, marking the first time the channel has been officially available in the country. The channel had already been (and remains) available to Irish viewers on free-to-air satellite for some time, however it is still not listed in the Sky electronic programme guide . On 1 April 2011, ITV2 was removed from UPC Ireland along with ITV3 and ITV4 due to
12312-495: Was produced solely by Thames Television. On 6 January 2013, an episode of Spatz from 1992 ("Tango", the third episode of Series 3) was repeated on CITV as part of its 30th anniversary. This article about a children's television show originating in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . CITV CITV is a British children's morning programming block on ITV2 and formerly
12426-471: Was promoted to ITV1 in 2001 (while maintaining an ITV2 slot) and rebranded as The Goal Rush . Other launch programmes included youth magazine show Bedrock and Soap Fever which taken a look at the UK's major television soap operas. There was also live coverage of the UEFA Champions League among a range of other sports coverage Many of the older skewing drama series were dropped after
12540-402: Was recorded for the slot available, the presenter would hold the final pose for a few moments so that the transmission controller at Central had something to leave on screen just in case. Pre-recording the links also meant that late schedule changes could not be easily referenced. In September 1985, the BBC revamped their own children's presentation with the introduction of Children's BBC. Using
12654-594: Was refreshed several times by their in-house promotions team, with one of the service's longest-lasting visual identities launching on 11 September 1999. Under the design and direction of Carlton's Dave Hickman and Amanda Robinson, 3D animation firm Aldis Animation produced many of the strand's short computer-generated idents and break bumpers. CITV's online presence was additionally expanded, with its first fully-fledged standalone website launched by ITV and web design agency Workhouse on 25 October 1999. Shortly afterwards, in-vision presentation started sharing studio space with
12768-480: Was revamped and renamed "Mini CITV" at the same time. On 9 January 2012, a change in the forward error correction mode on the multiplex allowed CITV to broadcast in Wales on Freeview. On 21 December 2012, the channel aired its first live programme since 2006, a 45-minute CITV special of Text Santa , ITV's Christmas charity appeal. A year later, a series of 10-minute programmes titled Help with Hattitude in aid of
12882-444: Was soon after this that the channel received a complete overhaul along with the other ITV channels in 2006. The channel received a new lime green logo, chosen as ITV thought it had a young fresh feel to it. The channel also received six new idents which all had names beginning with "Too" to relate to the 2 in the channel's name. They were called; "Too Fast", "Too Hot", "Too Cold, "Too Expensive", "Too Glamorous" and "Too Loud". Each of
12996-435: Was to focus more on entertainment programming, specifically drama and comedy panel shows - with reality and lifestyle, such as The Only Way is Essex shifted away from ITV2 to a new reality TV focused channel, ITVBe . This shift was not for long however as in 2015 the revival of Love Island premiered on ITV2, and has since became the channel's flagship programme. On 23 March 2015, it was announced that ITV2 had acquired
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